We have sacrificed the truth of the gospel on the altar of political influence, and have traded the power
of sacrificial service in the name of Jesus Christ for the power of being the moral majority and voting in the candidates whom we think will champion our political cause.
Not exact matches
The prophets, including Jesus, challenged the temple and its worship
services, the
sacrificial system to gain forgiveness, the priestly hierarchy to mediate God's grace, the separation
of people based on nationality, gender, and wealth, and basically, everything that religion requires to hold itself together.
True power and true victory lie in love for your enemies, in self -
sacrificial service, in infinite forgiveness, and in bearing sin and shame for the sake
of others.
Recently, in his first Encyclical Deus Caritas Est, Pope Benedict has beautifully set the goodness and delight
of the love
of man and women — and indeed wider loves — in the context
of the
sacrificial love
of agape and the ecclesial
service of caritas.
20:20 - 34) The key to experiencing the kingdom
of heaven is
sacrificial service.
When, therefore, the wide ranges
of the Psalter associated with the
services and sacrifices
of the temple are taken into account, the progressive spiritualizing
of the
sacrificial ritual becomes evident.
On the cross, Jesus shows us what kind
of God Yahweh is, and how Jesus came to rule and reign, not by might, nor by power, but by self -
sacrificial service and taking the sins and guilt and blame
of the entire world upon Himself.
Since World War II, however, only limited parts
of the church are aroused to
sacrificial giving and
service by these visions, and no new vision has emerged to give focus and direction to the denomination.
As Shawcross puts it, «she found, like her mother before her... an almost
sacrificial quality at the heart
of the
service».
It requires an offering
of self, just as the marriage relationship requires
sacrificial service.
Chomsky brings up the annihilation
of the American indigenous population» are we to call what was done to them, in
service of the foundational myth known as Manifest Destiny, something radically different from the logic
of sacrificial violence?
As Dean Willard Sperry has said, «Christianity, thus interpreted, becomes not an added entity outside the major tasks
of daily life,... but the sum
of all particulars
of unselfish and
sacrificial service in the day's work, and an experience
of actual community
of sustaining spirit.
They take vows
of poverty, chastity and obedience, and commit themselves to the way
of love in a dedicated community as their
sacrificial participation in the body
of Christ and his
service in the world.
At the beginning, no moral obligation extended beyond tribal boundaries; at the last, one mankind under one God claimed the
sacrificial service of the good man without regard to race or nation.
Zwingli broke with Luther largely over the Lord's Supper, holding that the Communion
Service was simply a memorial
of Christ's self -
sacrificial death.
Just as the bread and wine in the synoptic accounts represented Jesus» body and blood given for their redemption, so this act
of humble
service also bespoke Jesus»
sacrificial death on the cross for their salvation.
wholly self -
sacrificial, utterly courageous in serving God as he understands the
service of God.
To the parish priest
of today, Pope Francis issues a call: to a deeper faith and life
of prayer, to purity and holiness
of life, to a trust in the call
of the Father, and above all to a life
of ceaseless
sacrificial love and preaching» a
service that is in turn rooted in prayer and holiness.
Should I mourn, or thank him for all
of his devout
sacrificial service.