Sentences with phrase «members of the body»

I am a proud member of the body of Christ... put me down, make fun, scoff, spit on me, diminish what I believe, tell me I am wrong, or persecute me verbally, physically, or mentally — I will forgive you as He forgives me, I will pray for your as He instructs, and I will do my human best to love you because He loved you first.

I've been a member of the body of Christ for even longer, and can attest to a similar attitude of careless consumption in too many pews (and a good number of podiums).

You say All members of the Body of Christ are called to help one another through prayer.

All members of the Body of Christ are called to help one another through prayer.

It is, as Richard Rohr calls it, the spiritual «symbiosis» between mutual members of the Body of Christ (Things Hidden, 2).

But I think that if you re-read the entire post, you will see that I am not saying that Jesus calls people to leave the Church (His Body), but rather, that Jesus might be calling some members of His Body to be the church in a way that looks different than the Sunday morning activity of sitting in a pew and listening to a sermon.

While as a man, Jesus could only be in one place at one time, as the Head of the church, Jesus can be wherever there are members of His body, the church.

Furthermore, the care for the members of the body sometimes requires rebuking, or even excommunication.

In fact, someone can be a fully - devoted follower of Jesus Christ, loving and serving others on a daily basis, but not ever «attend church» yet still be a member of the Body of Christ.

«How can we exclude members of the Body of Christ just because they can't understand a 30 - minute sermon?»

We are made members of the Body of Christ through receiving three sacraments - Baptism, Confirmation, which we receive only once, and the Holy Eucharist which is Christ Himself.

Christians as members of the Body of Christ and also simultaneously being members of society, with obligations in both.

In and through this experience, which becomes the illuminating event of our total everyday life, one finds himself in a great company, the Church: a member of a body that lives in the Christ - happening, dwells in this Word of the Lordship of Christ.

One dies to a selfish, loveless, self, and comes alive, open to the new life that is shaped by fellowship with him and the members of his body.

Community belonging and being a member of the Body of Christ is so much more than church attendance and membership, and too often, we've forgotten that, or we act like it isn't true.

The members of the body of Christ with the help of the Holy Spirit is what we need, not Roman - styled scholars.

As we mature, we receive the fullness of the gifts of the Spirit in confirmation; these gifts ready us to bear witness to Christ in the world as full members of his body, the Church.

The doctrines of those illustrious men, like the scattered members of a body, Thomas collected together and cemented, distributed in wonderful order, and so increased with important additions that he is rightly and deservedly esteemed the special bulwark and glory of the Catholic faith.»

Ultimately, though, it boils down to this: Philip Seymour Hoffman was a Catholic, a member of the Body of Christ.

As members of the body of Christ we are all called to be pastoral caregivers.

Not everyone who says Lord, Lord is a member of Christ and thus, a member of the body of Christ.

As members of the body of Christ, we are the fulfillment of that promise.

Shaikh Mohammad Abd Allah Draz is a Member of the Body of the Grand Ulama, and Professor of Interpretation of the Qur» an at Al Azhar University in Cairo.

Group counseling can become one means by which the pastor fulfills his essential function «to equip God's people for work in his service» (Ephesians 4:11 - 12, NEB), and through which laymen perform their priesthood as members of the Body of Christ.

In theBCP we pray...» we confess that we have sinned in thought, word and deed by what we have done and those things we have left undone...... later «we thank thee for thy Precious Body and Blood that by these mysteries we are assured we are living members of the body of your Son so that we may go forth t by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit let us go forth into the world to love and serve you amen.

But Buber believes that Paul means by faith belief in a truth, a kind of objective knowledge, whereas surely for Paul faith in Christ is never separated from love to all the members of the body of Christ and to every man.

It also unites us, in purpose, with other members of the body of Christ pressing the Gospel story into the brokenness of their world.

He who loves his own wife loves himself; 29 for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, 30 because we are members of His body.

Rom 7:22 For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man, Rom 7:23 but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members.

Rom 7:5 For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

Not all members of the body are equal in strength, but all are equal in value and have a function to perform.

Differences are based on sustained and supported differences of interpretation between faithful and sincere members of the Body — and not just of individuals, but of whole congregations or denominations.

But in the mystical body of the Church, the surplus humanity that Christ finds in each of the members of this his body is called upon, insofar as each is a part of the whole, to participate in the work of this body, which is the redemption continued throughout time.

13); and the diversity of gifts, by the same Spirit, were divinely intended as the equipment of members of the body for function in its life.

It is now pastoral preaching directed toward the instruction, the persuasion, the counseling of persons who are becoming members of the body of Christ and who are carrying on the mission of the Church.

In another sense the Christian of today can also confirm that conviction in personal experience as a member of the Body of Christ, the Christian fellowship.

By incorporating us into Christ, the Holy Spirit also makes us members of his body, the Church.

In this sense, then, Jesus Christ himself is remembered by God; and those who are «in Christ», as members of his Body or as branches of the Vine which he is, are also remembered.

Jesus only lived a single lifetime called to specific roles, as members of the body of Christ we are called to apply the Truths he revealed to us to many more roles.

We have already spoken of our being members of his body.

But this must raise the question about what «happens» to those who have not known Jesus Christ, unlike those of us who are plainly the conscious members of his body.

For every social activity ought of its very nature to furnish help to the members of the body social, and never destroy and absorb them.

If Christ died to this world, so have the members of His body; if He has risen into newness of life, so have they (Rom.

To be» in the Spirit» is to be» in Christ,» that is to say, a member of the Body of Christ.

Or, defined in still older terms, justice accords to each member of the body that which is his or her due.

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.

As we understand communion to represent the body of Christ, «BROKEN» for us to be complete, so are those that are members of the body of Christ, they are persecuted for the world to see and believe the stand they take in their belief.

Some who come to the pastor belong to the Church, either nominally or actively; some once belonged and have left; some have been hurt by their experience in the Church; and some are seeking for the first time to become members of the Body of Christ.

If the church is a body, then we should live, serve, and minister all together with the same members of the body.

«And just as Christ gathers to himself all those who believe and makes them his body, so the Christian comes to see himself as a member of this body, in an essential relationship with all other believers» (LF 22).