Sentences with phrase «obedience to church»

Its heart is the obedience of faith, including, as affirmed in word and deed by the saints, an obedience to the Church.

It is the product of centuries of economic exploitation coupled with a degrading theology that stresses poverty as God's will, obedience to church and secular authority, and heavenly rewards.

Mormons believe «obedience to the Church and the hierarchy of their church» is the only way to heaven.

Maciel, with the spirit of obedience to the Church that has always characterized him, has accepted this communiqué with faith, complete serenity, and tranquility of conscience, knowing that it is a new cross that God, the Father of Mercy, has allowed him to suffer and that will obtain many graces for the Legion of Christ and the Regnum Christi Movement.

The only way to get a pass from your ward bishop is by proving your obedience to the church and it's leaders.

The Faith Movement proposes these ideas in a spirit of obedience to the Churchs Magisterium.

Not exact matches

The institutional church is so often like Satan... longing to be worshipped and obeyed; teaching that obedience to one scripture is more important than balancing them all; luring us to abuse our power to make a difficult path chosen by God into a simple solution of no new spiritual growth (Matt 4).

One prominent pastor personally committed to the position of the revisionists stated in a pastoral letter to his congregation that were the revisionists successful, those opposed to the legitimization of homosexuality would be forced to make a painful decision: they could either remain within a church that would stand for an agenda they found incompatible with obedience to Christ, or they could leave the church.

(Ephesians 5:22 - 24) «Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.

Many conservative commentators point, as the icon for all that went wrong, to the 1967 Land O» Lakes statement, in which the presidents of Catholic colleges declared that their pursuit of academic excellence served a high Catholic goal and thus exempted Catholic schools from direct obedience to the hierarchy and magisterium of the Catholic Church.

Even within the Church, the gospel, separated from obedience to God, becomes a permissive principle of undiscriminating tolerance to bless human desire and fantasy.

Sad to say, many churches have permitted the revolution to redirect the faith away from the hard path of obedience to one that simply affirms everyone without seeking to transform their affections and their lives by God's word.

This rules out the prayers of the churches of Christendom who have prayed in behalf of their particular nation during wartime, such as when German Catholic bishops issued a pastoral letter in September 1939 at the outbreak of WWII that said: «In this decisive hour we admonish our Catholic soldiers to do their duty in obedience to the Fuehrer (Hitler) and to be ready to sacrifice their whole individuality.

With the freedom of the children of God we embrace whatever structures and activities are needed to serve the aims and ideals of the Movement, within the obedience of faith and the discipline of our Holy Mother the Church.

When parents exercise their «unrenounceable authority» 11 as a service to the well - being of their children, the children's gifts of love, respect and obedience become their specific contribution to the building up of both Church and society.12

How is our obedience to God mediated or intersected by loyalty to institutions (state, church, school),) to our fellows (citizens, worshippers, colleagues),) to our families and friends, to ourselves?

And this, I might add parenthetically, was the issue beneath the issues at the synods of 2014 and 2015: the obedience of the Church to divine revelation, in which we find the Church's constitutive «form.»

But as Francis understood the economy of salvation and the radical obedience to which the disciples of the Lord Jesus are called, if God saw fit to take a risk on the humanity of the Church, who are we to deem that a mistake?

In fairly short order, a community of laymen, lay women and priests dedicated to Our Lady were given permission by the Church to live together in poverty, chastity and obedience.

And so his book is intended primarily for Christians who are «already convinced that their discipleship to Jesus necessarily commits them to the demanding, costly obedience of choosing not to nurture their homosexual desires,» but also to the Church at large as it seeks to make a place for those Christians.

If we believe that church planting is a matter of obedience to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, for his greater glory in our time, then right now is when we should start taking steps toward jumping in.

He must learn more than ever before to bear his own responsibility within the concrete Church and not in a basic, though secret opposition to her, and to cope also with the historical conditions of her doctrine and practice in freely given obedience.

We can not of course go more closely here into the question why the Church has the right and duty, not only to promulgate and inculcate the precepts of immutable divine law and to supervise its observance, but on its own initiative to go beyond this and lay down positive legal prescriptions, and impose obedience to them as a Christian's duty, although they are enacted with full consciousness that they are not necessarily eternally valid but can be changed and even abolished.

Even today Catholics are not dispensed of obedience) but have to learn that they must willingly also do things that are not obvious to them if they have been decided on by the authorities of the Church.

It was Bonhoeffer's conviction that only a church whose message is a part of her own being, a church who witnesses in obedience to her own ultimate concern through her actions, is able to interpret and proclaim the word of God to a world come of age.

An authoritative magisterium would be of no use to the Catholic Church if there were no freely given obedience to it.

The young man cited I Corinthians 14:34 - 35 «Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.

He will recognize in the change itself the immutable which would itself be betrayed by rigid immutability: fidelity to the eternal Gospel and obedience to the Lord of history, which both go to produce the change in the Church's legislation.

The obedience of a St Francis of Assisi to his heavenly vocation was obedience to a call which did not come through the intermediary of the Church's hierarchy, however true it may be to insist that it remained within the limits of the official Church and was tested and approved by the Church's ministers.

I thought straight away this is a joke as scriptures tell us only the father knows the time of his sons return and hes keeping it to himself he hasnt even told his son yet.Mark 13:32 This a mystery isnt God all knowing and isnt Jesus God it is a mystery.Yet I like that that is the case because it proves that the father is not the son and the son is not the father they are separate yet they are one just like the holy spirit.I have come across denominations that believe the father son and holy spirit are the one person i asked them how they can say that when Jesus was baptized we see 3 separate persons.We have enough information to know that we are in the last days the signs are present and increasing.Ever since Israel became a nation the countdown has begun.The verse the enemy will come like a thief in the night i have heard preached many times and i believe the preachers have got it wrong because they preach it from the view for the church to get there act together or you will miss out.This view is incorrect because if you are a born again believer following him in obedience and relying on the holy spirit you are not walking in darkness but are walking in the light so you will not be caught unaware as those who are sleeping this is a warning for those who are sleeping or walking according to the flesh they are in darkness.Remember the 10 wise virgins the ones who were alert and keep refilling there lamps went in with the bride those who slept were left behind and so it will be when the Lord returns.Now is the time to prepare our hearts and lives to be ready for his return.It is an exciting time to be living and we are to live in the expectation that the Lord could return at any time brentnz

8 With respect to those who refuse to accept Castilian sovereignty and the Christian faith the document includes this clause: «If you do not do it... with the help of God I will use all my power against you and will battle you everywhere and in every possible way, and you will be subject to the yoke and obedience of the Church and their Highnesses, and I will take your people and your women and children, and make them slaves, and as much I will send them, and I will inflict on you all the harm and damage possible.»

Novelist Mary Gordon, a perceptive interpreter of Catholic women's experience, affirms that Mary's submissive obedience has become «a stick to beat smart girls» («Coming to Terms with Mary,» Commonweal, January 15, 1982) Warner painfully recalls her own adolescent realization that the symbol of Mary as a model of chastity actually denigrates women and humanity, an understanding that transformed her perception of the church.

The fidelity of bishops and priests to the teaching of the Church and to their solemn vows; the fidelity of bishops in exercising oversight in ensuring obedience to that teaching and to those vows; and the fidelity of the lay faithful in holding bishops and priests accountable.

And with fear and trembling, we feel that we are walking in obedience to the Word of God concerning meeting together as a church in our home.

This vagueness doubtless is partly due to the conflict of traditions — a conflict in which exponents of the primacy of the «secret call» may take the position that it alone is adequate while others who emphasize the first importance of church call come to the indefensible position of renouncing the importance of command and obedience enacted in solitariness.

I am convinced that lay groups in the churches and students on the campuses are beginning to realize that careful Bible study is one form of Christian obedience that must not be avoided.

The Church opposes contraception, and the approach at the time seems to have simply to stress the duty of Catholics was to obey this — a position which was, of course, entirely right, but which emphasised obedience and tribal loyalty rather than an understanding of the issues and a sense of involvement in standing up for what is right.

The vision that he developed throughout his life is the foundation of the work of the Faith Movement, a vision that he offered humbly to the Church in obedience to the magisterium.

In Conscience and Obedience, William Stringfellow has it right, I think: «The principalities (governments, institutions, and even the church) are autonomous in relation to humans; they are created beings in their own right, not simply projections of human life, and their demonic character as fallen powers is no mere consequence of human sin either personal or corporate.»

In obedience to the Father, by the power of the Holy Spirit, the Word is made flesh in the lives of all faithful Christians as Mary intercedes for the Church.

Rebellion against the church by the individual member is a serious matter for God alone to decide; «the only valid motive... would be a perfect obedience rooted in the closest attachment to the church and to the Word in it.34

Jesus told his followers to pay their taxes and the early Church was urged to be obedient to their governments as part of their obedience to God.

It's profound to see how God brings things full - circle, and that in your obedience, honesty and willingness to serve him you end up in very similar situations to Jesus, in a totally different world to the «successful» churches.

One indication of this is the emphasis in recent Church documents on obedience to the hierarchical teaching authority and on the relationship between hierarchical superiority and subordination.

church) The quid pro quo is that Catholics are expected to develop their conscience based on obedience to the infallible dogmatic tenets of the Magisterium.

Yet, like the state, the school, the business and the labor union, the institutional church has its own distinctive sphere and task — not to save us from the state, once again, but to mediate God's saving grace, to nurture its members in the faith and to support them in living the life of obedience before God in Christ.

Churches — run by mere human beings and therefore fallible by default — take upon themselves, or attempt to, glory and obedience AND relationship due only to God Himself.

, sober obedience to the government of the Church, distinction as far as possible between what is ever - valid and what is changeable in her faith and constitution, consideration for those St. Paul calls the weak and for the Church as a whole as well as patience with her human side.

In general the Church has followed the lead of Paul in enjoining obedience to the ruling powers.

Platt has pastored the 4,500 - member Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, Alabama, since 2006, and has called Christians to a movement of radical obedience and discipleship through his ministry Radical and bestselling books Radical and Follow Me.