Sentences with phrase «purpose of the church in»

His first function is that of building or «edifying» the church; he is concerned in everything that he does to bring into being a people of God who as a Church will serve the purpose of the Church in the local community and the world.

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Then why do I, a man that has been inside a few churches in his lifetimes solely for the purpose of absorbing the lovely architecture of lovely buildings across the globe in different societies, know more about world religion than you do and the rest of your flock?

Church should be for the purpose of rejoicing and giving thanks and praise to The Lord of all creation, and to know and love the people in our church family, not to love the music or the paChurch should be for the purpose of rejoicing and giving thanks and praise to The Lord of all creation, and to know and love the people in our church family, not to love the music or the pachurch family, not to love the music or the pastors.

«It should be troubling — to «progressive» Catholics as well as others — that political operatives like John Podesta, who has been associated with Clinton campaigns and administrations for decades, admits that his organization set up (with funding from the Koch Brothers... I mean, George Soros) groups with the purpose of promoting a «revolution» — a «Catholic Spring» — «in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic church.»

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints provides relief and development projects for humanitarian purposes in countries all over the world.

Slowly, the values of the nation were slipping away and families and churches were not able to specify values and influence behavior in the way that they used to when all people believed in unified purpose.

Church buildings can be used in wonderful ways to accomplish the mission and purposes of God on earth.

All of us are interested in salvation, but all of us have interests in the church that frequently lie outside the church's chief purpose.

Church, just like Sabbath, is to serve us in our purpose of restoring joy, dignity, and peace to the earth.

But just as Sabbath was created to help the Hebrew people fulfill their mission and purpose in the world, so also, church was created to help followers of Jesus fulfill our mission and purpose in the world.

It is the religiosity from church growth books, membership duties, vain promises that our Savior rebelled against in His day as Son of God, Son of Man, Let scripture super exceed any of mans futile attempts to be purpose driven, or a «church Member»

Serving humanity is considered a main purpose of the Christian community, and a number of excellent service enterprises find their source in the new energy that this progressive church has tapped.

While the primary purpose of a quinquennial General Conference session is to conduct business, it is also a celebration of Adventism and its progress; a «fair» where church publishers, departments, educational and medical institutions and unofficial «self - supporting ministries» show their wares and garner support; an old - fashioned revival meeting; and a «family gathering» where church employees, in particular, meet former schoolmates and colleagues.

Or as the Second Vatican Council put it: «The Church believes that the key, the centre and the purpose of the whole of human history is to be found in its Lord and Master... who is the same yesterday, and today, and forever.»

The purpose of the consultation was to share the experiences gained by the CNI through the above process, with other churches in India and also to learn from the churches in India their mission experiences.

I called myself a «contemporary Baptist,» in the vein of megachurch pastor Rick Warren's «purpose - driven church.»

The purpose of my project was to unpack and explore the phrase «biblical womanhood» — mostly because, as a woman, the Bible's instructions and stories regarding womanhood have always intrigued me, but also because the phrase «biblical womanhood» is often invoked in the conservative evangelical culture to explain why women should be discouraged from working outside the home and forbidden from assuming leadership positions in the church.

When I was 15, I «gave my life to Christ» — not in a church, but alone, in my room, after months of reading and thinking and looking for purpose and meaning and direction and something bigger than the depressing and lonely life I seemed to be stuck with — and I expected to find those things.

In the early 1520s, Luther's preaching against the power of the Roman Catholic Church served as a rallying cry, helping give these peasant revolts a higher sense of purpose, and providing them with a language of spiritual and political critique.

Familiaris Consortio presents a wholly compassionate yet objectively truthful account of the Magisterium of the Church's teachings on marriage and the family and in its introductory paragraph states: «In a particular way the Church addresses the young, who are beginning their journey towards marriage and family life, for the purpose of presenting them with new horizons, helping them to discover the beauty and grandeur of the vocation to love and the service of life.&raquin its introductory paragraph states: «In a particular way the Church addresses the young, who are beginning their journey towards marriage and family life, for the purpose of presenting them with new horizons, helping them to discover the beauty and grandeur of the vocation to love and the service of life.&raquIn a particular way the Church addresses the young, who are beginning their journey towards marriage and family life, for the purpose of presenting them with new horizons, helping them to discover the beauty and grandeur of the vocation to love and the service of life.»

The purpose of the Faith Movement, in harmony with the Trust Deed of the Faith - Keyway Trust (registered charity # 278314 in English Law) made on July 13th 1979, is to advance the Catholic Faith in the modern world, by working together to attract many to discipleship of Jesus Christ in a living, sacramental practice of their faith, and above all, through this same activity and as the means to achieve it, humbly to offer within the Church a new development of, and further insight into, the Catholic Faith which she herself teaches us through Scripture and Tradition.

To Paul, therefore, the church was the continuation of the assembly of Israel, in which the eternal purpose of God was being worked out and whose head was the Messiah.

Both sayings have a canonical function in the church, shaping part of our identity and purpose, and we won't throw out either one, even if scholarship moves us to think Jesus more likely said the one and not the other.

Yet the early Church itself, when it departed from biblical idiom at the Council of Nicea and used for theological purposes a non-biblical word, homo - ousion, as the guarantor of true biblical meaning, gave Christians in later days a charter for translation — provided always that it is the gospel, its setting and its significance, that we are translating, and not some bright and novel ideas of our own.

In the case of a church, that would mean that they are using their property exclusively, 100 %, for non-profit purposes.

This is a striking picture of God's design for the local church - His own spiritual house in which disciples are born and raised and trained to fight against the enemy for His purpose in the earth.

Even where the church played a major role in education, the purpose was increasingly described in terms of service of the national society.

For Catholic schools to be a worthwhile enterprise for the Church, they must survive and flourish as institutions where pupils grow in a «personal relationship with Jesus» which includes following the teaching of Jesus, through His Church, that we should attend Mass every Sunday, go to confession regularly, say our prayers and be loyal to the magisterium - especially in its moral teaching regarding the sanctity of human life, and the meaning and purpose of sex and marriage, in accord with Humanae Vitae and Evangelium Vitae.

In other words, if the church has lost its purpose, the best thing may be for it to give up its facility and let somebody with a purpose use the space for the glory of God in a new congregatioIn other words, if the church has lost its purpose, the best thing may be for it to give up its facility and let somebody with a purpose use the space for the glory of God in a new congregatioin a new congregation.

Eventually the Church moved to the forefront of abolition because we understood this truth: Just because the Bible contained instructions about how to treat slaves in a context and culture where it was acceptable to hold slaves does not mean slavery is a godly practice or part of God's intended purpose for creation.)

I will be talking about the mission and purpose of the church, and how we have the freedom in Christ to be and do almost anything.

The first point to acknowledge in considering this view is that the Church has always taught that it is incompatible with an authentic sense of moral responsibility deliberately to choose what is known to be morally wrong, however good and desirable one's further purpose might be.

[13] This said, in animals lower than humans it is morally permissible to thwart the purposes of bodily organs, so that the Church fully permits the sterilisation of animals (if it doesn't cause unreasonable cruelty to them or damage to the material environment).

In the experience of the early church the Temple turned out to have inhibited the missionary purpose of the people of God rather than facilitate it.

For our purposes, the most satisfactory definition would be: Christianity is the total life of the community of men and women who respond to what they know about God — along with their neighbors, who are caught up into the social movement or process we call «the church» (however this may be understood)-- in terms of the socially remembered event of Jesus Christ.

Repudiating the fear and dread inspired in men by Satan and his churches — an Angst deriving from an abject and selfish terror of death (38:38)-- Milton's purpose is to teach men to despise death and to move forward:

Away from the safety of The Church and her built - in programs and values, we're parenting and defining faith with more purpose.

I grew up in the church all my life but I was following God's path, I didn't want to let God take control of my life but then at one point of my life I was going through a lot, stuff that a teenager shouldn't be going through but then I told God that I want him in my life to take control and to write out my path not me and right when I said that I felt happiness, I felt love, I felt and I still feel (what God wants me to do) that I have a purpose in life.

It is an instrument for implementing the basic purpose of the church — increase of love of God and neighbor — by helping to release the ability to love in those in whom this ability has been blocked or crippled.

Mainline Protestant leaders appeared to take an important step toward joining this movement in November when Robert Edgar, general secretary of the Nation Council of Churches, signed a statement calling on churches to do a better job of articulating God's purposes for marriage, supporting married couples, and proclaiming the good news about marriage to the wider Churches, signed a statement calling on churches to do a better job of articulating God's purposes for marriage, supporting married couples, and proclaiming the good news about marriage to the wider churches to do a better job of articulating God's purposes for marriage, supporting married couples, and proclaiming the good news about marriage to the wider society.

In other words we could reduce our discussion about proselytism to those who have the right or not of approaching others with the purpose of winning them for their own church.

It is not the purpose of this presentation to look into the theme of proselytism throughout the history of the Christian Church, but at least we should bear in mind that «Proselytism became a major interchurch problem through Roman Catholic (RC) and Protestant missionary work in countries where other Christian churches were already present - for example, among the Orthodox in the Middle East, Ethiopia and India, and among RCs in Latin America.»

Theology in the «objective» sense is chronologically derivative from the activity of theological inquiry because it is the activity that produces objectively valid truth claims and the objective purposes of professional church leadership.

In it, I explore the idea that prayer meetings, as beneficial and important as they are, might actually hinder the church from fulling the Great Commission and accomplishing our task of advancing God's purposes on earth.

Whatever else it may involve, however, any separation from the real man who was crucified under Pontius Pilate, any dissolving of his historical person and gospel in theological abstraction, stultifies and nullifies the true purpose of the Christian church.

Each chapter discusses an aspect of the one theme that the central purpose of all education — whether in homes, schools, churches, business organizations, community agencies, or the mass media, and whatever the area of learning, whether science, art, health, or international relations — should be the transformation of persons from the life of self - centered desire to that of devoted service of the excellent, and at the same time the creation of a democratic commonwealth established in justice and fraternal regard rather than in expediency.

Synan goes so far as to suggest occasionally that the primary purpose of classical Pentecostal churches in the providence of God was to preserve and mediate the Pentecostal teachings to the rest of Christendom.

By refuses to evolve, the Catholic Church is as good as denying the possibility of continuing divine revelation which, when viewed in a certain light, is as good as saying God is dead to humanity for all intents and purposes.

And if for meaninglessness and despair one wants to offer a gospel of purpose and hope, one has to experience — in one's person, and in the corporate person of the church — the «sickness unto death.»

In the churches we have almost palpably shied away from any such venture; indeed, we have offered the church as sanctuary from the cold winds of late 20th Century despair and the loss of purpose that informs nearly every creative work of art and parades itself visibly in the arena of politicIn the churches we have almost palpably shied away from any such venture; indeed, we have offered the church as sanctuary from the cold winds of late 20th Century despair and the loss of purpose that informs nearly every creative work of art and parades itself visibly in the arena of politicin the arena of politics.