Sentences with phrase «sacrificial life of»

Monasticism undoubtedly offers a way for some, but it is not the only way to the sacrificial life of love.

Jesus, as the ultimate peacemaker, shows us that the life and work of peacemaking isn't some fairy tale euphoria, but the gritty, subversive and sacrificial life of faithfulness to a God and kingdom that lives by a different standard than the systems and powers of the world.

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Hello, Muneef, I hope and pray that you are doing fine, and that you are safe... I don't actualy know where you are, but I gather you live somewhere where there are many unrests... Today is the special day for all people who have put their faith in Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, who came to live among us, and who became a sacrificial Lamb, offeirng Himself to God for the sins of all mankind.

Jesus understood that the Messianic King of Psalm 2 was also the Suffering Servant of Isaiah 53 — a sacrificial lamb who would be rejected and cut off from the land of the living.

We pledge to stand with you, our Christian brothers and sisters of the historic Black church, and to work arm in arm with you in Christ - like self - sacrificial love to build in America a true culture of life and of family life.

We live in a world that despises the sacrificial side of marriage and tries to wish it away.

Instead, God is to be found in the self - sacrificial death of a lamb, who pours out His blood for others, so that death and destruction, when it comes, passes over the house and can not touch those who live within.

As St Paul says in Ephesians 5, the more that the husband in his relationship with his wife reflects the sacrificial love of Christ for His bride the Church, and the more that the wife in her relationship with her husband reflects the self - giving love of the Church for her Bridegroom, the more they will be truly fulfilled and the more they will live up to what they are called to be.

Behind this sanctity of blood in sacrificial ceremonies stood a profoundly influential idea concerning the nature of life: «The blood is the life»; (Deuteronomy 12:23.)

Life of eternal dimensions is the here - and - now gift to those who believe that this self - sacrificial One is the Son of God.

In pouring himself out in the form of a servant, and in living his humanity as an offering up of everything to God in love, the shape of the eternal Son's life was already sacrificial in this special sense; and it was this absolute giving, as God and man, that was made complete on Golgotha.

Here, for example, is what she said in her 1999 Christmas address: «I hope that, like me, you will be comforted by the example of Jesus of Nazareth who, often in circumstances of great adversity, managed to live an outgoing, unselfish and sacrificial life.

This does that mean you ignore all the OT moral codes (with the exception of sacrificial system) it means you are living it out.

So now, the author of Hebrews says, if these Hebrew Christians return to the sacrificial system, then there is not sacrifice there which can offer forgiveness of sins or eternal life.

By stating that no sacrifice for sin is left in Hebrews 10:26, the author of Hebrews is making a very similar point to that made in Hebrews 6, namely, that the Hebrew Christians came to recognize that the Levitical sacrificial system did not grant them eternal life or forgiveness of sins.

Instead, Jesus came to inaugurate a new bloodline of relatives, a family connected by the means of His sacrificial death and life - restoring resurrection on our behalf.

Often, Rupp notes, we do not see the converting power of the sustained and sacrificial undertaking of pilgrimage until well afterward: «Only then do we recognize how a new attitude, a stronger dedication, and a fuller passion stretched us into the fullness of life.»

The one thing I do know is that when I have been intentional about living a self - sacrificial life like Christ, and explaining that to those around me, they tend to see the beauty of it and follow!

And when you live this way, you will break free from the sin of violent, bloody, sacrificial scapegoating that has plagued humanity since the very beginning.»

«The reason why disciples must follow in the way of sacrificial living is that there is a coming judgement» (Hill, p. 265).

In this work Niebuhr maintained that the agape of the Cross in its sacrificial heedlessness and universalism is the only final adequate norm of human life.

Secondly, as an action the Eucharist is sacrificial in quality, since it has to do with an oblation, offering, or self - giving which was the characteristic mark of the life of Jesus in obedience to what he took to be the vocation given him by his heavenly Father.

This is because her life radiates beauty: through her hospitality to friends and strangers alike, through her joyful laugh, through her care of those in need, through her passion for education, through her love of framing things on film through the lens of a camera, through her ability to be patient with her doofus husband, through her genuine love for God, through her sacrificial generosity to those with less than we have, and even through her stubborn refusal to let me get away with any of my trademark snark.

Only «over the long term,» Matthew Levering answers, and even then only with «bold Christian witness in leading sacrificial lives, lives of ecstatic love.»

The meaning and truth of God's self - revelation in Christ is known through identification with the incarnation, both in sacrificial living and in significant dying.

The religious understanding of the conflict between good and evil, the fact of the stubborn resistance of the human heart to the love of God and its demands, the vision of the divine strategy of sacrificial love in the life and death of Jesus as the climax of history, all this is foreign to most of the philosophies of progress, but it was the heart of the great expressions of Christian liberalism.

The unmeasured love of Christ the Truth (sacrificial, heedless, uncalculating) sets the norm for man's life.

As Dean Willard Sperry has said, «Christianity, thus interpreted, becomes not an added entity outside the major tasks of daily life,... but the sum of all particulars of unselfish and sacrificial service in the day's work, and an experience of actual community of sustaining spirit.

But the problem of sacrificial love is a practical problem of the Christian life.

He believes that the self - sacrificial image of Jesus Christ is a vivid emblem of a humane orientation in life, and he claims that the chief responsibility of theology is to deal seriously and critically with the question of God.

They are continually beset by temptations which assailed the Messiah - to live by material things rather than by the Word of God, to seek the cheap success of the market place rather than the «well - done» of the heavenly king, to establish an empire by force and fear rather than to win the nations by sacrificial love.

That is why the moral essence of the US that men have inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is diametrically opposite of the selfless, self - sacrificial Christian morality.

So, while we can affirm the right to life as a noble political value, as Kingdom people we have to revolt against the temptation to this noble value above the value of self - sacrificial love in order to manifest the beauty of the Jesus - looking Kingdom (The Myth of a Christian Religion, 84 - 85).

Ross can not imagine what could be more egalitarian than «that sacrificial act of Jesus in giving his life for the salvation of humankind.

It includes both consciousness, or the embracing of suffering and the identifying with the needy of the world, and sacrificial love: the capacity to live with others in relationships of healing, sustaining, guidance and reconciliation, expressed in caring for the sick, the needy.

It is only a lack of imagination on the part of some students which has prevented them from seeing the grand sweep of the sacrificial idea and has therefore led them to a rejection of it as central to the religious life of man.

Historian David Bebbington suggests a respected paradigm for those who identify as an evangelical: a transformed life through following Jesus, faith demonstrated through missionary and social reform efforts, a regard for the Bible as ultimate authority, and a central focus on the sacrificial death of Jesus.

Their confidence in his continued life turned their dismay at Calvary into triumph, and without it some of the most characteristic elements in the New Testament — the radiant hope and joy of the whole Book, the Christ - mysticism of Paul, the shining reality of the eternal world in the Epistle to the Hebrews, and the enthusiastic acceptance of sacrificial hardship exhibited by the early church — are inexplicable.

We learned that in all likelihood Jesus did not speak as he does in John's Gospel; that even the synoptic Gospels are a complex mixture of historical memory and post-Easter interpretation; that the image of Jesus as one who deliberately gave his life for the sins of the world is the product of the church's sacrificial theology; and that Jesus probably did not proclaim his own exalted identity, or even think of himself in such terms.

One need not deny the value of martyrdom in certain instances, or the selflessness of sacrificial death that is sometimes involved in trying to live a life of love, or even at times of pacifism (as a strategy, without believing in it as an absolute principle).

The meaning of life, the justification of sacrificial love, the redemption of tragedy, the meaningfulness of history, and the resolution of whatever paradoxes there be, are «now.»

The revelation of God in Jesus Christ indicates that the path of sacrificial love is the «law of life.»

In attempting to live the life of sacrificial love, we can not set limits to the degree of the brokenness of the old self that may be required of us.

Now that we have this redemptive revelation through the sacrificial death of Jesus, we are able to live in a new way with other human beings.

The disclosure of God in Jesus Christ revealed most fully that the qualities of mercy and sacrificial love are necessary if the living of life is to have its justification.

It means perhaps we would spend years of our lives giving to the world in sacrificial and beneficial ways before settling down with our sweetheart to raise children rather than diving into marriage for the wrong reasons.

He who loves his dream of a community more than the Christian community itself becomes a destroyer of the latter, even though his personal intentions may be ever so honest and earnest and sacrificial [Life Together (Harper, 1954), pp. 26 - 27].

The Gospel writers record that Jesus called his followers to a way of life in which violence and division are overcome by sacrificial love.

The sharing of new bonds of koinonia, love, justice, peace, hope and life has been communicated through the crucifixion of Jesus as the Sacrificial Lamb of the New Covenant.

This throws a light on the inner existence of Socrates; one side of the master's life is profoundly characterized: the resignation in the highest sense, the sacrificial thought.