Sentences with phrase «organized body of believers»

Further, belief is seen to have a concrete social base in the organized body of believers.

Racial discrimination can never be wholly acceptable to a people who have heard from their youth that God has «made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth...» (Acts 17:26) There is no evidence or even likelihood that this testimony would have been preserved apart from the action of the organized body of believers.

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We may arrange «a group of professing believers in Jesus who have been baptized and have organized themselves under the leadership of elders and deacons for the purpose of carrying out the Great Commission; for conducting the ordinances of baptism and the Lord's Supper; for building up of the Body through the worship of God, the fellowship of believers, the teaching of the Word, and the exercise of spiritual gifts» and still not be receiving the presence of Christ.

Without a doubt, this represents a new crisis for organized religion, a challenge to think again about what it means to be a «body» of believers.