Sentences with phrase «of baptized»

To preach to the community of the baptized is to speak to those who are born again to see the world from a new, theological perspective.

There have been Hindu groups like that of Subba Rao of Andhra Pradesh, committed to spirituality and religious rites centred in the Crucified Christ as Saviour and Healer but deciding to stay outside the main stream of the church communities of the baptized believers.

... as a sort of baptized feng shui would get to me, too, after a while, I think.

(2) Paedobaptists should recognize the legitimacy of baptism on profession of faith of those baptized in infancy.

Think of the baptized life as one in which Paul can command certain deep emotions: «Rejoice in the lord always»; «Give thanks in all circumstances»; «Remember your baptism and be thankful.»

The inclusion of baptized children of church members in the Lord's Supper may be a genuflection to continuing illusions about the efficacy of «the family pew.

This is Vatican II ecclesiology at its best — the ministry of the baptized, rather than of the clergy.

«It is our common Baptism that places us in real, if imperfect, communion with other Christians so that the initiation of the baptized, though not an ecumenical activity, requires a particular ecumenical sensitivity.»

The fact that Paul laid hands on the heads of the baptized converts no doubt symbolized the descent of the Spirit into their lives, just as the Spirit had descended on the converted Samaritans whom Philip had baptized when Peter and John laid their hands on them (8:14 - 17).

My premise is that this is not possible unless those who lead congregations recognize that it is the church — and not a biological family unit — that is the first family of all baptized Christians.

The church of Jesus Christ is the community of baptized persons who are ministers in and to the world.

He threw all his eggs into one basket and brought his whole family into the family of the baptized.

This must be nurtured through instruction and example, lest rejection of God in the lifestyle of the baptized set up an internal dichotomy that is the opposite to communion with God.

But of course, that is precisely the way in which the Christian tradition has understood that strange power that Paul thought to be the inheritance of the baptized.

Not all the activity of the Church, which is the totality of the baptized united in faith and love, proceeds so plainly from the hierarchy as to be simply the carrying out of official orders.

In the Christian story, we discover a fiercely loyal God who creates, loves, lives, dies, lives again, and calls teens into the passionate grace of the baptized life.

After the Council such cooperation, which is the right and duty of every baptized Christian, must first take the form of a personal study and understanding of the Council decrees.

As the community of the baptized, the church is sustained by God's grace.

«Most of the baptized have an image of the church that, on the one hand, is family friendly in its attitude, whilst at the same time considering her sexual morality to be unrealistic,» the German bishops said, according to National Catholic Reporter.

The Church's official witness to this covenant - making, the ordained priest, exercises his unique form of priesthood by offering the Church's recognition of, and blessing on, what the couple, in their exercise of the priesthood of the baptized, have covenanted together.

Some Evangelicals see the communal office of discerning and teaching the truth in the covenanted congregation of baptized believers, while others see it in a wider synodical or episcopal connection.

This phenomenon of the baptized Catholic pagan is an impediment to the Church's mission, for it suggests that the Church is not serious about the truths it proposes or the consequences of living (and not living) by those truths.

My only question is does a list exist of those baptized?

This story is here because it points out how ludicrous the act of baptizing those without a say is.

The whole idea of baptizing someone after they are dead is ludicrous.

John Moschus in Pratrum Spirituale tells of Conun, a monk in the Jordan valley charged with the responsibility of baptizing.

As a Presbyterian, I agree with his practice of baptizing infants but not with his rationale for doing so.

People can ridicule the act of baptizing the dead, but they should not regard the intentions of Mormons as evil, or disrespectful.

Others would speculate on the symbolism of baptizing heads or feet.

Later, much of the conquest of the New World by Christian Europe was justified, and partly motivated, by this goal of baptizing all people.

They point to 1 Cornthians 15:29, in which Paul spoke of baptizing the dead, a message LDS Church founder Joseph Smith took to heart.

@Ron Yorgason can you explain the reasoning & logic behind the Mormon practice of Baptizing the Dead?

Unethical or religious freedom??? There also seems to be another accepted practice of the Mormon Missionaries and LDS faithful members of baptizing prosepective church members into the LDS faith after only three visits of Book of Mormon and other religious lessons.

I really like this new pope, but the relatively new tradition of baptizing babies confuses me.

Sara Urry, the difference is that other religions don't impose their beliefs on other religions while Mormons do by the very act of baptizing people by proxy who would not have consented while they were still living.

What about the practice of the Catholic church of baptizing babies, Jesus was baptized an adult, where in the Bible says that a baby has to be baptized?

This is both the rationale for and the justification of the age - long practice of baptizing infants.

The cheap grace mentality that Bonhoeffer censored came in part from the long - held practice of baptizing infants.

If Jesus was talking about water baptism in Matthew 28:19 - 20, why is there no examples of baptizing in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit?

Luke manages to avoid saying explicitly that John baptized Jesus, and in Matthew's Gospel Mark's simple account is amplified by the inclusion of a protest on the part of John against the impropriety of his baptizing Jesus when really Jesus should be baptizing him.

The court placed Doe's intent — which was to get baptized but not to become a church member — over the «rules, customs, and tradition of the baptizing church,» Tucker wrote.

Its origin is probably to be found in the Jewish practice of baptizing gentiles who were attracted to Judaism and in John the Baptist's baptism «for the forgiveness of sins» (Mark 1:4).

Make it yourself; I'm working... Here is a business opportunity which at first glance seems to fall into the category of baptizing the groceries.

I tried out the question about the proper age, mode and purpose of baptizing and got back a very non - Catholic / Anglican / Lutheran / Orthodox answer.

The practice of baptizing Holocaust victims has long been offensive to Jews.

With rare exceptions, the work of baptizing them has been the province of middlemen.

Not exact matches

«Walking down to the water with a preacher... not to be baptized, but to meet Jesus because you had two bullets pumped in the back of your head,» Gowdy said, according to a 1997 media account published on GoUpstate.com.

This man goes and is baptized in a great tub, in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost: that man has his son's foreskin cut off, whilst a set of Hebrew words (quite unintelligible to him) are mumbled over his child.

Optiva has begun distribution in Japan, and its Japanese partners were on hand when Optiva baptized its new corporate headquarters, in April, in a ceremony «straight out of our water history,» says the CEO.

In the Army, I kept going a little bit (I even got baptized in Saddam Hussein's swimming pool), but have sort of lost touch in the last few years.