Sentences with phrase «participating church bodies»

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Seventh and finally, the song of redemptive hope, of the resurrection of the body; of our bodies that encompass the stuff of the creation of which we are part; of our bodies that participate in the body of Christ that is the Church, and therefore anticipate, already now, that perfect communion with God for which the whole creation waits with eager longing.

Overall, he has produced an impressive body of work which, thankfully, demonstrates that liturgical arts (which Schickel prefers to call «ritual arts» because «it stresses the way in which these objects participate in the drama of religious ritual») can be tastefully done in a modern idiom without lapsing into the triteness or sentimentality that plagues so many of our newer churches.

This understanding includes sacramental communion with Jesus, especially in baptism and eucharist, but also communion among all the members of the Church, who participate in that communion with Jesus, as well as the local congregations that participate in the one body of Christ, the universal Church.

But in the mystical body of the Church, the surplus humanity that Christ finds in each of the members of this his body is called upon, insofar as each is a part of the whole, to participate in the work of this body, which is the redemption continued throughout time.

We submit ourselves to Christ of our own free will and participate in the body of the Church of our own free will.

But it appears to me that in other areas pertaining to church life, the good Lord actually wants us to participate more aggressively in bringing about this death that ushers in this eagerly anticipated «new life within the Body of Christ.»

Regardless of what is happening among biological kin in any given week, members of the Body of Christ are helped by remembering that God loves and forgives them as they participate in the incarnation; the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ; the birth of the church; and the giving of the Holy Spirit.

Towns maintained a minister at public expense, it is true, but all inhabitants, including vocal Quakers, Baptists, and Presbyterians, participated in his selection, «with the result that the minister's theological difficulties were usually with the civil body rather than with the church.