Not exact matches
As Gary Thomas
shares in his pivotal book Sacred Marriage, relationships are about your
holiness, not your happiness.
The suffering of our sisters and brothers presses us first of all not into further faith explorations, but into mission —
sharing in God's struggle for
holiness and justice throughout the world.
And
Holiness and Pentecostal churches
share much
in ethos, hymnody and social / cultural experience.
Mainstream churches and educational institutions have had
in the past a disproportionate
share of leaders who were reared
in Holiness and Pentecostal contexts but whose theological development led them into other ecclesiastical fields of service.
Well understood this sacrament is an exceptional means for believers to advance
in holiness and to help build the human community
in love and
sharing.
I lean towards the third view... but I admit it is the most difficult of the three views... Christ's priorities appear to be «love
in motion» flowing
in almost unpredictable directions as dictated by the greatest need: — He heals a slave rather than rebukes slavery; — He heals a man at a pool, then leads the man to belief, then says «cease from sinning»; — He heals many others and says «go and sin no more» to but a few; — He
shares money with the poor but establishes no long - term aid; — He touches lepers; He converses with seeking Pharisees; He debates with other Pharisees; He lives with Samaritan outcasts for two days; — He acknowledges the five «marriages» of the Samaritan woman as «marriages»... and then remarks about her current co-habitation... but then moves to higher priorities; — He seems so very focused on internal
holiness and not on external
holiness; — He violates the Sabbath; He says He is Lord of the Sabbath; He even says that the Sabbath was created to assist man, rather than man created to serve the Sabbath... thus turning the entire concept of the Law into one of assistance rather than being chained to obedience; — He insists on impartiality
in the way we bless others, even if we call them «evil» or «good».
In the nutshell, the Mind and Life Meeting (Annual meeting of His
Holiness with the Scientists) is intended to garner and
share knowledge on similar grounds between Buddhist Science and Western Science.
We
share this
holiness in the breaking of the bread.