Sentences with phrase «lay upon the church»

For it is as true of us as it was of the Corinthians that we have shamefully lost the knowledge of God and must renew our faith in the resurrection and the claim it lays upon the church of Christ before we can get on with the mission of liberation.

«The apocalyptic end of the war» lay upon the church a responsibility to «preach to modern man the good news of possible salvation.»

As we contemplate the work which Christ has laid upon his church, we who are met here on the Mount of Olives, in sight of Calvary, would take up for ourselves and summon those from whom we come, and to whom we return, to take up with us the cross of Christ, and all that for which it stands, and to go forth into the world to live in the fellowship of his sufferings and by the power of his resurrection.

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The liberal churches need their own particular language of faith to communicate with the cultured despisers of the modern world, in a manner that lays claim upon the self and the community.»

He was bitterly opposed to all organized Churches and said that «Moses, Mohamet, and Jesus can lay as little claim to moral merit, or to the character of the benefactors of mankind, as any three men that ever lived upon the face of the earth....

We are still at war, of course, but the situation of the Church has materially altered, and I suspect that, by comparison to the burden the First Commandment lays upon us today, the defeat of the ancient pantheon, and the elemental spirits, and the demons lurking behind them will prove to have been sublimely easy.

There is no answer as to what actually happened, but we do know that starting from there the church embarked on the far - reaching intellectual enterprise which is the building of a Christian theology, and philosophy of life, upon the foundation thus laid, and that is an unfinished story.

The kerygma in Acts lays emphasis upon the Holy Spirit in the Church as the sign that the new age of fulfilment has begun.

So, when Jesus says: «thou art Peter (petra, a pebble) UPON THIS ROCK I BUILD MY CHURCH (The Church is His Bride, only He can lay claim to it, that is why He says «My Church») and THE VERY GATES OF HELL SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST IT.&CHURCH (The Church is His Bride, only He can lay claim to it, that is why He says «My Church») and THE VERY GATES OF HELL SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST IT.&Church is His Bride, only He can lay claim to it, that is why He says «My Church») and THE VERY GATES OF HELL SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST IT.&Church») and THE VERY GATES OF HELL SHALL NOT PREVAIL AGAINST IT.»

In the nineteenth century the burden of proof lay upon the scholar who saw theological interpolations in historical sources; in the twentieth century the burden of proof lies upon the scholar who sees objective factual source material in the primitive Church's book of common worship.

The complex and pressing demands made upon Protestantism by the rising industrial and urban society have brought with them a renewed awareness of the role of the church as a ministering body in which both lay and ordained ministers are called as servants of the gospel, not only in the church but also in the world.

Those who hear, in the setting of the Church's corporate worship, are summoned, upon each particular occasion, to place themselves within the history which is God's revelation, at the point where it culminates in Jesus Christ, and to lay themselves open to the Word of judgement and of renewal which is spoken there to every human being.

Must the Christian Church in the name of morality lay upon this child the duty to accept that abuse and still honor her father?

The words «God's own» were spoken over you by the Church, the Church of Jesus Christ; God has laid claim upon you through the act of the Church.

Meanwhile, the minister was likely to be completely isolated from the sustaining power and status - giving context of his church, and, thrown into intimate face - to - face contact with his lay people, made dependent upon his own character and something as intangible to most colonists as «the Spirit» for whatever of prestige he could gain and leadership he could give.

Lindbergh's grave is a simple granite slab laid upon lava stones, located in the yard behind the Palapala Congregational Church.