Sentences with phrase «members of this body of»

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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..

Paul is reported to have quoted the Stoic poets, «In him we live, move, and have our being» (Acts 17:28) and Christians speak of being members of the body of Christ.

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

They are not members of the body of Christ, but they are not unrelated to Christ.

Members of the Body of Christ can be transformed through their participation in the life of a congregation.

There is almost no end to the passages that urge the internal peace, the mutual love of the church, including 1 Corinthians 12 on the mutual concern of the members of the body of Christ; 1 Corinthians 13 on love as the highest spiritual gift; Philippians 2 on the mind of Christ; 1 John 4 on the interconnection between love of God and love of brothers and sisters.2

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.

Is it a belief, a lifestyle, a set of values, a conversion experience, a member of the body of Christ, a bible believer?

As the first member of the body of Christ, Peter is the rock or foundation for the building up of the church, the cell to which all other cells are attached in the growth of that body.

Likewise as members of the body of Christ, humans may be achieving aims which far transcend human imagination.

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.

Regardless of what is happening among biological kin in any given week, members of the Body of Christ are helped by remembering that God loves and forgives them as they participate in the incarnation; the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ; the birth of the church; and the giving of the Holy Spirit.

Such is the profound mystery of love when members of the Body of Christ reach out to God's world and move into God's future together.

The disabled are treated as the weak to be served, rather than as fully committed, integral members of the Body of Christ and the human family; the specific contribution which they have to give is ignored....

That is, all who become members of the body of Christ are also elected or chosen by God to serve God's purposes in this world.

But we, members of the body of Christ, are not to take our cues from them.

The Catholic view of matrimony, on the other hand, is that it is an objective bond, sealed with public vows that are ratified and completed by the private union of the flesh of a man and a woman who are members of the Body of Christ.

First, as already noted, the purpose of the hierarchy of the clergy is not to dominate, but to divinise all the members of the body of Christ.

(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.

And since all Christians are members of the body of Christ, when we serve other Christians, it is as if we are serving Christ.

Furthermore, Altizer himself has argued in effect that the institutional Churches are not in the Church because they are not members of the body of the present (and therefore the only) Christ.

But what is really central in the liturgy is the mystical element — that the members of the body of Christ be prayerfully incorporated into the sacrifice offered by Christ on the altar.

We baptize them so that they may become members of the Church, members of the Body of Christ, that they may pass over death, overcome the garments of skin, decay and mortality.