Sentences with phrase «members of the body did»

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It is possible the process will highlight pre-existing tensions among the remaining EU members — between those states that believe in moving toward a more deeply integrated, federalist structure, and those largely opposed to further transfers of power from national to regional bodies, preferring to maintain the status quo — and in doing so hasten the move to a so - called «two - speed» EU.

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'll tell you what: how about you stop acting like those atheists (who do not represent all atheists, by the way), and desist in painting an entire body of belief (or lack thereof) based on the actions of its most militant and aggressive members?

And when they really needed to see and feel the body of Christ reaching out in love, all they saw were the high fives of the arrogant staff and mindless, heartless church members and all they heard was «Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.»

It is not because they don't want to be members of Christ's church, but because they are members of Christ's church, the Body, and have found that Jesus wants them to serve the Body and love the world in ways that waste less time and money.

I am working on what does it mean to be a member (Paul's word, not mine) in a local body of Christ.

All of this to say this, the «church» is Christ's body, made up of all who believe him anywhere at any time, and they are all members, we do not need commitment forms or covenants in order to determine who is in or out.

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 aBody 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 abody 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.

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.

In matters of some significance, such as congressional «representation» of religious groups, the enormous and disproportionate visibility of the oldline bodies continues (in 1984, 67 Episcopalians, one Pentecostal); the «losses» have been to Roman Catholic and Jewish representation, not noticeably to right - wing or even «evangelical» Protestantism (Albert Menendez, «The Changing Religious Profile of Congress,» Church and State [January 1983], pp. 9 - 12; Christianity Today, «Members of Congress Hold Ties to 21 Religious Groups» [January 18, 19851, pp. 61 -64) Even in the membership sweepstakes it appears that the NCC bodies may do reasonably well in the 1980s.

We are doing some small things to change this, but basically Christians don't even ask what it means for us to be members of the one body of Christ in this city.

If members do not learn what it means to belong to «the Body of Christ» through service to one another, they will have little inclination to see or believe that the church is called to serve the world.

Do we believe in such a way that we are reknit as a body, members of one another, a commonwealth and not just people for ourselves?

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.

«Sure, she's a new member of Jesus» body — when else do you celebrate?»

15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself?

Yet we still do not grasp the christological significance of our text until we view it in the light of Galatians 3: 26 - 29 where the essential equality of the male and female members of the body of Christ is affirmed..

until people who do all the things you say start condemning other members of the Body of Christ who don't.

The living occasions abstracted from the inorganic occasions of the human body do not»... form a corpuscular sub-society, so that each living occasion is a member of an enduring entity with its personal order.»

They are also, at times, made by my fellow members of the Body of Christ, who do not realize that while their words hold the power to bring healing to others, they also hold the power to wound.

And as much as those of us who are members of the Body of Christ would like to pretend that these types of abuses do not occur, they do.

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.

In other words, God does not predestine or elect people to be in Christ; no, God elects Jesus, and by default, all who join with Jesus by faith also become elect as members of the «body of Christ.»

By giving him eternal rest in the Arabian sea showed consideration for Islam, if we were against the religion of Islam we would have done to him what the Islamic extreamists have done to our service members, strip them nude and drag them through the streets and then hang their bodies in public for passers by to throw stones and garbage at.

Do we primarily participate in the mind or collective consciousness of Christ as members of his body (the masculine / bridegroom dimension) or is our participation more akin to the fundamentaland constitutive feminine dimension in the role of Mary (or bride dimension)?

Maybe a small group of the Sanhedrin didn't like the idea of a blasphemer being buried in a respectable tomb, so they stole the body and tossed it into a hole, and did not tell the high priest and the other members.

(e) Church is not the ecclesia therefore Christ is not the one who built it man did, I do gather occasionally outside of church with other members of the Body of Christ, who like me are not part of Church, where we engage in deep fellowship and benefit from one another's spiritual gifts in a completely unformatted setting.

Then he contends that the living occasions of a cell «in abstraction from the inorganic occasions of the animal body» do not «form a corpuscular sub-society, so that each living occasion is a member of an enduring entity with its personal order» (PR 158).

This same idea is repeated in Romans 12: 4 - 8: «For as in one body we have many members, and all the members do not have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

Some of our bodies are as condominiums and some are for storage purposes and some are the temples where God's family members and his servants and otherly holy brethrens do pay homages within all embodied celestial manifestations of living organisms.

Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ?

For no man ever hates his own body, but nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ does the Church, because we are members of his body.

If members of Christ's body do their job, they can add a rather strange beatitude to blessed are the peacemakers and the persecuted: «Blessed are the persecutors!»

Oh, you can still, attend of course, and please, don't forget your offering, but unless you agree to their definition of what it means to be a members of the body of Christ, you don't really count.

For no man ever hates his own flesh but nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body.

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If you don't breastfeed then the baby will soon learn to recognise you, whether it's your families washing powder that all members will smell of or your body products the smell is something that develops quickly in the first month.

I say «it can be totally crap being pregnant, our poor nevertheless amazing bodies are going through so much» I tell them they are doing the most important and hardest job in the world and I emphasise how crucial it is to keep in touch with the other members of the class and use them as support.

While he is sometimes described as a member of the «Princeling Party», a group of children of high - ranking cadres, there are few shared interests between the members of this group, and they certainly do not act as a cohesive body.

Darius then summons members of a tribe known as the Callatiae who DID eat the bodies of their kin and asks them for what price they would cremate their dead — the practice of the Greeks.

Nothing in the Constitution specifies any particular standard of proof that must be met, so if enough members of each body said they believed the President did something, no matter how ridiculous the evidence might be, there would be no basis for any court to overturn that judgment.

ICYMI: One of the 25 Moreland Commission members, Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney, said during a CapTon interview last night that the corruption - busting body is unlikely to train its sites on the executive branch, despite multiple calls (largely from legislators) to do so.

of women wearing full - body coverings as being forced to do so under threat of violence from male family members makes the Feminist argument stronger, and would sway people who don't consider themselves particularly Feminist.

The Panel for Educational Policy, a 13 - person body that votes on billions of dollars in school spending, is under - trained in financial oversight and pressured to do whatever de Blasio asks, members say.

well over half of teachers (59 %) believe that the members of the governing body do not have relevant skills;

The Progressive Caucus Alliance, the political arm of a large group of left - leaning council members that now dominate the 51 - member body, wants to push through a minimum wage hike in the city that Senate Republicans do not support.

While Heastie did not have public commitments for the 76 votes he needs to be elected leader of the 150 - member body, he seems close to compiling insurmountable support within the conference.

«If you make a recommendation today,» Reiter said, «then we've lost any chance of still trying to reach some kind of agreement and giving the Legislature the chance to come back before the end of the year and do what I believe would be the right thing for them to do, which is to recognize the needs of their members, of their respective house members, to recognize the need to do away with outside salaries, or at least cap them substantially as other legislative bodies have done, for exactly the same reasons.»

Looking at who members don't want as leader, predictably enough there is a large body of members on the right of the party steadfastly opposed to Ken Clarke — 54 % of «Blue water» Tories say Ken should definitely not be leader.

He does not anticipate that the makeup of the new members itself will change the legislative direction of the body.