Sentences with phrase «personal salvation»

Second, there is the fact that the Christian message was initially a gospel of personal salvation.

The last things provide the public context in which hope for personal salvation is located.

The service focused as much on social equality as on personal salvation and speakers talked about issues facing the community.

There are several reasons for this; the most important is my own personal salvation experience.

Of course, if the self - destruction of the species is inevitable, I prefer that as many individuals as possible find personal salvation despite the encompassing horrors.

Much emphasis is placed upon personal salvation to escape divine judgment, and less on making this a better place for all to live in.

The primary focus of most Christian theology has been on personal salvation.

A preoccupation with personal salvation at the expense of Christian social concern.

This echoes the emphasis of Reinhold Niebuhr in the postwar years that we can not seek personal salvation in separation from the salvation of society from injustice.

The «salvation» pictured was also historically concrete and actual, involving a range of dimensions from personal salvation and transformation through all kinds of social agencies and reform from credit unions for the poor to day care centers for working mothers.

According to McKnight, «the word gospel has been hijacked by what we believe about personal salvation.»

Chesler also points out that psychotherapy and marriage exercise a similar function for a woman — as vehicles for personal salvation through a benevolent male authority:

Jack — Regarding personal salvation: This gets us to the topic of atonement theory.

He himself was emphatic that we can not seek personal salvation in separation from the salvation of society from injustice.

Should LifeWay carry books and tracts that communicate personal salvation in such non-biblical, non-historically Christian terms?

Mormonism teaches that Jesus suffered for our sins in the Garden of Gethsemane, providing personal salvation (which may mean exaltation to godhood) conditional upon our obedience to the laws and ordinances of the LDS gospel.

Your belief is predicated solely on fear and the selfish need to achieve personal salvation.

Christians should learn from the Buddhist Bodhisattva symbolizing compassion and mercy, one who is willing to postpone personal salvation for the sake of others.

Obama is a progressive Christian who blends the emotional fire of the African - American church, the ecumenical outlook of contemporary Protestantism, and the activism of the Social Gospel, a late 19th - century movement whose leaders faulted American churches for focusing too much on personal salvation while ignoring the conditions that led to pervasive poverty.

But this revelation also provided an end, viz. personal salvation and eternal life.

He is the supreme revealer of God, through whom God is known, personal salvation comes to men, and society is changed in the direction of a fuller embodiment of the principle of love.

Zwingli and his compatriots, however, went too far in their zeal to place as much distance as possible between personal salvation and ritual.

First, Jesus did NOT advocate collectivism — he advocated personal salvation from sin, love of others, and evangelism — not collectivism — that is modern, leftist, liberation theology and it's a governmental disaster — always.

The descent of the Spirit signaled an unprecedented condition in which personal salvation and the imposition of the politics of the kingdom of God on the world political scene were but two sides of the same coin.

This is just as true for those who believe that their personal extinction is permanent in death as it is for those who anticipate personal salvation in a heaven where suffering and sin are no more.

For Calvin, the chief concern was not with a self - centered personal salvation, but with the glory of God.

All the artists share similar productive tensions within their practices: direct or hinted at autobiographical references synthesise with a distant, controlled aesthetic and emotional restraint; the obsolescence of the image is contrasted with the image as a source of hope, and even personal salvation; the apparent stability and naturalness of landscape is set against the urban environment and modern architectural practice and its accelerated entropy.

For example, the truth of the doctrine of Jesus as Lord and Savior is held by all cultures within the church, but perhaps the worship of God in a multi-ethnic church would include African American theology of a Christ that delivers people out of bondage and the European American theology of individualistic personal salvation.

According to McKnight, contemporary evangelicals have built a «salvation culture,» rather than a «gospel culture» in which the good news is reduced to a message of personal salvation.

It's a book about the gospel,» I said, «about how modern Christians have misunderstood it to be all about personal salvation, when it's more about the story of Jesus.»

Even the biblical account of the last judgment can be used to feed into this preoccupation with personal salvation.

Priorities generally focus on personal salvation, spiritual growth, biblical knowledge and the affairs of local religious communities instead of God's providence in American history.

Rollie you wrote «Regarding personal salvation: This gets us to the topic of atonement theory.»

You believe in a Jesus who is integral to personal salvation in the afterlife, but is useless for the life we live now.

«I have interviewed persons who have talked specifically with Glenn about his personal salvation - persons extremely well known in Christianity - and they have affirmed (using language evangelicals understand), «Glenn is saved,»» Garlow said in his memo, which was dated Wednesday.

Their ultimate purpose is differnt - Christians believe in personal salvation from God that cares about each individual — but the process is actually very similar.

Belief in these gods is suppose to be about more than just the cowardly and selfish pursuit of personal salvation, isn't it?

Thus, although the church is highly institutionalized,, the emphasis is on personal salvation.

But... but... this would mean that my personal salvation and my reward in heaven is a lie!

The first phase of the Reformation focused on issues relating to personal salvation and the need for reform in the life of the church.