Sentences with phrase «of sacrificial service»

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.

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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.