Sentences with phrase «know about baptism»

I don't know about baptism but I'd like to exchange bread and wine for cheezits and diet dr pepper for communion.

Not exact matches

Yet for the next several years, through my baptism, my church wedding (yes, to the Christian who gives gifts of underwear), through my continued efforts to write poetry, and even during my first bout of seminary education, I went about my life tense with the secret that I did not know how to pray as I ought.

Really, what I'm saying is that I have no systematic theological step - by - step delineation about baptism but I know I love the very mystery of it, the resurrection of it, the belonging of it, and yes, wait for it, the power of it.

No matter what activity was actually going on in the Corinthian church regarding «the dead», why is the discussion / controversy about baptism and not the «true» means of salvation according to Baptists and evangelicals: an internal belief in Christ; an internal «decision» for Christ?

They know about the anti-Jewish polemics of certain church fathers; about the forced baptisms, especially of children; about the church council decree that sanctioned the removal of such children from their parents; about a papal edict encouraging raids on Jewish synagogues by the faithful; about the expulsion of all Jews from a country like Spain; about Luther's hate language directed against Jews when they did not convert according to his timetable; about the prohibition against Jews living in Calvin's Geneva; and about all the cruelties Christians have felt justified in perpetrating against the people they called «Christ - killers.»

We have known each other for about two years, and though we agree on many basic doctrines of Christianity, we don't agree on everything, and we definitely do not see eye to eye on some central Christian practices like baptism, the Lord's Supper, and church attendance.

Now that we know that Adam and Eve was a myth, their justification for Jesus being crucified is totally gone and their dogmas about grace, salvation, baptism are all shown to be nonsense.

You know the thing that happened throughout all Judaea, beginning from Galilee, after the Baptism that John proclaimed: Jesus of Nazareth — how God anointed him with holy Spirit and power: who went about doing good, and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with him; and we ourselves are witnesses of all that he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem; whom they killed by hanging on a tree.

In any case, we know nothing about him until he left home to join the apocalyptic movement of John by undergoing John's initiation rite, baptism in the Jordan.

If you knew anything about the Christian faith you'd know that it is a pastor's job to use the law and the gospel (including the Sacraments of Baptism and Holy Communion) to keep the believer in faith and lead the non-believer to faith.

«As for the word which He, the Lord of all, sent to the children of Israel, preaching the Gospel of peace through Jesus the Messiah, you know the thing (literally, «the word») that happened through all Judaea, beginning from Galilee after the baptism which John preached; that God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with Holy Spirit and power; and He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with Him.

While the deep symbolism of baptism is still present in the ritual, it is not naturally understood or comprehended by the average Christian, let alone the person who knows little about Jesus and Scripture.

Wesley understood quite well what his Anglican theology of baptism told him about the work of God in the baptized, but he also knew that the adults he now confronted in the cities of England were no longer living out of the grace of baptism.

I just think it would be pretty strange if John showed up today and wanted people to get dunked in our cities toxic river in winter if we knew nothing about baptism.

Mormons are «Christians» with a lot of very strange twists — I know nothing about diapers, but they do believe in retroactive baptism (that is, ater you are dead, and without your permission) and that you are only permanently married in the afterlife if you get married in one of two physical structures, but if you can't get there, you can get married by proxy.

A couple of pastors are explaining the why and how of baptism to a church that is (apparently) filled with new believers who know next to nothing about baptism, why they should get baptized, or what will happen at the baptism.So they created this video and showed it in their worship service.

Since I knew nothing about the industry and had zero experience... it was baptism by fire!