Sentences with phrase «many young church»

Jesus knew that Judas was going to take rule over the disciples (the young Church, Jesus had founded and which he loved with infinite love), after He had been captured.

Evangelicals, too, work in partnership with younger churches, in the context of a radically changed Third World.

After these young Churches demonstrate that they can stand on their own spiritually, organizationally, and financially, they cease being «mission territory» and relate to the Roman Curia as do the older local Churches; the bishops of these newly «graduated» local Churches are thus chosen in consultation with the Congregation for Bishops.

Both groups are quite aware of the changes that have taken place in the Third World; both know and respect the young churches in the developing countries; both want to work in partnership with them.

For such a remark completely fails to account for the joyful certainty, courage, confidence and tenacity exhibited by the young Church.

How emboldening and inspiring it is to know older adults who openly mentor millennials as St. Paul mentored Timothy, the young Church leader:

He and two other young church members said Long is family - oriented, a mentor and a respected leader who has helped many families and individuals.

He is noted for his work in the field of Biblical translation, and in particular for two books: Letters to Young Churches and Your God is Too Small.

Laura Sessions Stepp says young church dropouts are tired of being told how they should live their lives.

But every younger church will seek further to bear witness to the same Gospel with new tongues» (International Missionary Council, «The Growing Church: The Madras Series,» Papers Based upon the Meeting of the International Missionary Council, at Tambaram, Madras, India, December 12 - 29, 1938.

The missionaries are careful to teach the young churches biblical principles of authority and organization.

What happens when immigration or refugee movements bring the young church into the very heart of Anglicanism, forming a new expression of it?

Can anyone really account for the audacity, assurance and endurance exhibited by the young Church without admitting that these early Christians were convinced that Jesus really rose from the dead?

But surely, Paul could as easily be arguing the need for a return to the regnant pattern after a false application of Christian freedom in the young church as he could be proclaiming that which was at variance with his culture.

Is it not true that Paul's «purely» theological insights are, on closer inspection, responses to the cultural crises and life situations of young churches facing concrete problems, and that his «purely» practical advice has within it a theological dimension?

At the time, Tchividjian led a young church plant which later merged with Coral Ridge.

So, I started gathering a few other young church planters for mutual learning, accountability, and encouragement.

As a young church planter I wanted a tribe to belong to.

Pastors of an older generation might be scandalised at the admission, but 34 - year - old Smith is at the forefront of a new wave of young church leaders who have grown up alongside a digital revolution where it's ok to be human.

The younger Churches are likely to feel self - sufficient; the ancient ones are likely to want to impose on the younger Churches their cultural models.

The Apostle Paul had a great many corrective remarks to make to this young church (of which we just have two of his letters preserved), but yet it is of this same church that Paul writes: «I give thanks to my God always for you» (1 Corinthians 1:4).

The letter to the Ephesians encourages a young church and its leaders to be strong in the Lord.

As a leader of a younger church in Asia said the other day, «if the World Council of Churches does not take mission seriously, it is not worthy of its name».

In our time through the growth of the younger churches, through a discovery of our evangelistic task in many countries, the Spirit makes us aware of the great need to grasp and clarify the essential connection between the missionary function of the Church (its apostolate) and its obligation to be one (its catholicity).

Edinburgh thought of the «younger churches» as belonging to the domain of the mission and not in the region of general church history.

As Leslie Newbigin pointed out, the problems posed for missions by the rise of the younger churches, the end of colonialism, and the development of inter-church aid on a massive scale were questions about the forms and patterns of missionary action.

We owe it to the Younger Churches, which join the Council, to provide for them an ecumenical milieu in which the missionary calling pervades the whole atmosphere.

Several factors contributed to this development, including developments in the mission field and the pressure from the younger churches for unity, experiences of the churches in Europe during the two world wars, the political situation in the West, the theological developments in Europe, and the ecumenical discussions on church unity in the Life and Work and Faith and Order movements and their influence on the missionary movement.

At the conference itself, participants from the younger churches voiced their concerns for the unity of the church.

There was also greater recognition of the younger churches as the «Body of Christ» in their respective places and to which, all Christian activities in that place, were to be ultimately related.

Ecclesiastical «emperors» may love to march in solemn assembly, but to most younger church members today's vestments suggest ostentation — which they have difficulty associating with Jesus.

Not only that, the newly planted younger churches have also absorbed ethnic factors, such as language, dialect, custom, habit, tradition, life attitude, thought pattern, way of thinking, music, dance, visual art, etc..

As Dean Hoge, Benton Johnson and Donald Luidens have documented in Vanishing Boundaries: The Religion of Mainline Protestant Baby Boomers, many young church members have departed, never to return.

Both the teaching of Jesus and the young church's teaching about him established the framework for our understanding of time, of history, and of human destiny in the purposes of God.

Determined young church leaders were drawn to New York by the dozens, all seemingly compelled by a love for a cruel, frozen, frenetic and creative place.

From the beginning Visser» t Hooft and the other pioneers took pains to see that «the younger churches» had voice and space and power.

By impoverishing the Church's genuinely «Catholic «image, the colonial missions have left the young Churches of Asia, Africa, South and Central America with a heavy historical burden till the present.

Though war between China and Japan had been going on for several years, both the younger Churches were well represented.

Among them are many young church leaders.

Among the 700,000 or so Dreamers are plenty of young church leaders, students at Christian colleges, and even members of World Relief's own staff.

However, Cheng Chung - Yi of China did forcefully raise, to the attention of the Conference, the relationship between the older and the younger churches in his plea for the unity of the church in China.

At Edinburgh, it was not the relationship between church and mission, or between older and younger church which received most attention, but the relationship between the missionary and the «native» worker.

Out of the twelve hundred delegates, only seventeen were from the younger churches.

In some smaller fields the whole population has been completely gathered into the Christian fellowship that no non-Christian community remains outside, and in some the early relation of mother and daughter Church has practically merged into that of sisterhood, the younger Church being now no longer dependant for the maintenance of its activities on the older.

By 1928 the reality of the «church» in the existence of the younger churches as the fruit of the missionary activity, had forced itself upon the attention of the missionary movement.

So from the beginning it was determined that the central theme of the meeting should be the building up of the younger churches as a part of the historic universal Christian community.

One hundred and ninety delegates from fifty countries were present, and forty of these were from the younger churches.

«This work in this new day», said the Madras Conference, «must be undertaken by a partnership between the older and the younger churches, by a pooling of all resources and by cooperation of all the Christians».47

In Jerusalem, much more than in Edinburgh, the relationship between the older and younger churches, and the development of younger churches, became serious concerns.

At Jerusalem, the younger churches desired a direct link between them and the societies and the churches they represented.