Sentences with phrase «issues confronting christian»

Today the acute issue confronting Christians is whether they can or should extend to those outside the Christian family a similar appreciative and cooperative spirit.

Not exact matches

When christians sit back and try to say that their way is the only way and then when they are confronted with a different view, scream foul... there's an issue.

These men and women were invited to grapple with a massive, urgent issue currently confronting the whole Christian community and contemporary culture — in an ecumenical spirit of worship and dialogue, within an atmosphere of the warm hospitality of a great Christian university.

Nevertheless, the new liberal church will labor to make people confront the issues in the context both of Christian community and of their own individual discipleship.

If we can not afford to reflect seriously about the meaning of Christian faith in relation to new issues that confront us, Christian faith ceases to be the central organizing principle of our thinking and living.

The task of confronting the nonevangelical world over the issue of Biblical authority is being undercut by the desire to challenge fellow evangelicals» notions of inspiration What is distinctively evangelical needs again to be forcefully presented to the wider Christian community.

«First of all, it is not as if this event has suddenly confronted Christian believers with new issues for their faith.

System 4: A curriculum to equip people for mission and to explore the issues that confront Christians in a changing world, such as the newly emerging Shalom resources developed by the United Church of Christ.

A fundamental question that Christians must confront when processing this issue is whether the Church is subject to the laws of civil government.

While recognising that in such an analysis, which targets both Christians and Muslims, we do not have the points for any kind of debate but rather are confronted with a diatribe, nevertheless, I believe that in such a forum as the Gurukul Summer Institute, where an honest spirit of inquiry prevails, and where there is a commitment to a rigorous process of theological exploration, we need to address some of the issues raised.

People of other religious traditions have wrestled with issues similar to those concerning their Christian counterparts when confronting economics and theology.

His use of the writings of T. S. Eliot and Origen demonstrates that the issues which confront the Christian faith are not new.

My perspective is that there are a number of connections that arise both from the issues that confront us as Christians living in a mass media age and from the Bible's insistent message.

The primary issue in my decision to study theology, however, was that of the Christian faith, and the certainty that enables a person to confront nothingness.

The warrant for naming them together, I think, would be that each faces Christian theology with the kind of Troeltschian interpretation of the intellectual and cultural issues that I am suggesting Christians (not confined to theologians) confront in our time.

It is difficult not to admire Leigh's boldness in giving the Christian virtues of selfless generosity, charitable goodwill and quiet passivity to a backstreet abortionist, but by presenting Vera with an almost cartoonlike saintliness from start to finish, Leigh misses an opportunity to engage seriously with the moral complexity of the abortion issue — and some viewers will be left longing for Vera to be a shadier, more difficult figure, like the protagonist of Leigh's far more confronting «Naked» (1993).

CrossBooks, a publisher of Christian Fiction, reaches out to authors and lays out guidelines for writing Christian Fiction with realistic characters confronting gritty issues like abuse and alcoholism.

So there'll be a Christian character faced with issues that confront their faith or there'll be a non-believer who is challenged to consider Christianity.

The issue remains confusing and contentious for many Christians today, as issues of political activism, religious freedom, and civil disobedience confront those seeking to understand this crucial relationship.

As a Christian couple in ministry, we were confronting relational issues every day in the lives of our members and in the church.