Sentences with phrase «own body of believers»

The term is a symbolic reference to a body of believers who will peacefully and lovingly serve God and serve others, not bring destruction on anyone who is not a Christian.

There are many problems in churches find one with a body of believers who believe Jesus is God's son, the Bible is true, and where they love one another.

«On an issue on which the whole body of believers finds so many unresolvable questions, I find it unacceptable to force a large number of our members to face this dilemma.»

I believe the body of believers in Acts devoted themselves to the apostle's teaching, prayer, fellowship and the breaking of bread together.

ekklēsia) is the universal body of believers that functions under the headship of Jesus Christ and meets regularly in local assemblies to carry out the Great Commission through observing the ordinances of Baptism and the Lord's Supper and listening to the preaching of the Word of God, all for the edification of the believer and the evangelism of the world.

I know there is no perfect church, leader or body of believers.

Or on a lesser scale, whole bodies of believers.

I do however, believe that in order to continue to remain healthy, I should be knit in with a local body of believers.

The objection is often made that a demon can not dwell in the body of a believer because the believer's body is the «temple of the Holy Spirit».

Her book, The Spiritual Lives of Young African Americans, explores what this population can teach the wider body of believers about integrating faith and activism.

It is personal: that is, it does not come through the body of believers, as such, but is known to the individual...

Now God is done with the Nation of Israel, and is focused on the divine Israel, the 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.

«The race or ethnicity of that couple is never a valid reason and any local body of believers who rejects a couple on those grounds should be reprimanded.»

As a body of believers, it does seem like anger, sadness, and hurt are not tolerated very well.

In fact, all throughout Scripture we're encouraged to invest in significant relationships within the body of believers.

However, the path of the person that has eschewed all religious organizations is one that is meandering and largely inefficient, and the unfortunate result of not of the religion or the belief itself, but of the way in which bodies of believers function within society.

God's vision for the church has always comprised a global body of believers proclaiming the gospel on every continent and in every corner of the world.

Our congregation is beginning the process of finding «Gods mission» for our body of believers.

ecclēsia) is the universal body of believers that functions under the headship of Jesus Christ and meets regularly in local assemblies to carry out the Great Commission through observing the ordinances of Baptism and the Lord's Supper and listening to the preaching of the Word of God, all for the edification of the believer and the evangelism of the world.

As a result, even our pastor is starting to realize that what started out as «a class» to have a beginning and ending point, is now a body of believers who don't want to leave the gathering, but to continue growning in a much more comfortable, meaningful setting than they have been used to in the church - building - lecture - learned way of doing things.

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

However, when an Evangelist is properly functioning in the life of a church they are helping to identify and train other evangelists that will be connected to that body of believers and providing daily encouragement and help in equipping God's people.

So, in the spirit of Unity and with the Hope of being a small part of a healthy body of believers, I've started to ask myself: Does what I'm about to say make me sound like a douche?

But, he knew he had the right team around him to build a body of believers... they must have tested his patience and endurance many times... but he believed in them and never faltered from his own path.

This helps confirm the meaning of the «spiritual body» of the resurrection of 1 Cor 15: it is the corporate body of Israel rather than the personal body of the believer.

And together, as a unified church, as a body of believers under the direction of Christ the head, Paul says we are the fullness of him who fills everything in every way or the fullness of him who fills all in all.

The new liturgical ideal, based on early Christian precedent, was the «gathered church,» a body of believers that comes together for fellowship and participatory worship.

the Protestant answers: the body of believers, the church.

The missionaries for the most part seem to have worked in groups and to have formed around them a nucleus of new believers, amongst whom some would be appointed, probably with the consent of the whole body of believers, as elders (Acts 14:23, Ja.

I have spoken to several women who had to leave the church — and the ones who chose to stay — and it's a tragic thing to watch a body of believers strip one another of dignity and vocation and calling in the name of God.

one between the risen Jesus Christ who has come to claim His bride, the worldwide body of believers.

The first one takes place between Adam and Eve and the last one between the risen Jesus Christ who has come to claim His bride, the worldwide body of believers.

We no longer submit to man's rules and regulations, and we realize that the Church is the body of believers and not a place we go.

Paul means that there is one body of believers.

Sermon formation truly begins, then, when the body of believers, not just the preacher alone, listens for God's address in Scripture.

Another kind of community regularly comes alive in David Landry's sermons; the body of believers that either foreshadows or gives rise to the sermon's scriptural text.

Maritain does not believe that Christianity exists in the world solely as the Church or the body of believers.

The only thing God has His fingerprints on is His body of believers.

But don't consider this your evangelism unless you are also joining with people from your own body of believers.

In a plant like ours, we are small and simply don't have enough mass yet to do very many things, and so I have been doing some teaching on the universal body of believers, which is call «Big C Church,» and how we can be involved in other churches in town to get what we ourselves can not offer.

The New Testament teaches that each LOCAL body of believers is to be separate from other bodies, with no common leader other than God and Jesus.

But it is not the foundation of God's body of believers.

The Church can not sanction any act of sex outside of true, ie male / female, marriage, because it directly goes against the Church's primary vocation as the Bride of Christ, i.e. that Body of believers who spend their lives seeking «him whom my soul loves» (Sg 3:3) and making him the first priority of their lives.

The TRUE CHURCH is not the buidling, but the BODY OF BELIEVERS that «believes on Him and His WORD - THE BIBLE.»

I am referring to the body of believer's that make up His church.

It is with this type of worship that we are concerned in this chapter — and appropriately so, because it is the type of worship which provides the best setting for the preaching of the gospel or Word of God, while at the same time it is the type of worship which best delivers the body of believers from complete dependence upon the minister to whom is committed by the Church both the preaching of the gospel and the conduct of the divine service itself.

Even in Taprobane [Ceylon] an island in further India, where the Indian sea is, there is a Church of Christians, with clergy and a body of believers, but I know not whether there be any Christians in the parts beyond it.

Buddhism speaks of what is sometimes rather loosely translated as the Church, but this approximates more nearly to the monastic groups of Christians than to the entire body of believers, lay, clerical, monastic, and non-monastic, as is the case in Christianity.

Obviously there are social benefits that come as a result of gathering together, but a church that is so inwardly focused that it resembles a club more than a body of believers seeking to incarnate God's will in the world, is not something I'm looking for.