Sentences with phrase «public confession»

They believe that baptism is merely an act of obedience or of public confession of the personal faith, after someone has become a believer.

For instance, how does one treat disclosures made in churches that practice public confession in front of the congregation?

Most of our worship services include public confession and forgiveness.

Now, we've got a confession — and a very public confession.

You, dear friends, can't rely on some wandering, set - up - to - die goat to do your bidding - which is why you are commanded to make public confessions in synagogue during Yom Kippur.

This film is Joe Berlinger's twelfth feature documentary, and in it he goes behind the scenes at Date With Destiny to capture the emotional self - examination, human psychology and heartbreaking public confessions that occur every year at this life - altering event.

The Commonwealth Bank admitted last night that it lost the financial statements of nearly 20 million accounts in 2016, the first public confession of the data breach.

She practiced what she preached in a separate thread, in which she used Twitter for a little public confession and repentance (there's a novel use of social media), asking God for forgiveness for «ways I've been complicit in & contributed to misogyny & sexism in the church by my cowardly and inordinate deference to male leaders in order to survive.»

There are sins that are private, only between God and us, but there are those that demand public confession in order to get forgiveness.

It was a human place; a place where people spent a lot of time with their mouths open in song and their eyes closed in prayer; a place to see human nature stripped down to essentials as young romances began with smiles and ended with tearful public confessions; a place for a boy's spirit to be roused and forever stranded between the love and the fear of God as he watched an occasional man or woman «get happy» in the Lord; a place to learn.

«I'm a believer in public confession if we know what we're confessing,» says Adrian Reynolds, director of ministry at the Proclamation Trust.

So while it's understandable to respect a would - be «public servant» who comes clean, is it too much to ask or to hold out for a candidate who has lived a life of integrity to best of his / her ability, so that public confession becomes unnecessary?

Big public confessions for me.

The timing of his more public confession this time around is coincidental with Cebulski's first day as Marvel head.

We confess «I believe» with the baptismal (Apostles») Creed, because the focus is on the individual's public confession of faith.

He should make public confession to God and man of past wrongdoing and be willing to ask God for guidance in the future.

I am not soliticing a public confession, but if you have a secret porn stash, like many heterosexual homophobes do, then your imaginings are hypocritical, IMO.

We do our best to prevent members from crossing their fingers during a public confession.

Then they would have been paraded (once the bruises had faded) to make a public confession of their error, before being sent to live on a remote pig farm or perhaps executed.

What must be avoided is public confession of sin that runs into exhibitionism.

Some of these women make a public confession, but others are ashamed to do this, and in silence, as if withdrawing from themselves the hope of the life of God, they either apostatize entirely or hesitate between the two courses» (Against Heresies 1:22 [A.D. 189]-RRB-.

Not sure what's funnier — the fact that people might actually believe this app can cleanse them of their «sins»... or the fact that people might actually believe that a public confession can cleanse them of their «sins»!

They even went so far as to say that a believer need not be a professed Muslim, for faith is a confession of the heart while Islam is an outward or public confession of the tongue.

She makes a public confession of sin, saying she has «idolized relationships above all.»

Sunday school rooms all around spilled into a sanctuary where pews were arranged on either side of a central aisle that led to a pulpit and an altar — for to us education led to worship, and worship to public confession and commitment.

I made my public confession of faith there.

I wonder if the belief does refer to the public confession of belief.

Luther dispensed with closed confession for Protestants; the Catholics continued it, but are now discussing open or public confession, while some Protestants are considering the reintroduction of closed confession!

Or is he saying that we should never desire such things because the ideal is a merely civil public square, with the public confession, profession, and worship of the True Religion relegated to the private sphere for both religion and society's own good?

Did you know that about 95 % of people who respond to an alter call are already «saved» but terrfied that they may have got it wrong so feel it essential to make another public confession in order that God will spare them from hell.

Certainly it did not lead to a public confession in the market place or the coliseum nor any obviously heroic notion.

This is commonly expressed by the use of special «Christian «names, which are frequently viewed positively as a public confession of one's faith.

The ritual of public confession is so formulaic in American culture that it's hard to imagine that someone as media savvy as Rush Limbaugh doesn't know how to do it.

In a new twist on the «drag your wife out to your public confession of adultery» meme, televangelist Marcus Lamb has his wife confess his adultery for him: The confession was apparently prompted to preempt extortionists who were threatening to break the news unless Lamb coughed up $ 7.5....

In the image that C. Kavin Rowe uses for the title of his brilliant explication of Acts, the public confession of the lordship of the risen Christ creates what the world thinks of as a «world upside down,» but what Christians understand to be the world seen truly.

«Consequent upon the public confessions of these vicious and notorious killer squad to the killings in cold blood of more than Eleven (11) innocent people in Kwara State and other States of the Federation, the statutory procedure and practice in the Force is that such a heinous crime and capital offence is transferred to the Force Headquarters for further investigation.

Fortunately for Chopra, although ignorance of the law is famously no excuse in court, ignorance of the laws of nature is, and would almost certainly trump his public confession.

The play's power lies in its insight into the thrill of public confession — and the complex intersection of politics and psychology in the media.

Of course it is better not to notice the story of the pilot who landed airbus on the water, saved peoples lives, was given a medal and then made a public confession that he is not paid enough money to have a decent life.

Her other hugely successful novels include Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years (1993), The Public Confessions of a Middle - Aged Woman (Aged 55 >)(2001), Number Ten (2002), Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years (2009), The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year (2012).

Esther Naorʼs work freezes the cycle of our unstable age, distilling our anxieties into a public confession of the worldʼs afflicted, lonely, redemptive common ground.