Sentences with phrase «priority of grace»

Christians today often de-emphasize the importance of works because we don't want to diminish the priority of grace in salvation.

Over against what he perceives to be Weigel's giving too much away to Protestant ideas of communion as personal friendship and encounter, Cavadini reasserts the sacramental priority of grace as grounded in the connection between Christ as primordial sacrament and the church as sacrament (the Totus Christus).

Third, the structure of the sermon demonstrates the theological priority of grace.

The priority of grace is unquestionable, but what we have become by grace through faith should result in good works for God's glory and in the service of our fellows.

Not exact matches

Almost all affirm human participation in the decisions that shape spiritual destiny while affirming also the priority and primacy of grace.

Sin is forseen and accounted for in the eternal counsels of the Trinity, for we have redemption «through His blood, such is the richness of the grace He has showered upon us» (Ephesians 1:6), but the order of priority is plain.

I believe that cultivating a culture of grace should be the main priority of the church, universal, as well.

Only when we become true practitioners of forgiveness, and understand our indebtedness to God whom we can never repay, will we recognize that God's grace demands our highest priority and sacrificial loyalty.

Barth reverses the emphasis on a static understanding of God and God's grace and gives priority to revelation as a dramatic self - giving in history.

The gospel has priority over politics, but one misses the gospel if one ignores its vision of a new society predicated on liberating grace.

Under the amendments, the grace period will be allowed to run to one year before the priority date, such that the invention can still be patented if its priority application was filed within one year of the disclosure.

«When people walk closely with other people, it's the grace of God - and if we carry the priority of loving and serving our friends, we'll impart life.»