Sentences with phrase «proclamation of the good news»

We should imitate God, whose works are always justice, truth and mercy.22 Indeed, Pope Francis clearly states that the joyful proclamation of the Good News, which includes marriage, is «to communicate more effectively the truth of the Gospel in a specific context, without renouncing the truth.»

The believer must first realize that he or she is to stick to the simple proclamation of the Good News as the first utterance, instead of allowing Hume or Kant or Heidegger to set the agenda unilaterally.

It is the proclamation of good news.

It is not quite accurate to say that he took the gospel of Jesus — that is, the message which Jesus himself had preached and taught — and made it over into the gospel about Jesus; for that is what the Christian message had been all along, from the very beginning of the Christian movement, ever since the assembling of the disciples after the Resurrection and their first proclamation of the good news about Jesus.

Their intent is that there will be an ongoing confession of generations of believers, an ongoing proclamation of the good news.

Second: comprehensive understanding, i.e., proclamation of the good news of the Kingdom of God with broader meaning (cf. Luke 4:16 - 21), erecting signs of the Kingdom of God in this temporal world, inspired by God's Word, pointing to the eventual human salvation and the second coming of Christ the Savior.

A word that once stood for faithfulness to historic orthodox Christian faith and a commitment to personal holiness, to the proclamation of the good news, and to ministries of compassion and justice has been hijacked by those on the right and the left who have narrowed the meaning to «white Republican.»

Women were considered unreliable witnesses at the time (a fact that may explain why the apostle Paul omitted the women from the resurrection account entirely in his letter to the Corinthian church), so their proclamation of the good news was dismissed by the men as an «idle tale,» the type of silly gossip typical of uneducated women.

The paper by Canaan Banana of Zimbabwe was on the connection between the struggle of liberation from poverty and the proclamation of the Good News.

The proclamation of the Good News is the announcement that the Kingdom of God is at hand, a challenge to repent and an invitation to believe, the report said.

It is to such as these that Jesus» proclamation of the Good News of freedom and justice was delivered first and foremost.

The proclamation of the good news of divine love, of the forgiveness of sin and the deliverance from evil; exhortation to lead the Christian life; instruction of young and old in the Christian faith — these evidently require not only that the minister have heard and apprehended the gospel, comprehended the law and learned the creed, but that he have gained insight into the ways of God and men and that he grow continually in his understanding of them; that further he have grasped the meaning of preaching and teaching in relation to all the other activities he and the Church carry on.

Perhaps the earliest paradigm of mission may be characterised as evangelism; the proclamation of the Good News of Jesus Christ.

Not exact matches

However, many mission readings of Matthew 28:18 20 today still carry the influence of the term «heathen» which clashes with modern understandings of «ethne» as nations, and thus distorts the thrust of mission as the proclamation and practice of the good news.

When the proclamation of the «good news» has ended, there is no conclusion of the matter in a very serious sense the proclamation continues to be effectual as both requiring and empowering a life that is «in Christ» and hence a life in which the believer is to express in all that he or she says or does the reality of the divine Love in which that person is now a participant.

First: traditional understanding, which is seemingly closer to the literal meaning of the word, i.e., proclamation of the Biblical good news (= euanggelion), witnessing, soul - winning, bringing people to Christ, propagation of Christian...

With this in mind, preachers of the «good news» needs always to remember that in their proclamation of that which in Christ God has «determined, dared, and done» (in Christopher Smart's compelling words) they are speaking not just for the contemporary Church but for the whole body of faithful people.

With this ordained ministry in its function of proclamation of the «good news» or gospel of Jesus Christ this present book is concerned.

In this book we have discussed various aspects of the preaching of the gospel or the proclamation of the «good news» about the originating event of Jesus Christ, as I have consistently called it.

What makes the Christian Gospel good news is its proclamation of the reality of God's redeeming grace.

He came, says Mark (1:14 - 15), «preaching the gospel of God»; and the proclamation ends; with an exhortation to «repent, and believe in the gospel,» that is, the good news (Anglo - Saxon godspel).

All three of the Synoptic Gospels, in one form or another, represent him as calling his proclamation good news.

Along the way, he raises a host of theological issues upon which the proclamation of the gospel as good news hinges.

Preaching is proclaiming the good news of transforming love, but the proclamation can be heard only if it is directly related to the dilemmas, problems, and decisions which people face in their daily lives.

So a priest can not speak or think of his or her Eucharist; a preacher can not speak or think of his or her preaching, his or her sermon, his or her proclamation of the «good news» about God's decisive action in Jesus Christ.

That is the appropriate context for whatever we may wish to say about the duty of preaching or the proclamation of the «good news.»

It is the gift of God for the salvation of the world through the proclamation of the evangel of good news to all men.

Certainly in parts of the United States a more forthright proclamation of all aspects of the Good News, including the challenging area of Catholic sexual ethics, has led to renewal and growth.

Evangelisation as context (cf EN 18) Three stages of Evangelisation: • Initial proclamation, • Catechesis • On - going formation «Evangelisation means the carrying forth of the Good News to every sector of the human race so that by its strength it may enter into the hearts of men and renew the human race.

• Initial proclamation, • Catechesis • On - going formation «Evangelisation means the carrying forth of the Good News to every sector of the human race so that by its strength it may enter into the hearts of men and renew the human race.