Sentences with phrase «message of a savior»
What good is the message of a savior if the people can not even follow 10 simple rules that were given to them?
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You are supposedly a Christian... you are supposed to set the example... clearly, you know nothing of the Gospel message and the commandments and example of your savior.
The message of Jesus is FORGIVENESS but to qualify for it, and to personally receive it, you will one day have to admit by faith that you need this forgiveness that He purchased on the cross, and that He truly is who He claimed to be, THE ONLY TRUE LORD AND SAVIOR, Who alone is worthy of all worship and praise!
To summarize our lesson for today: Paul reminds us that the vast Christian world needs to rise above divisive controversies and heal our differences; to adhere to the basic and undistorted gospel message («We are saved by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ»); to draw close to Christ and therefore to one another; and to follow our savior Christ, the Prince of Peace, in reaching out to the lost and alleviating the suffering of others.
Rather, I want to emphasize the alienness of the Christian message as a whole: This savior, whom the Gospel proclaims, is an intruder, one who breaks into human reality like a «thief in the night» — unexpected, unrecognized, indeed unappealing.
What the British commentator cites as his evidence of anti-Semitism impresses me as being pro-Jewish, an eagerness on the part of a converted Jew to convince his own people of the truth of the message of Jesus and to offer them his savior as their savior, too.
If the message is the gospel, that we are sinners in need of a savior and that savior is Christ, and they can land thousands in the seat to hear it then they stand a good chance of success.
The message redirects him from being a draft dodger to a hero in the First World War rescuing, undoubtedly, the future savior of Warner Brothers.