Sentences with phrase «sacrificial spirit»

'' The President extols Pastor Adeboye for his humility, focus, discipline and sacrificial spirit of giving up his personal comfort, career and dreams, to take up the higher call of leading the Lord's flock.

I remember reading his letter from a Birmingham jail where if I remember correctly he talked of the church being under God's judgement and losing its relevance if it is does not recover the authenticity and the sacrificial spirit of the first century church.

If today's church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century.

Not exact matches

Yet so similar are the sources in the human spirit that through all ages, and not in Christianity alone, the worship of God has found natural expression in music and song, poetry and the graphic arts, the drama of sacrificial rites, and where not inhibited by convention, the dance.

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.

It allows us to envision a community of healing and hope, beauty and creation, love and peace, and then take self - sacrificial and Spirit - empowered steps toward accomplishing that vision.

Goodness means a spirit of sacrificial love that can see, appreciate, and elicit goodness in others.

Toward the end of Ut Unum Sint, John Paul cites some of the questions that must be addressed in conversation with the communities issuing from the tragic divisions of the sixteenth century: (1) The relationship between Sacred Scripture, as the highest authority in matters of faith, and Sacred Tradition, as indispensable to the interpretation of the Word of God; (2) The Eucharist as the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ, an offering of praise to the Father, the sacrificial memorial and Real Presence of Christ and the sanctifying outpouring of the Holy Spirit; (3) Ordination, as a Sacrament, to the threefold ministry of the episcopate, presbyterate, and diaconate; (4) The Magisterium of the Church, entrusted to the pope and the bishops in communion with him, understood as a responsibility and an authority exercised in the name of Christ for teaching and safeguarding the faith; (5) The Virgin Mary, as Mother of God and Icon of the Church, the spiritual Mother who intercedes for Christ's disciples and for all humanity.

More commonly we exhibit our «sacrificial» spirit as a means of coercing or deluding others to do our will.

The temple cultus, with its sacrifices and offerings and the arrangements for providing sacrificial victims, had become such an elaborate, noisy, and odorous affair that to the earnest young prophet from Galilee the spirit of true worship must have seemed to be lost.