Sentences with phrase «people through the scriptures»

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Yet the way we encounter God in the Scriptures is through story — and story as told by people.

It's up to us, the regular, everyday people in the trenches of real life to speak the truth and tell our stories about the work God's doing in our lives and what He's saying to us through the Scriptures.

I gradually began to see that Christianity is not about solitary seekers after truth who just get together once in a while for a chat: other people are very much part of the divine scheme of things — even scripture has come down to us through the agency of other people.

But very often this constant awareness of spiritual climates enables us to also recognising the Lord's heart for a particular / person / situation and partner with Him in what He chooses to do through us, perhaps through prayer, releasing of scripture, laying hands, etc., in order to release His purpose and power.

In the post-colonial, post-Atlantic slave trade world, it is crucial that peoples who have historically benefited from the sale and plunder of black women's bodies, justifying those practices with their readings of scripture learn to hear and the scriptures in our voices and through our eyes.

OD «y, when you are quoting Scripture verses, remember, people are looking for the righteousness of God to shine through.

-- Try to convince people that God, through Scripture, is telling them to give money to support these things.

And indeed, mysticism — which I would define as practices intended to help connect a person to God through experience, intuition, contemplation, the devotional reading of Scripture, ritual, and prayer — has been a part of the Church from the very beginning.

I would argue that Scripture is read because God speaks to his people assembled to hear his Word through the readings as well as through the sermon.

Smith reminds readers of the idea of divine accommodation, which suggests that «in the process of divine inspiration, God did not correct every incomplete or mistaken viewpoint of the biblical authors in order to communicate through them with their readers... The point of the inspired scripture was to communicate its central point, not to straighten out every kink and dent in the views of all the people involved in biblical inscripturation and reception along the way.»

That said, my church has a Christian Fellowship within it — a group of people whose primary means of encountering the Holy is through Christian scripture, story, teaching and study.

While much of it remains a mystery and I do not know how it will all work out in God's economy or in eternity, we know from Scripture that each person on earth is given enough revelation from God to respond positively to Him, even if this revelation is only through creation and conscience.

Worse still — and more to the point of my concern — the translation of the one Word of God into direct social and political terms has meant that the churches neglect the message for which they do have sole responsibility, that which constitutes their specific raison d'etre, and which no other agency in the world is called on or is competent to proclaim: the gospel of Holy Scripture which has the power to make people wise unto salvation through faith in Christ Jesus (2 Timothy 3:15).

«To speak of God's Kingdom,» says Wright, «is thus to invoke God as the sovereign one who has the right, the duty, and the power to deal appropriately with evil in the world, in Israel, and in human beings, and thereupon to remake the world, Israel, and human beings... When full allowance is made for the striking differences of genre and emphasis within scripture, we may propose that Israel's sacred writings were the place where, and the means by which, Israel discovered again and again who the true God was, and how his Kingdom - purposes were being taken forward... Through scripture, God was equipping his people to serve his purposes.»

Preachers must be aware of the diversity of persons in their congregation, yet try to speak so that the Spirit, through scripture, addresses many hearts in ways that will be fitting to each, as different as these hearers are known to be from one another.

As long as the pastor is an accurate teacher of scripture and you find God speaking to you through that person, it is worth being a part of.

The problem is most people do not appear to think things through, even many Christians do not comprehend they must examine themselves not only in prayer, but in contemplation of God's self - revelation in Scripture and what His Will is for us at this moment.

In Paul's fresh reading of scripture the whole mysterious drama of God's election of Israel — Israel's hardening, the incorporation of gentiles into the people of God, and Israel's ultimate restoration — is displayed as foretold in scripture itself, but this foretelling can be recognized only when scripture is read through the hermeneutics of trust.

A true pastor - teacher is one who knows the primary way of feeding and caring for his flock is through faithful and systematic teaching of Scripture, while at the same time, the teaching of Scripture is not an end in itself which is solely an academic pursuit, but is for the purpose of loving and caring for other people.

As to your claim about the keys being used to determine moral right and wrong, I don't see that anywhere in Matthew 16 or Isaiah 22, and although the Jewish people may have understood this as referring to such judgments, they understood then (and even today) that moral judgments are made by God alone and through a proper understanding of what God has said in Scripture.

Admittedly, David, it took me a while to get past the idea of the scriptures being free of error or myth, but perhaps what I find true about the lot of it was that it was important to some people to pass it down through an oral tradition and then through written tradition (alongside the oral).

Regarding teaching Scripture, I once heard a person say, «We need to exegete the culture so we can dialogue with people through the metanarrative of Scripture.»

Regarding Scripture, I think what is vital for us today, as in all prior ages of God's saints — is the need to recognize these truths as «spirit and life» to us — to understand that God has indeed seen fit to speak through «common» things — written scripture, the communion, the «natural» majesty of creation and, ultimately, in the person of His Son — to reveal to us His character andScripture, I think what is vital for us today, as in all prior ages of God's saints — is the need to recognize these truths as «spirit and life» to us — to understand that God has indeed seen fit to speak through «common» things — written scripture, the communion, the «natural» majesty of creation and, ultimately, in the person of His Son — to reveal to us His character andscripture, the communion, the «natural» majesty of creation and, ultimately, in the person of His Son — to reveal to us His character and purpose.

... People who are being remade, judged and remolded by the Spirit through Scripture.

Also, as to the persons God sometimes prefers to speak through — as His «mouthpiece», so to say — I was reminded of the following Scripture.

At its heart, the movement that undergirds these written reflections arose out of the gatherings and shared reflections of the oppressed poor themselves, in groups called comunidades eclesiales de base — communities of the Christian wretched who met together to study scripture in light of their own impoverished situations and reflect on how each one informs the other (praxis).15 But our access to their groundbreaking work is through the printed page, and so I proceed with a full awareness that the persons under consideration here are as much reporters as originators.

Paganism, at least, believes in a natural law, and it is an easy jump from there, says C. S. Lewis, to teach people the divine law as recorded in Scripture and revealed through the gospel of Jesus Christ.

God continues to create new life through Jesus Christ wherever Scripture and sacrament reveal the truth about God's intention for the world to the people of God.

Preachers give evangelistic sermons where they tell people about the Gospel; evangelists go out to street corners and pass out gospel tracts while shouting Scriptures through a bull horn.

First, we must remember that in Scripture, and especially in Pauline theology, Jesus Christ is the ultimate elect one, and individual people become elect, not through an eternal divine decree from God, but by joining with Christ by faith.

This revelation may come through dreams and visions, through receiving the Scripture, or maybe even through you, as you faithfully proclaim the Gospel to your friends, neighbors, or to people around the world.

What if decisions were made, not based on what other churches or doing, not based on what the church has always done, not based on what the numerous church policies say, but instead only made after people had sought the truth of God through Scripture, the timing of God through prayer, and the leading of God through reliance on the Holy Spirit?

My role is to restore in the person a true sense of his or her own power, and to witness to and offer appropriately the power given to the church through baptism and Eucharist, scripture and prayer.

The Bible is inspired in that it reveals what God was whispering to people who wrote Scripture, and to people in other parts of the world who were also responding to the revelation which they had received from God (whether it be through creation or conscience).

Who are we to judge what God does or allows he has his reasons who can fathom his ways he sees the end from the beginning and is not limited to time or space like we are.Does God want anything the answer is Yes he wants a relationship with us that is why he sent his son because he had a purpose in creating us.However the wages of sin is death in this scripture alone regardless of what happens here we all deserve to die God could have wiped us all out with another flood for who of us is worthy.It is by grace that we live and yes bad things do happen to good people just as it does for the wicked is it to test our faith i do not know but i do know that God gives us the grace to endure through trials and difficulty and that all things do work for Good if we love him..

They attend to scripture; struggle to discern the gospel's call and demand on them and their congregations in particular contexts; lead worship, preach and teach; respond to requests for help of all kinds from myriad people in need; live with children, youth and adults through life cycles marked by both great joy and profound sadness; and take responsibility for the unending work of running an organization with buildings, budgets, and public relations and personnel issues.

Israelites went through the plagues of Egypt under Gods protection, the three young Hebrew men went through the fiery furnace under Gods protection, Daniel went through the lions den under Gods protection, Noah went through the flood in the ark under Gods protection and through out the scriptures you can find where Gods people went through this earth age under Gods protection.

The unity of Scripture lies in the central theme running through every book from Genesis to Revelation, which may be summarized in the Lord's word to Jeremiah: «I will be their God, and they shall be my people» (Jer.

And the onus is on us to keep taking steps toward Jesus and His people on a daily basis — through prayer, scripture, community and evangelism.

First of all, many times I'm considering an idea and I've found through my search for truths in scripture, the Spirit always reaffirms, in a timely manner, my ponderings through another person in either in a sermon, another writing, or an unexpected source.

Most of the people I meet as I travel around the country are people who grew up in Church and who long, with every ounce of their being, to remain faithful to the Church and to Scripture as they work through these difficult issues.

Scripture is rich with examples, such as Nehemiah, of how God has brought about hope, redemption, and recovery through the people of God in times of disaster.

The phenomena of Bible worship is seen here in the UK too, through classes where people memorise and chant sections of scripture over and over.

The book is a journey through scripture, with a focus on the sending of God's people.

Further, the participation of the people can be enhanced through the use of lay readers and preachers, congregational prayer responses, Scripture responses, antiphonal readings, affirmations of faith, acclamations, the kiss of peace, and increased sensitivity to gestures and movement.

As long as people have become educated, love God, love people, and look at all their philosophy and psychology through the grid of Scripture, I have no preference for either system.

Rather, they contend, the Anglican way of discerning truth is by means of communion itself, through the unity of a Scripture - immersed and sanctified people whose lives are shaped by the Church's ancient eucharistic worship and prayer.

So again, when we talk about discipleship and the unbeliever, we can see that no matter what a person believes or doesn't believe about God, Jesus, sin, Scripture, and a whole host of other Christian teachings, there is always room for us to talk with a person about what they believe (or don't believe) and hopefully bring them to a place that is somewhat closer to the truth revealed through Jesus Christ and in the Scriptures.

The question I always ask when the issue of biblical illiteracy comes up is: why, after decades of people sitting through week after week, hour after hour of sermons allegedly done to educate Christians on scripture, do some make a case that there is a «crisis» of Christians being biblically illiterate.

This is the truth presented in Scripture, and this is the view of God which will help people work through their depression and anxiety about life without giving in to suicide.