Sentences with phrase «redemptive purposes in»

God calls forth a «countercultural community of discipleship» which is «called to embody an alternative order that stands as a sign of God's redemptive purposes in the world.»

It is in this context, a context decisively shaped by God's redemptive purposes in Christ, that we can join with St. Francis of Assisi in hymns of familial and filial piety toward nature.

Most of us have experienced some hurt or doubt of our own, and these scars, too, can serve a redemptive purpose in shaping our listening response to leavers.

Pre-millennialism holds that the Second Coming of Christ will be followed by Christ's thousand - year reign on earth before the fulfillment of God's redemptive purpose in the new heaven and new earth.

This action pluralized while simultaneously relativizing the notion of plausibility structures vis - à - vis the single theme of God's redemptive purpose in history.

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God wants humanity to understand that nothing and nobody is beyond the scope of His redemptive purposes, and so by sending Jesus as the fulfillment of the most violent of religious texts, God not only revealed Himself by way of a stark contrast to that violence, but also showed how to reinterpret and understand those violent events in light of the self - sacrificial God dying on the cross for the sins of the whole world.

The main difficulty with this view, however, is that it seems that the way of Jesus in setting up a spiritual Kingdom is «Plan B» in God's redemptive purposes.

I see the Old Testament in its totality laying a permanent foundation for faith by its disclosure of God's moral character, sovereign rule, redemptive purpose, and covenant faithfulness and by its exhibiting of the positive dispositions of faith, praise, and obedience contrasted with the negative dispositions of mistrust and rebellion.

In Taxi Driver, the camera even hangs on the awkward reactions of those around Travis Bickle as scene after scene of personal embarrassment leads to him to seek validation and purpose through redemptive violence.

Because I believe in the redemptive movement of God, moving the story of humanity further into God's purposes and heart for us, one story at a time.

George Eldon Ladd of Fuller Seminary, an exponent of this view, writes,»... the New Testament for the most part does not foresee a millennial kingdom»; and again, «The New Testament nowhere expounds the theology of the millennium, that is, its purpose in God's redemptive plan» (in The Meaning of the Millennium, op.

The significance of the kerygma, which proclaims the redemptive work of God in Christ, lies in its opening up in a universally relevant fashion the manner of God's dealing with the whole created order in carrying out his saving purpose.

That the community of men and women who share this faith and attempt to live this life Constitutes the unique medium in each age for the continued disclosure of God's creative and redemptive purposes.

So, deep in the sixth century, on the very eve of the second exodus, the voice of prophetism, summoning into a single moment of time the act of creation and the first exodus, proclaims the now old prophetic faith in the redemptive purpose of Yahweh's judgment:

The lines can not be sharply drawn, however: one could not believe that God had accomplished so much in and through Jesus and had exalted him to so supreme a status without soon asking, «What then was the essential nature of this Jesus that he can have become the agent of God's redemptive purpose?»

Divine judgment, historical judgment, consistent, on the one hand, in its punitive quality with the concept of God - as - Creator - Judge but, on the other hand, transcended in the main by the concept of God - as - Redeemer into judgment not merely punitive but ultimately itself redemptive in character and purpose.

The man Amos, the prophet Amos, could not have spoken with such passion on behalf of Yahweh except in the faith that the very historical judgment which he proclaimed was itself ultimately positive and redemptive in divine purpose.

And do observe in Ezekiel that (1) Yahweh's ways, if sometimes unfathomable, are deemed to be just and right; (2) history, even in its anguish, is interpreted in terms of Yahweh's concerned, purposeful impingement upon it; (3) Yahweh's ultimate purpose is confidently assumed to be redemptive — to recreate by resurrection a people who will be his people and (certainly implicitly) will yet fulfill themselves as his people; and (4) the bold faith that despite any appearances to the contrary, the Word of Yahweh is accomplishing itself and can not in any future be thwarted.

In the end, there's too much evidence that God loves us, with a passion that is totally unreasonable and completely redemptive, to ever stop trusting in God's purpose for the world, and for our liveIn the end, there's too much evidence that God loves us, with a passion that is totally unreasonable and completely redemptive, to ever stop trusting in God's purpose for the world, and for our livein God's purpose for the world, and for our lives.

Suffering has been viewed as having a redemptive purpose by many different cultures and many different religions, including Christianity, but also Buddhism, certainly, in all of its variations across Asia.

The purpose of Jesus in history, therefore, and his continued significance for us today, is his redemptive function.

Methods, programs, goals, and structures should be continually reevaluated in the light of the ultimate purpose of a church's organizational - administrative activities: The development of a redemptive fellowship in which the maximum number of persons can grow in their love of God and neighbor!

What we want is a group so devoted to this purpose and so tightly organized that it can work as effectively for redemptive ends in our time as the first Christians worked for redemptive ends in the first century of our era and as the Nazis have worked for divisive ends in the first century of their would - be era.

The artist is also driven to display how the tribally sanctified spaces in which those forms of worship and spirited performance takes place are Black pocket - universes of intense energy, eloquence and illumination — ones that exist in simultaneous alignment and detachment from the poetics of Black political and popular culture but are as well - organized as those realms around the acquisition and consumption of material wealth for culturally redemptive purposes.