Sentences with phrase «sharing live in this world»

WCC World Consultation on Koinonia: Sharing Life in a World Communitl.

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In my work at JPMorgan Chase and throughout my career, I have seen that around the world, we all share aspirations for a better life.
We teach people that we live in an abundant world where there really is enough for everyone if we focus on sharing
In a world where most of us share every detail of our lives online, job seekers expect the same from their employer.
Half of the world's population live in cities, and that share is growing rapidly.
The authors share budgets, recommendations, tips, advice, and hard - won strategies for success that can be applied by anyone to secure a happier, more affordable, more rewarding life in some of the most beautiful and relaxing locations around the world.
In a special live installation, Alex will share his creative process and his passion for one of the world's most versatile materials.
The share of the world's population living in cities is steadily increasing.
Conservation International and Starbucks have partnered to help improve the lives of at least 1 million people in coffee communities around the world through giving away hearty coffee trees and sharing resources through Starbucks Farmer Support Centers.
Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger A brotherhood of man Imagine all the people sharing all the world living life in peace nothing to kill or die for... You, you may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one I hope some day you'll join us And the world will be as one
Many years ago, I heard someone speaking about how Jesus» life and death absorbed the «shock» of sin and death within creation and how we as His body have been called to a similar mission — the verses which speak of us «carrying in our selves» the marks that we belong to Him, sharing in some small way in His sufferings as we share in His life — it's all part of a realm where the sweet savor of the fragrance of Him is allowed to be evidenced in this broken world.
Unfortunately we're living in a world that has come to value pat answers over the search and struggle to share together.
Our boundedness by Christ gives us the framework, center, vision and mission: We are the body of Christ, gathering around Jesus, dreaming His dream of the Kingdom of God and sharing His mission of living it (in unselfish service to our neighbour), preaching it and modeling it before a watching world.
«The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands «Acts 17:24 «Then I heard another voice from heaven say: ««Come out of her, my people,» so that you will not share in her sins, so that you will not receive any of her plagues;» Revelation 18:4
It calls the disciple to live, at least part of the time, as if he or she were already in the next world, a world where all share freely and constantly commune with God — in short, a life of love.
Authentic Christian spirituality is understood and lived where there is real sharing in the pain and agony of Christ for the world.
We can not remove sin from this world but we can be moved by the love God gave us, in his only begotten Son, to share this love, which is eternal, forgiving, and powerful, so powerful that it can not be removed by, even, the taking of life — for no sooner do you take the life of such young ones away that, in the next moment, they are with Christ.
Christian existence is the common mission to proclaim the Incarnate Son in the power of the Spirit who extend their shared life with the Father to a world mired in the disease of sin.
The mechanisms of this international capitalist recession, the latest of which, to date, some would like to see as the first crisis of world capitalism, are well known: contraction in production and trade; deflationary trends; massive growth in the volume of loans accumulated by international banks on countries or on the major industrial and banking groups, loans which become transformed into irrecoverable debts; brutal capital withdrawals from countries by the major financial operators, which live from the revenue from parasitical investments in bonds, shares and other derivatives.
But in some parts of the world the faith that you and I share is radical and criminal and could land you in jail or worse — cost you your life.
In the outside world, the unity of Quakers is cultural: a shared set of practices and a shared approach to life.
And rather than share how much you love Jesus by liking a page or joining a group, maybe it's time to learn how to love as He did and show compassion to the world around us in the realness of everyday life.
He said: «The world has never been in accord with the Gospel of Jesus Christ and we've always had the challenge that we need to live it and share it.»
Forgetting the idiosyncratic, unspeakably diverse crowds of strangers, we become drawn through television to the familiar faces, myths and visions of the American Way of Life, thereby putting ourselves in touch with a shared vision of the human order — a vision that engages our loyalties and makes sense of our world.
We no longer live in a world where we can just «love» people, build relationships, and earn the right to share our beliefs.
And he argued that capital punishment could be justified only where there was a socially shared religious belief that the final verdict on any person's life was not given in this world.
One is the world - wide revolutionary situation, in which subject peoples of Asia and Africa are rising to claim their independence and their right to a fair share in the opportunities of life, and in which nonwhite peoples are challenging the exclusive privilege and world dominance of the white man.
While the principalities and powers of the world, originally ordained to serve God and God's creation, deny the subjectivity of the life, the people and their communities, Christ raises them up to be the subjects of sharing, sustaining and fulfilling the life in the political economy of God.
And when Christ, who is your life, is revealed to the whole world, you will share in all his glory.
When this happens, the aggressively masculine stance and the dislike of women's having their part and place in the affairs of the world — and in religious communities, the refusal to give women a full share in the communities» life and in their ordained ministry — are taken to be supported by the cosmic order and hence given a divine force in human affairs.
To try and diminish this story because she is a woman of faith (and perhaps you do not share this gift) merely demonstrates the vacant soul that chooses to live in a two dimensional world.
We can not share in this mythological picture, continues Bultmann, because we live and think within «the world - picture formed by modern natural science» and within «the understanding man has of himself in accordance with which he understands himself to be a closed inner unity that does not stand open to the incursion of supernatural powers.
Neville i mentioned those people only because the discussion was talking about dominionism the combination of the church and state as a governing rule all those people were government leaders all of them suffered in there own way.Its was the suffering that prepared them for the roles that they were to play and there faith in God was what helped them get through.We are made stronger in our weakness no matter how important or unimportant we may appear to others.I guess it is easy to fall into the lie about political involvement that its hard to make change but some people have had a huge impact.Really it is God who deserves the praise he is the one that creats the opportunitys to make impact on the world as in our strength we can do nothing.In hebrews the great men and woman of faith there are those that seemed unimportant to the world and many suffered for there faith Our Lord knows everyone by name and every small act of faith we do he remembers because we do it out of our love for him that is what the christian walk is about living for Jesus and sharing that love with others.brentnz.
Neville i liked what you wrote some really good points and churchs today are still making a difference in society though society is becoming more secular.My thinking is as the world gets darker and as it moves away from christian principles the light of Christ in believers will grow proportionately brighter.We are here to make a difference we are in the the world but not of the world.In Christ we have been given life and light to share with those in darkness so that they might have there freedom.brentnz
Some say that ending tyranny means «imposing our values» on people who do not share them, or that people live in parts of the world where freedom can not take hold.
It follows that one dimension of the meaning of the Christian life is our share in world - building.
Turner shares a widespread skepticism about whether the evangelical thinkers will make much of an impact on the large and multifarious worlds of evangelicalism, but of this he is more certain: «That [they have] made, and will continue to make, a substantial mark on American academic life seems indisputable, especially in history, philosophy, and, more recently, sociology.
In the life of unilateral power the unfairness means that the stronger are able to control and dominate the weaker and thereby claim their disproportionate share of the world's goods and values.
So many folks in seminary are highly isolated from anyone outside the four walls of the church (and even the church itself) that they enter the world still having to learn that their role is to serve the people doing the hard work of sharing faith daily in life.
Man's biological life is embedded in nature, and in a more complex form he shares many attributes with the animal world.
Whilst we may indeed vary in our relationship to matters which are indifferent — what you eat and drink and what you shall wear (which, as Christ teaches Himself, are of no major concern in regards to God's Kingdom)-- we should all share a common bond in regards to the truth conveyed through the living word — that God was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself.
The problem of the compromise of the Christian with the necessities of secular life is solved in Catholicism by the establishment within the Church of religious orders in which, through renunciation of «the world,» the life of love can be realized and the moral merit thus achieved, shared with all the believers in the Church.
I think the scriptural reality of redemption needs to be affirmed far more clearly and passionately in our seeking to share life with each other and the world at large.
(Mark 10:23 - 27) Renunciation is the rule for all, (Mark 8:34 - 37; 10:21, 28:31) and the compensations are as simply and absolutely set forth as is the requirement: the good things of this life, such as they are, the blessings of family and of property, will be shared by all within the community, «now in this present time: houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life
The world tells us to go and experience all of the pleasures that can be found in our youth, but the book of Acts teaches us to go and consider our lives nothing to us, and only aim to finish the race and complete the task God has given us — to share His grace.
One who claims to follow Jesus and becomes baptized, yet lives in darkness according to the course of this world, is no better than Simon Magus (Acts 8:9 - 24), whose soul, according to Cyril of Jerusalem, «was not buried with Christ, nor did it share in his resurrection.»
33:4, 6, 9) Man shared in this creation, taking physical and intellectual possession of the world by his giving names to all living creatures (Gen. 2:19) Throughout the Old Testament, in ordinary and sublime statements, in magic or prophecy, Israel took as her starting point the conviction that a word possesses creative power.
Being united with Christ, in whom God has communicated himself to the world, we share in the very life of the Trinity, the life of a love relationship.
To take the first live a life full of risk and insecurity To take the first option is mediocrity enslavement to the whims of an inhuman option means following Christ in his tribulations, holding fast to his mission, resisting the forces of destruction, sharing in the building of a new world, in which all human beings will actually be free.»
Not Marxism qua Marxism but you have to understand that what Jesus taught us about living in this world shares a a lot with some of the ideals of communism.
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