He was basically saying that our entire lives should be reflective
of our relationship with God.
Let's stop using it as a manipulative device, and allow it to be a means to connect with all aspects
of our relationship with God and with one another.»
I think it's more just a testament
of my relationship with God, and what He's done in my life and knowing that He's in control.
We also left the traditional church and looked for a different kind
of relationship with God in many places, before we re-discovered this new vision of Christianity taught by Father Thomas Keating and Ken Wilber.
manpower, funds, space) to the exclusion of other ideas, and it allows greater diversity in expression by avoiding the use of the «church vision» as the yardstick of validity instead
of the relationship with God.
Obedience to the divine law does not form the basis
of our relationship with God, but is rather the outcome of it.
And yet, there are many wonderful people in my life who seem to have a different kind
of relationship with God — one in which he gives them very specific orders about what to do.
In so doing he perhaps had in mind the words of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which reminds us that, «Created «in the image of God», man also expresses the truth
of his relationship with God the Creator by the beauty of his artistic works» before further explaining that, «To the extent that it is inspired by truth and love of beings, art bears a certain likeness to God's activity in what he has created.
We may even see them as a part
of our relationship with God.
Apart from prayer, evidence also suggests that many people continue to value highly their sense
of a relationship with God, and many feel they are close to God.
Abraham was not justified by works of the Law, nor by circumcision, because he lived long before the Law was given, and his circumcision followed and did not precede the establishment
of his relationship with God.
But what creates the very possibility
of a relationship with God is Jesus» death that was overturned in the resurrection.
The story of creation is not about the beginning of the Earth but about the beginning
of our relationship with God.
Which when it comes to his ecclesia Jesus clearly taught against hierarchy, position titles, and using spiritual gifts to make money his teaching on those topics was the antithesis of power and commercialization
of relationship with God.
Form - giving is what allowed the Word to dwell among us, full of grace and the truth
of our relationship with God.
But, I try to let it go because I know people are in different points
of their relationship with God.
One is: «Is everybody in some sort
of relationship with God?»
What I am saying is that outside
of a relationship with God, you never get a glimpse of complete love.
The beauty
of relationship with God is that each individual experiences it quite differently.
It connotes something beyond the morality of the particular act, namely fidelity or rejection
of relationship with God.
With sensitivity the priest endeavours to bring the penitent to see the true consequences of their action, which includes the wounding
of their relationship with God, the Church and the wider human community.
These songs did not at all reflect how I relate to God and are what the more cynical amongst us call «Jesus is my boyfriend» songs — in other words a lot of sentimental mush where people claim a rather too human type
of relationship with God
When really, the mature Christians (who are more aware of their sin then others and in turn need God's grace even more) instead of investing in making church to appear like their own lives will naturally appear to most because
of their relationship with God is more... advanced... should invest in mentoring and loving those newer in their faith and being real and honest with them.
But the NT is about moving to a higher level
of relationship with God.
Much of the older liberal criticism of Anselm's theory derives from a semi-Pelagianism which produces an inadequate sense of the seriousness of sin and the brokenness
of our relationship with God.
When we make a moral decision we are also determining the nature
of our relationship with God.
Joy, peace, and love are a result
of a relationship with God.
The soul, as it came to be, was something new, a pinnacle, allowing new possibilities
of relationship with God.
Thus, in a relational view, the ongoing, ever - new, interdependent quality
of our relationship with God is given strong emphasis.
There are better ways to understand the cross that fit with who we know Jesus to be in the inward experience
of our relationship with God and with the witness of Scripture.
It lies in the maturing
of our relationship with God.
The new possibilities for interrelationship among men, and especially
of relationship with God, for which we may hope, are already foreshadowed and embodied in him.
But theologically this is what it means to be made in the image of God — that our human relationships are mirrors
of our relationship with God.
In the conclusion of the last chapter I spoke
of a relationship with God which gave to our human existence its value and worth.
Christians are always faced with the temptation to overrate the opinion of other human beings, and to try to be pleasing to other people, to the peril
of their relationship with God (see John 5:44, Gal.
The whole point of these lessons we're supposed to learn is the idea that one day we become fathers, that we will grow up and have the same knowledge and experience of our fathers, sometimes more than but in terms
of our relationship with god, we're supposed to accept that we're eternally children, that as much as we learn, grow and generally build upon past knowledge, we'll never attain the level of understanding or power that god has, this being is on a completely different level.
The central feature of the message of Jesus is, then, the challenge of the forgiveness of sins and the offer of the possibility of a new kind
of relationship with God and with one's fellow man.
For many Christians, mindfulness sits comfortably alongside their faith theologically, biblically and in terms
of their relationship with God.
So in Man matter is raised into the supernatural realm
of relationship with God through the Word made flesh.
Think
of your relationship with God like any other human relationship.
Dating upward proposes that to fully engage in the exchange of love with another human being, you must first experience it within the context
of a relationship with God.
Impressive schools of faith emerged from Vatican II, which are targeting the revitalisation
of our relationship with God.
I believe salvation is a side effect
of your relationship with God.
And while our salvation is secure in Christ, the quality
of our relationship with God can be damaged through the existence of sin in our lives.
If the only manifestation inwardly
of his relationship with God was to pray for sick friends and such, then there wasn't much relationship there.
Imagine I was in your accountability group and I felt my smoking habit was getting in the way
of my relationship with God, so you decided to help me beat it.
You have no idea
of his relationship with his God.
Knowing the bible is the milk
of our relationship with God, knowing Christ is the meat
of our relationship with God.
I totally understand to someone outside of that kind
of relationship with God, the book is mere sentiment — laughable pap.
Especially as pastors, it's easy to individually lose sight
of our relationship with God b / c everyday at work, we're looking at biblical texts or looking at some lesson, or talking with someone else about God.