Sentences with phrase «reconciling mission in the world»

Many contemporary Christians think more in terms of God - world - church: the church participates in God's reconciling mission in the world and thereby discovers something of its own unity.

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I personally believe that the mission of reconciliation is not just between sin and redemption in this modern age — I think that some of us also have a mission of helping to reconcile the world we are discovering with the world painted for us in the Bible, and evolution is a huge part of that.

For this radical Jew that could only mean being implicated in the dawning of the great day, and in the mission of the Messiah to reconcile the world with God.

If the mission of God in the world is reconciling all things (Colossians 1), then what does it look like for us to bear witness to God's work?

Namely, God's mission works primarily through Jesus Christ's sending the people of God to intentionally cross barriers from church to nonchurch, faith to nonfaith, to proclaim by word and deed the coming of the kingdom of God in Jesus Christ through the Church's participation in God's mission of reconciling people to God, to themselves, to one another, and to the world and gathering them into the church, through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ, by the work of the Holy Spirit, with a view to the transformation of the world, as a sign of the coming of the kingdom in Jesus Christ.

We believe that in our Baptism, we are co-missioned to participate in God's mission of restoring and reconciling the world.