Sentences with phrase «members by baptism»

Every church should receive all its members by baptism upon the confession of their faith and sins wrought by the preaching of the Gospel, according to the primitive institution and practice.

The Church's «faith story» is more than just a graced subjectivity: it is the response by the redeemed Brideof Christ, of which we are all members by Baptism (note, by Baptism, not by some a-sacramental graced subjectivity), to the Lord who lived, died and rose again in history and whom she awaits to complete all things in His Second Coming.

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Names are submitted by individual members on the web and baptisms carried out locally.

CNN: After Anne Frank baptism, Mormons vow to discipline members Reacting to a report that well - known Holocaust victim Anne Frank had been baptized by proxy in a Mormon temple, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints says it is committed to disciplining members of its church who conducted such baptisms, which violate church policy.

(CNN)- Reacting to a report that well - known Holocaust victim Anne Frank had been baptized by proxy in a Mormon temple, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints says it is committed to disciplining members of its church who conducted such baptisms, which violate church policy.

Those who could acknowledge in faith its claim to possessing the eternal truths could become members of the institution by baptism.

This is by no means Mormons doing baptizing for deceased people and saying: «There, now that you are dead and have no choice we are going to offer a baptism for you and you are now a member of our church whether you like it or not» It's not at all like that!

I can't quite figure out what has people upset about this??? If you don't believe that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is true, then I am guessing you probably don't believe that the ordinance of proxy baptism that has been done by member of that church actually means anything.

Formally, we are made Christians, members of Christ, in holy baptism; but we must indeed devote all our days to praying, striving, hoping by grace to «become what we already are.»

Indeed St. Paul appears to have done something of the sort when he speaks of the Church as Christ's body and those who belong to it by baptism as being members of that body.

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The releasing strength and power of the real Redeemer Jesus Christ we receive by the sacramental baptism (Churches believing in sacramental baptism do not practice rebaptism, but accept the one Holy Baptism and a church member can shift the church without being baptized baptism (Churches believing in sacramental baptism do not practice rebaptism, but accept the one Holy Baptism and a church member can shift the church without being baptized baptism do not practice rebaptism, but accept the one Holy Baptism and a church member can shift the church without being baptized Baptism and a church member can shift the church without being baptized again).

This community is entered by the sacrament of baptism; its members are nourished in their Christian discipleship through the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, the holy eucharist, the mass, the Holy Communion.

And according to a recent report by a special task force of pastors, the baptism drought in America's largest evangelical denomination — which counts 15.7 million members and 5.8 million Sunday worshipers — is worst among millennials.

To be a member of the Body of Christ by baptism is to have a better relation than the disciples, for it is the glorified Lord with whom we have to do.

Christians are members of a family, siblings by virtue of baptism who pledge to make their stories available to one another out of conviction that they become better people in the process.

And now we come to that rediscovered doctrine of our day: the mystical Body of Christ in which we, by Baptism, are incorporate so that «in Christ» we live divinely human lives, as members of the order of supernatural charity which permeates and penetrates this order of relative justice which we call the secular world.

Doe's best argument might be «that the church breached a promise of confidentiality made by the member who said, in the lead - up to the baptism, «Nobody will find out.

In describing such worship as «public,» we do not mean, of course, that it was opened to all and sundry, but rather that it was public for the Church and for all members of the Church who by their baptism had been initiated into the community and thus had been given the status which made it possible for them to participate in what went on when the community engaged in its regular worship of God in Christ.

In January 1588, he wrote to a friend in the Electoral service, Johann Loser, asking him to be godfather to his son «whom God has given me this night by my dear Katie, so that he may come out of the old Adam's nature to the rebirth in Christ through the holy sacrament of baptism, and may become a member of sacred Christendom.

The origins of the church was the baptism of a member of the Ethiopian royal family by Philip the Evangelist; it became the established church of the Ethiopian Axumite Kingdom under King Ezana in the 4th century.

Volunteer • Provided tier one services to the church by manning the reception • Ensured that members and guests were provided with information they asked for and directed to concerned church staff • Took telephone calls and directed to the right staff member • Prepared church correspondence and obtained pastor's signature of various documents • Assisted in handling events such as sermons, baptisms and child dedications • Provided inventory and stock control support