Sentences with phrase «just as baptism»

So just as baptism could be done with a few drops of water, so also the Lord's Supper could be observed with a small bit of bread and a few drops of wine.

Marriage is a «sacrament» just as baptism is.

Not exact matches

Nevertheless, this current situation described earlier makes us reflect, and, as pastors, we are worried about the fact that many people who contract marriage are formally Christians, since they have received baptism, but are not practicing the Christian faith at all; not just liturgically, but also existentially.

The Mormons got this right, and as explained in Corinthians, the modern christian churches have lost the principle of baptism for the dead... and ultimately lost the doctrine of a just God.

As I recall, the sacrament of baptism was for those repenting — not for anyone who just felt like having it.

The topics of repentance and the remission of sins are huge issues within Christian theology, but just as with baptism, these topics are severely misunderstood by Christians when we divorce them from their historical and cultural roots within Judaism.

But for Luther, God works in the Kingdom of Man through vocation, through observable means or «masks,» just as He delivers the Kingdom of God to us by the observable means of baptism and communion.

This is applicable not just to baptism, but to prayer, where some Christians use this phrase as a magical incantation to validate their prayer before God.

So let us all stop arguing about the method, mode, and magic words of baptism, and instead start living for Jesus and loving others like Jesus... just as He commanded us in Matthew 28:19 - 20.

The ritual served as a vehicle for grief, just as communion serves as a vehicle for memory and baptism as a vehicle for renewal.

Just as Mark shows Jesus being claimed at his baptism («This is my beloved Son...»), so we are claimed, signed, branded and sealed at our baptism.

Is it possible that the reason that the Corinthians were so concerned about baptism is that they had been taught by the Apostle Paul and other Christian evangelists that salvation and the promise of the resurrection of the dead and eternal life are received in Baptism, just as orthodox Christians, including Lutherans, have been teaching for almost 2,000 baptism is that they had been taught by the Apostle Paul and other Christian evangelists that salvation and the promise of the resurrection of the dead and eternal life are received in Baptism, just as orthodox Christians, including Lutherans, have been teaching for almost 2,000 Baptism, just as orthodox Christians, including Lutherans, have been teaching for almost 2,000 years??

I believe that with him, just as I am sure he believed that we are «made» Christians by adoption and grace in baptism.

4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

Not the high priest in the temple in Jerusalem or the baptism of John the Baptist in the Jordan River brings the ultimate salvation, but rather keeping Jesus» words, as they are conserved in the Sayings Gospel — to be sure, on the condition that they are really kept, observed, and not just conserved.

I don't think he meant just non-immersion baptism or Christening as we used to call it.

But Matthew here is interested in showing that Jesus is not only the Son of David, and thus the Messiah (through his legal descent from Joseph), but also the supernatural Son of God — not just from his baptism, as Mark 1:11 suggests, but from his birth.

Therefore we have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.

Just as Israel experienced exile in Egypt, baptism in the Red Sea, and wandering in the wilderness, Matthew depicts Jesus as experiencing exile in Egypt, followed by baptism in the Jordan, followed by wandering in the wilderness.

And the Jewish people who heard the message of Peter and who wanted to participate with this arrival of the Kingdom of God in Jesus Christ indicated this desire publicly by receiving the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins, just as others had done with John about three years earlier.

As Francis says, baptism «isn't just some formal ritual; it profoundly changes people, giving them unwavering hope and the strength to forgive and love others.»

It generates questions about what happened, just as water baptism generated these questions in biblical times.

If it is good enough for Jesus to be baptised then its good enough reason for me to as well that was why i wanted to be baptised.He says that it was necessary to fulfill all righteousness verse 15 in that sense he could have been talking of fulfilling the requirements of the law and in Jesus we fulfill the requirements of the law.I do nt believe that it is neccesary step to be saved as some of the gentile believers Peter spoke to received the holy spirit before they were baptised.Its a good picture of the old being washed away and we are raised up as a new person in Christ.When i was baptised in the holy spirit and spoke in tongues it was exactly like a water baptism i felt the water washing over me as it washed i just started speaking in tongues.brentnz

As to baptism and communion, just because these two are probably non-negotiable doesn't make them wrong.

Doing this will generate questions about what happened, and why it was done, just as water baptism generated these questions in biblical times.

If we understand baptism as a «full identification» then passages like Romans 6:4 can have meaning and significance for all people in all cultures at all times; not just for the segment of the world that practices burial.

Romans 6:4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

Through baptism, Paul tells us, «we were indeed buried with him so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead... we too might live in the newness of life» (Rom 6:4).

I don't buy your stretch saying that they are all, «a bond with God and the Holy Spirit of the kind that we find through baptism, communion, and marriage,» and even if I did, you would need to support that marriage falls under that same category as baptism instead of just telling us it does.

Just as we can not choose which family we are born into, we can not choose who God will call into Christ's body in baptism.

Spirit baptism happens automatically as a result of receiving eternal life, and water baptism is just an outward symbol, an outward sign, of what happened to us inwardly.

So just as with the discussion about baptism, this section will progress in a similar fashion.

Just as with baptism, the typical communion service today borders on the mystical and magical.

The baptismal reference, then, is not just to baptism as a salvific event in its covenant pledge but also to baptism as protecting one from evil spiritual forces... One has in this work a massive piece of scholarship that seems to have laid to rest some options for interpreting 1 Pet 3 and certainly must be consulted by anyone working on this passage in the future.

To this divine mother we belong equally at our baptism, not based on our doing, but on our being, and in the bosom of this mother we are nurtured, fed, loved, «just as we are without one plea.»

Just as the sign of Jonah was in Jesus being raised from the dead, so is the sign of Jonah in our being born again through the waters of baptism, and through those waters rising to new life in Christ.

Just as our birth in a particular nation and setting is a constant factor throughout our lives, baptism is the point of departure, the definition of our selves, to which we must constantly return in order to understand who we are and who we are called to be in Christ.

The Baptism of Our Lord in the Jordan This man will always draw crowds; split them too — just as this rock divides the Jordan's flow — attract, repel, become the Shepherd...

The Baptism of Our Lord in the Jordan This man will always draw crowds; split them too — just as this rock divides the Jordan's flow — attract, repel, become the Shepherd who inspires hosannas and the Scapegoat no good citizen of Zion could prefer to bandits like Barabbas.

Just as our physical bodies need the earth to be nourished, so does our spiritual life need the bread and wine of Communion — and the water of baptism — to be nourished.

yes it was enjoyable — OT marked his baptism as an arsenal artillery man — fortunately for us he's coming into his prime and playing international tournaments will increase his self belief, i really hope yesterdays goals don't prove as just a flash in the pan.