Sentences with phrase «not members of the body»

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

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

Not exact matches

In a notable counterpoint to this narrative, FINMA, a financial regulatory body serving Switzerland (not a G20 member), issued guidelines in February that described four different genres of cryptocurrencies: payment tokens, utility tokens, asset tokens, and hybrid tokens, which bear characteristics of several token types.

Stopping short of calling for cathedral governing bodies - Chapters - to be scrapped, the Church of England said at least two - thirds of members should not be clergy, to ensure people with necessary skills are there.

Again morals aren't derived from the «opinion» of any member of the mystical body of the church except for its head, God.

Morals aren't decided by the members of the church, which is the mystical body of Christ that you are correct in stating but wrong in stating «too bad you never learned about.».

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.

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.

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 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?»

The point is that they would not be necessary if there were no danger of Christians presenting their members to sin or allowing sin to reign in their mortal bodies.

Since the belief system of a parish includes not only its formal creeds but also the meanings it assigns to itself and its members as finite bodies, to learn about a church's world view — what it believes is really going on in life — one must listen to the church's stories about its own body and those of the members who constitute it.

Further, the transmission within the body is one which introduces increased emphasis from occasion to occasion as the experience rises to the level of the final percipient, which we maintain need not be a member of the dominant nexus.

«I thought it belonged to God and, if not, then to the duly elected members of the governing 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.

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

Reaching for the wholeness of Scripture is to read each text in the canonical context, not to see it as an atomic unit all alone but as a member of the divinely willed body of the canon such that the light of every part is shed on all the rest.

Would not this «body» have a nonsocial nexus of its own, that is intense living occasions which might support «a thread of personal order along some historical route of its members» (PR 163)?

Not only were these churches leveling off from the heady gains of the postwar revival era (the main Presbyterian bodies from 1940 to 1960 had gained adherents at more than twice the rate of the preceding 20 years), but just as important, even more than before they were «losing» members and potential members because the regions in which they were strongest were «losing» population.

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.

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?

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.

But it is worthwhile to recall that within the first generation it was possible for Paul not only to describe the «breaking of bread» at the fellowship meal of Christians as «sharing in the body of Christ,» 24 but to pass on from that to the idea that the church (the new Israel as it emerged in history) is itself the «body of Christ,» each member of which is «in Christ,» as Christ is «in him.»

One can not become a member of Christ's body without relating to a particular congregation of believers.

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.»

We are members of a Body and can not cut ourselves away from the Body otherwise we perish.

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.

It is an incredibly diverse collection of body parts, but without any one member, the body is not complete.

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.

So rather than criticize other people, or other churches, for not being like us, we should look at them as different members of our one body.

The members of the body are not allowed to act according to their own decisions, but according to the decisions of the pope.

Self - control out of consideration for others is not repression if personal sacrifice is necessary to the well - being of all members of the Body.

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.»

The most significant deductions from these figures are, first, that more than half of the people of the United States are now members of religious bodies — in the neighborhood of 58 per cent — and second, that growth in church membership reveals a steady increase, not only numerically but in proportion to the general population.

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

The Body of Christ has many members, and not all of them are diseased.

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.

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.