Military folks have just as much right as anyone else to celebrate God and
share their faith with others.
Like Protestant evangelicals, he says, such Catholics are strong on authority, clarity of message and eagerness to
share the faith with others.
Evangelicals are also slightly more likely to report reading Scripture at least weekly (63 % in 2014 vs. 60 % in 2007), participating in a weekly prayer or Bible study group (44 % vs. 41 %), and
sharing their faith with others at least weekly (35 % vs. 34 %).
If you have the gift of evangelism, you love to
share your faith with other people, and you sometimes get frustrated that other's don't share your passion.
There is nothing inherently wrong with the collective belief in a deity or
a shared faith with others.
You're complaining about people
sharing their faith with others, being «pushy,» and in the same post putting in your little plug for whatever system you follow.
In more specific ways the spiritual influence of group involvement was also apparent: of the people currently involved, 90 percent claimed they were better able to forgive others, 79 percent said they had been enabled to
share their faith with others outside the group, 78 percent felt closer to God and 66 percent had experienced answers to prayer.
Our job is love people like Christ loves us and to
share our faith with others as they accept it, not throw the bible at them and tell them they are going to hell.
Christian women and men concerned about their capacity to communicate accurately are finding new opportunities to
share their faith with each other.
Before Peter was ready to
share his faith with others, God had to teach the self - righteous disciple that he must not call unclean or common what God counts clean (Acts 10:9 - 16).
He uses his climbs to help raise money for charities such as the AIDS Research Alliance and as an opportunity to
share his faith with others around the world.
Bringing video content from the brightest and most trusted authors to the world, Study Gateway is an easy, affordable way for individuals and church members to study, learn, and grow their own faith so they can
share that faith with others.
Not exact matches
Hopefully, we all can have the couage and
faith to continue
sharing with others.
We can hold deep and fundamental differences
with people of
other faiths, yet
share mutual concerns, work together and overcome common problems.
And of course the whole point is not to
share with others what isn't real or true for you, a point that is not lost on super pastor Rob as we return to the dilemma of living an honest
faith when you become the latest pastor in demand.
The desire to
share one's
faith with another is admirable, even if it contradicts the
faith of the
other.
I do not like preaching and I don't even have a church home but I do have a personal
faith that I seek to make stronger and
share with others.
Gary, I was not speaking of YOUR personal journey; but from the perspective of my own transitional experience and the experiences of
others who have informally
shared the stories of their pilgrimages of
faith with me — and they have been many.
Iraq and Iran had the highest
share of religious minorities resettled,
with about 95 percent of Iranian refugees being Christians or
other non-Muslim
faiths.
«This post is for all of you are are alive in ways you've never been before, learning and growing and making connections and seeing things you haven't seen before but when you've
shared this new
faith and understanding
with others you've been dismayed to discover that not everybody is so thrilled...»
On the
other hand, I want as well to
share faith and Christian hope
with these people, to avoid shutting off genuine interpersonal encounter and my own self - disclosure because of any false allegiance to psychotherapeutic norms — and I doubt that empathy alone constitutes such a
sharing.
During this Year of
Faith the texts of the Council and Catechism will be central to our efforts as Catholics to rediscover and
share with others the gift of
Faith entrusted to the Church.
Muslim, Christian, Jew, Buddhist, Atheist, etc.... however all are American first One is not comfortable
with the
other, however each lives
with the
other based on inter
faith and universal values All
share the same primary core belief... the belief in freedom of rights and religion This core belief is a reliigion in itself, which all worship before their «traditional religion» It is, as Daniel said... the «god of fortresses»
This question becomes urgent as cultural elites grow more hostile, and orthodox Christian beliefs (
shared by most
other traditional
faiths and by many
with no
faith) about sex and marriage are redefined as hatred and bigotry.
Even if the
faith I appropriate were somehow brand new, never before conceived, the product of no apparent community save my own internal dialogue
with myself, if I really believed it to be true I would perforce
share it
with others; and thus, whether I directly willed it or not, a new community would be created around it.
But we need to remember also that the
faith we personally appropriate is the
faith of the community, and this means that even the most internalized, existential act of personal commitment will bind us into a communal relationship of
shared belief
with others.
We Presbyterians, who
share so much — a confession of
faith, a rich theological heritage, the advantages and the burdens of wealth and social power — could covenant to stay together, to labor
with each
other, in love, for justice and truth.
@Run A Mok - Those «TOLERANCE» bumper stickers are a great idea, but I think that maybe they were designed to remind Christians that
other faiths share the world
with them.
Visit CatholicsComeHome.org and explore the wealth of resources we have there to help you
share your Catholic
faith with others in a charitable, inspiring way.
From this last experience emerged what was to be his life's work — a new form of evangelisation, living
with the shanty - dwellers, caring for disabled people abandoned by
others, teaching, and
sharing the
faith.
These snake handlers
share one thing in common
with other Christians:
Faith.
I'm convinced that the Teacher awaited by many
faiths is here to educate humanity on how to achieve peace, end starvation in the midst of plenty through nation
sharing with each
other, and to remind us of our true nature as spiritual beings all on a path together.
When applied to theology, the principle of positivity highlights those features of Christian
faith and existence which are determinate transformations of generic characteristics, rather than to those which are
shared with humanism or
other religions.
But I have to agree it is important to decide what
faith path you feel is more close to what you feel to be true... it is important to have a base to identify
with and to gather
with others to
share ideas.
Active and positive inclusivity in which we
share diverse thinking and experiences
with our neighbors of
other churches and
other faiths is necessary.
So
share with us the
other handles you have used to show your
faith in your God or are you going to lie about it to get out of it.
For three weeks, we led intense discipleship that included: morning devotionals led by the members (
with feedback from my wife and I afterwards), application challenges (
share your
faith with a coworker, serve the
other SIMs members, etc.), assignments, curfew, rotating chores, communal money pot (no purchases can be made without consulting everyone), evening devotionals based on our worldviews, and conflict resolution.
In discussions
with Greeks, Christian thinkers presented the new
faith not only by reference to the Scriptures but also by appeal to classical literature and general conceptions, «common ideas» that they
shared with other educated men and women.
The
Faith Alive group in Southampton has in the past decade initiated Alpha courses, an ecumenical programme
sharing ideas about leadership, formation and outreach methods
with other denominations, a city guildhall event
with a Catholic inspirational speaker and prayer teams, a city mission, an introductory programme for «new seekers», that is people interested in the Church and who might wish to continue
with the RCIA, displays outside a church on a main road and a manned gazebo to provide information and resources to passers - by during the papal visit, and the Anchor catecheticscourse making use of the «way of beauty» for evangelising parishioners, seen as a primary target.
What is needed is a two - sided thrust in evangelism, one side encouraging Christians to
share their story of
faith with neighbor and friend, and the
other side providing a program of inquiry as a formal way of dealing
with people genuinely interested in converting to Christ.
I could go on and elaborate on a number of
other disciplines or facts that creationists have to pretend into oblivion to retain their
faith, including the Ice Ages, cavemen and early hominids, much of microbiology, paleontology and archeology, continental drift and plate tectonics, even large parts of medical research (medical research on monkeys and mice only works because they
share a common ancestor
with us and therefore our fundamental cell biology and basic body architecture is identical to theirs).
She said: «The Christian leadership in Nepal are planning to analyse how this law will impact them, and are coming up
with a document to educate
other leaders in the country on how they can still continue to
share their
faith in a way that respects the government's laws.»
I believe that God whispers to me that the Day Nursery I run from my house
with my daughter is a church in His vision of Church — a place built on love, supporting staff children and families, yes a business, but one run for love, providing wages to live, to support charities too and to enable me to have a break every now and then — but God is not yet overtly mentioned
other than in 1:1 conversations where I
share my
faith (more than I ever did in Church).
And I believe we will if we become more familiar
with the excellent programs available and transform our parishes in dynamic communities where the parishioners know and serve each
other, and come to love
sharing their
faith and lives
with each
other and the wider community.
It is a bias that affirms that for those to whom the Christian
faith has meaning, the gospel brings peace and joy, and also the obligation to
share it
with others.
The Zacharias Trust offer a series of three training weekends throughout the year designed to equip Christians to
share their
faith intelligently and effectively
with people of
other faiths and none.
Secondly, Christians and Muslims need, together
with members of
other faiths, to reflect on the values that they
share and on the moral basis of a healthy society and a just and peaceful international order.
If Christianity is essentially a
faith to be
shared, and if the Christian churches takes seriously the possibilties of using what we know about the process of communication, then its task is to establish environments which allow people to communicate
with each
other,
with their own leaders, and
with the world.
It has strengthened my
faith and I plan on
sharing it
with others.
A duty, but also a privilege — and a privilege because it enables each to
share with all, to give to and receive from the fellowship, to make public profession of and witness to the
faith that is ours and to encourage
others to do so by
sharing in a common activity.