Sentences with phrase «instituted sacrament»

The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church states: 1 «Christ announced the necessity of a spiritual regeneration «of water and the spirit» in his conversation with Nicodemus, and it has been commonly held that he instituted the Sacrament either at an unspecified date before His passion or after his resurrection, when he gave the disciples the command to baptise in the Threefold Name.»

I do believe also in the Sanctity of Marriage and that is a life long commitment and God instituted sacrament.

Yet Jesus at the last supper; when he instituted this sacrament, did not refuse Judas the bread and the wine, despite the fact that he knew Judas was his betrayer.

I think that's why Christ instituted the sacraments....

He is not telling them to establish a weekly worship service or to create a rigid liturgy or to institute a sacrament.

Not exact matches

I'm Lutheran and our understanding of the two sacraments we recognize is that both were instituted for the forgiveness of sins.

How would people know where to go to receive Sacraments, [Jesus Christ's instituted means of graces to help sustain us along our journey to our final goal]?

They took the 13th century conviction that sacraments were instituted by Jesus Christ himself to its logical conclusion that the authority for them must be found in the spoken words of Christ.

Nowhere was there a hint of God's revelation to man, of God's saving sacraments or of the hierarchy instituted by Christ to save and direct men and to defend the Church against ravenous wolves.

We need to see, touch, and hear him, which means making ourselves vulnerable to» to suffer, be changed by» his troublesome, indigestible particularity, and that means being subject to the authoritative Scriptures, the sacraments he instituted, and the Church that is his body.

Probably the most familiar description is that of St. Thomas, who borrows St. Augustine's idea that sacraments are outward signs instituted by Christ causing inward grace.

At the Last Supper Christ instituted two sacraments, ordered to each other: the Eucharist and the priesthood.

Priests decide on disagreements over dogma, administer God's forgiveness of sins through the sacrament of confession, and institute the Eucharist at Mass — some of the most important Church activities.

The marks of the true church are «especially the lawful and sincere preaching of the Word of God as it was delivered to us in the books of the prophets and the apostles, which all lead us unto Christ... the only head and foundation of the Church,» and the participation of faithful believers in the sacraments instituted by Christ, worshiping one God with «one faith and one spirit.»

How much more might one prepare for the Lord's Supper, a sacrament instituted by the Lord for his -LSB-...]