Sentences with phrase «ongoing life of faith»

In contrast, the confessional Lutheran tradition «emphasizes, not a momentary decision to convert, but instead the process of becoming a Christian and thus the ongoing life of faith.

Human sexuality can, in Bonhoeffer's words, «keep a ground - base of joy alive» in all of us, and in this way prepare us for, and help sustain us within, our ongoing life of faith.

Finally, play can keep that gracious «ground - base of joy» alive in all of us, and so prepare us for, and help sustain us within, our ongoing life of faith.

Not exact matches

The factors of chief importance in the development of this theology were: (a) the Old Testament — and Judaism --(b) the tradition of religious thought in the Hellenistic world, (c) the earliest Christian experience of Christ and conviction about his person, mission, and nature — this soon became the tradition of the faith or the «true doctrine» — and (d) the living, continuous, ongoing experience of Christ — only in theory to be distinguished from the preceding — in worship, in preaching, in teaching, in open proclamation and confession, as the manifestation of the present Spiritual Christ within his church.

And if we do believe it, then, as the definition of living by faith says, this belief, this ongoing faith, will result in actions, will result in Christ - honoring works.

If you have received this grace through repentance of sin, you have an eternal faith relationship with The Lord Christ Jesus, He dwells in you, you die to self, and it is Christ that lives in you, therefore your works are of Christ, and this is an ongoing, daily process.

It's extremely likely that the only significant, ongoing dissent to sexual liberationist orthodoxy will come from religious people and the institutions they run for the sake of living out their faith.»

From them we glean what has previously been indicated as basic notes in the understanding of the kingdom: the timeless kingship, or kingly rule, of God; an ongoing and present kingdom to be entered and lived in by accepting God's sovereign rule in obedient response; and a final victory of God which is in God's hands, though he calls us to labor in faith and love for its coming.

There is the aspect of eternal life which is the free gift of God to all who simply and only believe in Jesus for it, and then there is the ongoing, daily experience of eternal life, which is called «inheriting» eternal life, which is through living by faith.

But Christian faith and human experience reveal that there is a treasuring of the passing goods of life, as each passing event gives itself to and becomes a part of the ongoing movement of life, and as every movement of time finds its particular niche in eternity.

The Church teaches us that there are three stages in Christian formation: receiving the faith proclaimed, catechesis and then ongoing adult formation for the rest of our lives.

Christian theology is an attempt to follow up, as it were, the ongoing process of development of the faith by which, as a matter of ascertainable fact, Christian people do actually live.

Yet even on these terms it should remain possible for an interpretive community to make a conscious decision to hear the Bible as scripture, to believe in the coercive and constraining force of the Bible's own unique literary construction, and to regard itself as trying to live out the demands of a word and a God that stand over it, in continuity with communities of faith within the Bible and in the church's ongoing history of interpretation.

In any event, each of us must speak of faith out of the racial, sexual, personal and historical context in which we experience the ongoing process of life.

But, as so often happens to kids who grew up in church, when I reached young adulthood, I started to question a lot of what I was taught about faith and life and ever since then, doubt has been an ongoing presence in my life.

About Site - The Free Methodist Church is a movement of Christian congregations all across our country that are committed to sharing the good news of faith in Jesus Christ and encouraging believers into a life of ongoing transformation that impacts our families, our communities and our nation.

Canada About Blog The Free Methodist Church is a movement of Christian congregations all across our country that are committed to sharing the good news of faith in Jesus Christ and encouraging believers into a life of ongoing transformation that impacts our families, our communities and our nation.

Since then, my professional life has been a crash course in marketing, a mix of constant research and the ongoing leap of faith that I knew how to reach my audience.

Canada About Blog The Free Methodist Church is a movement of Christian congregations all across our country that are committed to sharing the good news of faith in Jesus Christ and encouraging believers into a life of ongoing transformation that impacts our families, our communities and our nation.

Canada About Blog The Free Methodist Church is a movement of Christian congregations all across our country that are committed to sharing the good news of faith in Jesus Christ and encouraging believers into a life of ongoing transformation that impacts our families, our communities and our nation.