Sentences with phrase «of radical discipleship»

A living relationship with the risen Jesus provides the guts and the power of the new life of radical discipleship.

It is a call to leave behind the comfortable religion we know, and follow Jesus into the uncertain and wild ways of radical discipleship.

I wonder if what is innocuous to us is a way for us to say it would be too costly to my life to actually ponder the implications or ramifications of radical discipleship.

At any rate, the outcome will provide the young evangelical «righteous remnant» (the explicit terms, incidentally, in which they see themselves) with an excellent opportunity to «go the way of the cross,» paying the cost of radical discipleship.

So long as we obey the «biblical mandates of radical discipleship,» we can let God worry about where the chips fall.

Among the other services rendered by monastics, their pattern of radical discipleship is a powerful reminder of the call to be «in but not of the world.»

Not exact matches

European Christendom already appeared to be in terminal decay, and Kierkegaard's main purpose as a writer was to awaken his readers and to convince them of the necessity, and difficulty, of radical Christian discipleship.

Yet he combines this radical reformation vision of a church living the costly life of discipleship with a Roman Catholic emphasis on tradition, sacraments, and the importance of the virtues to the moral life.

Where is the church of Stanley Hauerwas» theology that calls for a radical, nonviolent discipleship?

If they do not have a specific «charism» of radical Christian discipleship, what's the point?

But no matter how broadly the image of discipleship is conceived, its foundation is radical commitment.

While not downplaying the importance of personal regeneration, the need for radical discipleship, or the call to the building - up of the church, I believe such emphases tend to obfuscate a genuine, Biblically centered social ethic.

Needed is a foundation for uniting a radical understanding of God's action in history with radical individual and corporate discipleship in the world — namely, reflection which results from depth experience, the spiritual life, the interiorization of faith through meditation, prayer and corporate worship.

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I know far, far more young Christians who are excited by G.K. Chesterton's invitation to the infinite wonder of orthodoxy, and by Dietrich Bonhoeffer's bracing call to radical holiness and discipleship.

A passionate argument that Christology should be transformed in terms of Christo - praxis, which means radical discipleship.

Moltmann feels that the future of the Protestant church in Europe lies not with the large state church, but with small communities of faith, where the charismatic gifts of all can be recognized, and where Christians can live out a radical discipleship.

And within that center we take seriously the Sermon on the Mount, believing that discipleship is a radical reorientation of lifestyle.