Sentences with phrase «of community in»

Specifically, when Mark (4:34) writes that Jesus explained everything privately to his disciples, he implies the existence of a community in which the explanations are available; when he writes, as he often does, that the disciples did not understand the meaning of what Jesus said he implies that such understanding is now present.

In addition to visiting Starbucks and music festivals, people are experiencing a sense of community in their own homes.

Thus we know that the event upon whose unity and complexity we have been insisting throughout this discussion culminated in the formation of the community in which God makes himself known in a particular concrete way as both righteous and forgiving and through which the new life of the Spirit, the distinctive Christian life, is imparted.

Editor's Note: Shane Claiborne is an author and activist and one of the architects of a community in Philadelphia called The Simple Way.

What is needed is to replace the narcissist with a minister who has the maturity, to build a sense of community in the church, beginning with the staff.

If so, the church could become the most compelling model of community in American culture.

It is the height of arrogance as well as folly for professionals in the field of mental health to ignore actual involvement of the community in the administration of community mental health.

Don't get me wrong, despite my belief in the necessity of community in Christ, I've seen more than my fair share of ugliness in the church.

The result of the honourable place given by the rajas to the Christians, and of their assimilation in social custom to their Hindu neighbours, was that they were accepted as a caste, and often thought of their community in this way.

But we get certain glimpses of the life of the community in the writings of foreign visitors, sometimes in the traditions preserved in India and East Syria, occasionally in casual references by Indian writers, and in a few monuments and inscriptions.

From the history of the Pulaya conversion movement in Travancore, what emerges uppermost is the development of social consciousness of a community in the various stages and changes of society in transition.

Conversion is... not the joining of a community in order to procure «eternal salvation»; it is rather, a change in alliance in which Christ is accepted as Lord and centre of one's life.

There are many forms of community in existence — family, neighborhood, school, the people one works with or plays with, the team one plays on or cheers for, bridge clubs, political parties, labor unions, Rotary clubs, Masons, the «solid south,» Florida versus California, the nation, and a host of other groupings in between.

Which is to say, the leader of the community in this or that place acts as the designated «elder» and performs what can rightly be known as priestly functions, even if that particular word is not employed.

In an interview with Mike Pride, Kenyon explains deeper reasons: «I never felt a sense of community in Ann Arbor.

Unlike some historians who, in view of these developments, proclaim the loss of community in Philadelphia, Nash argues for another analytical strategy.

It represents the means whereby the mental health resources of the center becomes linked to the mental health resources of the community in a complementary manner.

The decay of community in Third World countries is more dramatic.

We note once again the significance of community in public culture and participative media.

Here in communion with the brethren we come nearest to the Resurrection Body of Christ; and so Paul writes in the following Chapter 11 (a passage which has received far too little consideration) if this Lord's Supper were partaken of by all members of the community in a completely worthy manner, then the union with Jesus» Resurrection Body would be so effective in our own bodies that even now there would be no more sickness or death (1 Corinthians 1 1:28 - 30) a singularly bold assertion.

The report made it clear that confessing Christ is a communal activity, the activity of the community in the spirit.

Note also the central role of the community in both cases — the scientific community on the one hand, and the religious community or church on the other.

Everything, therefore, in the tradition of the teaching of Jesus which could afford guidance for the conduct of the community in this situation came to be of especial value.

The expert may be a scholar, a reporter, an articulate person without formal education, a business researcher, a government worker, an archivist, a long - term resident of the community in which the problem exists.

Mine builds upon Morris Freilich's concept of community in his Marginal Natives, 520.

The model will depend on particular church polities, on the size and nature of the community in which the church is situated, and on the distinctive characteristics of the congregation itself.

The most pressing question for Muslims in many lands is how to order the life of the community in a society that is not governed according to Muslim law and in which Muslims must conceive of their religion, at least in part, as equivalent to a voluntary association.

The hurts of the people in Garden Grove may not be as sophisticated as the hurts of the Berkeleyites, but Schuller claims that any church will grow if it understands the needs of the community in which it is planted and acts realistically «to heal human hearts and fill human needs» through the power of God's love in Christ.

It is ironic, in this way, that the two most pronounced promoters of community in Harvard's life in the «Golden Age» of Harvard philosophy were both loners.

And a republican form of government makes it less likely that factional interests — that is, those groups that defend substantively wrongful and improper public policies — will be able to exercise their plans of oppression against the legitimate rights or interests of the community in general and the individual in particular.

Get plugged in and genuinely attempt to become part of that community in a way that will transform you and the people you're helping.

If there is among you anyone in need, a member of your community in any of your towns within the land that the Lord your God is giving you, do not be hard - hearted or tight - fisted toward your needy neighbor.

Someone's religious beliefs are, to an enormous degree, correlated to the beliefs of the community in which they grow up.

To him the lack of community in our nation's cities is obvious.

I often look at your works and notice the lack of community in them.

Then he came to L'Arche and I suggested that he become the priest of the community in Toronto.

Moreover, churches are a kind of community in which at least in principle (unlike in suburbia) membership is not primarily a function of class or age.

There is a much stronger sense of community in countries that have a large indigeneous population and a deeper shared sense of belonging to the natural order than there is in Western nations that have experienced the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution.

J. Ability to discover and utilize the best religious resources of the community in the overall care of persons and families who come to the center.

Awareness methods can help develop a bond of community in a remarkably short time.

Unfortunately, I think Rachel's plea to pastors to tell the truth is a naive gesture, one that assumes that Christians find their sense of community in the waters of baptism rather than their shared ideas.

Certainly the quality of community in an arcology is likely to be superior to that in most suburbs.

There is every danger of a piously suppressed smile at artistic faults in the performance of the text engendering doubts of the true religious feeling and faith of the actors, danger also of misinterpretation of the... motives of the community in performing the Play.

Global Health Now recently captured photographs of a community in Kahemba under the ill effects of this disease.

Choosing to do the hard work of loving members of our community in the face of disappointment and disillusionment strengthens us to do the same with our spouse.

In this gathering of community in complete freedom, does anyone have the freedom to be offended by what anyone may say, suggest, do, or don't do?

every one who seeks God should want to be part of that community in their own neighborhood.

The goal of the presentation is to provide audience members with information that will inspire them and encourage them to return to their own town or city and work to increase engagement of underrepresented segments of their community in entrepreneurism and small business growth.

Mr. Garrity's legal experience, his love of the arts, and his commitment to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have prepared him to lead Shine MDS, Inc., and face the challenges of a community in need of healing.

It's the explosive growth of this community in the wake of the 2017 boom.