Sentences with phrase «many communities of faith»

To put things in context, Bell followed that quote up by expressing his disappointment when communities of faith discourage people from asking questions about religious texts or beliefs.

«I could not be more proud to stand with President Trump as he continues to stand shoulder to shoulder with communities of faith,» evangelical preacher Paula White told Religion News Service, «This order is a historic action, strengthening the relationship between faith and government in the United States and the product will be countless, transformed lives.»

«I could not be more proud to stand with President Trump as he continues to stand shoulder to shoulder with communities of faith,» she told Religious News Service, which first reported on the initiative.

In so doing, they undermine their effectiveness, and betray serious misunderstandings within the community of faith.

Then the canon, the listed set of writings making up the Bible, is recognized by the community of faith as the written word of God, possessing final authority for faith and life.

We can not decide to revert to a community of faith, because the decision requires a self - consciousness that contradicts the un-self-consciousness of such community.

They go on to state that there were many anti-Christs, who were present at the time of the writing of their epistle; and they state plainly that these anti-Christs were once among us (were members of their community of faith), but they departed from among them.

Though we can not revert to the premodern community of faith, we can reestablish our communion with that community.

The isolation of Scripture study from the believing community of faith (nuda scriptura) disregards the Holy Spirit's work in guiding the witness of the people of God to scriptural truths, and leaves the interpretation of that truth vulnerable to unfettered subjectivism.

We are endeavoring to discover if a community of faith can exist purely for the good of others.

As Evangelicals and Catholics fully committed to our respective heritages, we affirm together the coinherence of Scripture and tradition: tradition is not a second source of revelation alongside the Bible but must ever be corrected and informed by it, and Scripture itself is not understood in a vacuum apart from the historical existence and life of the community of faith.

As human rights lawyers, independent writers, journalists, and Tiananmen survivors joined us aboard our vessel, our community of faith also became a thorn in the regime's side.

The better way is for people to be connected on a personal level to a community of faith.

While the big lie people in DC believe is that they can change the world on their own, Graham argued that changing their neighborhood — both locally and globally — is best attempted through the sustainable, Spirit - empowered work of a community of faith.

This most recent theology no longer addresses the doubts and questions of faith raised by the community of faith but the doubts and questions of the contemporary cultured ignorers of faith.

This perspective has ramifications for the counseling ministry of the church, for sermons and Christian education and for the life of Christians in communities of faith.

The goal is to keep people from being anonymous, going from church to church with needs, and never connecting with a community of faith.

dissidens, if you're going to speak within and to the community of faith, please try to do it in a constructive, helpful, respectful manner.

«I came to realize that without a vessel for beliefs, without an unequivocal commitment to a particular community of faith,» he wrote later, «I would be consigned at some level to always remain apart.»

For the community of faith, Jesus Christ is appointed priest forever, like Melchizedek, without beginning or end (Hebrews 7:1 - 10).

«At the center of biblical faith,» says Walter Brueggemann in a sermon on this passage, «is a command from God that curbs economic transactions by an act of communal sanity that restores everyone to proper place in the economy, because life in the community of faith does not consist of getting more but in sharing well.»

Women's stories serve not only as the testing ground for new theological proposals, but also as material for building new theological traditions that revitalize the entire community of faith.

«It's a matter of what you're doing in the community to demonstrate that you are a community of faith and that you care and you take the admonition to love your neighbor seriously,» he says.

What is orthodox gets decided in every generation in very human struggles within the community of faith.

What is orthodox gets decided in very human struggles within the community of faith.

It must be extraordinarily difficult to assemble a community of faith these days.

And we can conceptualize how new communication patterns and technologies can help us link with one another and build communities of faith.

It is the relationship to a community of faith which may make it difficult for a person of one faith to treat scriptures of another faith with the same authority as he or she accords to the scriptures of the faith community to which she or he belongs.

Magic, play, and utopian dreams are the foundation for his future community of faith.64

Only the «sects,» like the Jehovah's Witnesses, have maintained both the vision and the motivation to seek people outside the economic and educational mainstream of the nation and transform the contours of their social realities within a community of faith.

It gives us a way to speak fully and honestly about the work of Jesus without implying anything pejorative about other communities of faith.

The Courage to Be will be enjoyed by many for its spiritual and rhetorical excitements but, divorced from the truth claims, worship, and life of the continuing community of faith, such excitements are but another option on offer in the marketplace of modern spiritualities.

When we release our grip of unforgiveness on those who have failed us, we are free to let God meet those needs in new and healthy ways — through our relationship with Him, through friendships and through our own communities of faith.

Here he quotes Craig Albert: «The Christian faith did not grow in response to a book, but as a response to God's interaction with the community of faith.»

It is worth noticing that different communities of faith have different understandings of the authority of scripture «To most Hindus», writes Stanley Samartha, «the primary authority lies in that which is heard rather than in what is remembered and written down.

It anchors our communities of faith.

And as to solidarity with others, the main thing, certainly, is not the community of faith but revolutionary action.

As members of a community of faith, we miss the point when we refuse to offer guidance in ways that are concrete but not intrusive.

Personal spiritual experience should be balanced by reference to a community of faith and its traditions and to scripture.

He uses sign - acts to establish and maintain relationships of love in and through the community of faith.

There is great comfort for the grieving family in the community of faith in our Church.

However, if the subjects of study are concrete networks of human practices by which communities of faith attempt to respond to God faithfully, and if they are practices which mediate an understanding of God, then the movement of theological schooling is more like an engaged meditative gaze than it is like problem solving.

We who proclaim Christ ought to have enough faith that our Lord is what we claim him to be, to permit such men and women to have, if not full then some limited, participation in Christian life in the community of faith; for we are confident, or we should be confident if we really believe what we say about Jesus, that such fellowship with him in the company of his people will lead them more and more deeply into the true significance of his person.

This means that the lections, though similar in function to preaching, also have a distinctive role as the written record of the community of faith's common memories.

It is essential that leaders in communities of faith learn how to preach, how to counsel and how to manage an organization mostly staffed by volunteers.

The philosopher does not set out to show how the world appears from the perspective of a community of faith, and to some degree, he can free himself from such perspectives.

In these practices, communities of faith attempt to respond faithfully to the God who has been graciously faithful to the world.

Our theological beliefs about the community of faith, the images of God we find meaningful, ethical perspectives based on our understanding of justice and care, and our interpretation of suffering and healing, sin and forgiveness, ground us and guide us in responding to the crises of members of our congregations.

Furthermore, many of the members of the community of faith who engage in such thinking consciously or unconsciously turn away from the convictions nurtured in them by the community while they pursue this thinking.

Using congregation members as resources in this way is not only extremely beneficial, but also reflects the importance of the community of faith as the family of God.