Sentences with phrase «story of the church»

I'd also love to hear stories of the church (defined as individuals and families) who have chosen to do this.

In studying those topics they learn about many a congregation's life, and they learn too that there are alternatives to the merely contemporary and local stories of a church.

We still hear the odd story of a church using physical methods to extract a confession.

We may therefore find ourselves tempted to neglect or even abandon the practice of testimony, absorbing all individual differences of vocation and experience into the one great story of the Church — and to some degree that is just what recent narrative theology has done.

In the long story of the church there is much which seems to belie the claim that love is central to the Christian faith.

One success story of church planting is in Bihar, known as «the land of Buddha» because it is where Siddhārtha Gautama attained enlightenment and gave many of his sermons.

Then he turns to the long story of the church and the history of Christian thought.

The disagreements are not the whole story of the Church or the world: we have so much more to love and to celebrate.

Author: Various Artists1: Stories of church for a changing culture All around the UK Christians are experimenting with new expressions of church.

All these are necessary and worth doing, but we also need the collaboration and help of artists, musicians, cinematographers, and poets, partly to show the beauty of conjugal marriage, but also, and perhaps more so, to tell the bigger story of the Church's mission for dignity.

I'd absolutely love to hear stories of churches (defined as institution) who have decided to live simply and share their wealth with the poor.

So we worked for months on a cover story looking at the conflict in the Holy Land — why it's happening, peacemaking efforts, the (forgotten) story of the Church there and the eye - opening narratives our generation has to grapple with.

Peter Chin shares his family's story of church planting, cancer and trusting God when you have no idea what He is up to.

But the story of the Church's rebirth is more complicated than Western analyses suggest.

Reminds me of Steve Brown's «Now you think about that» series, the story of the church that put lemon juice in the communion cups because it made them look holy.

The story of Israel the story of Jesus and the story of the church become Erik's story.

Wright's brief overview of Christian history as it relates to scripture is a good reminder that the story of the Church is always unfolding, always evolving, always adjusting to (and contributing to) culture.

It is difficult to believe it is coincidental that the form of the narrative corresponds to the form of the story of the church: Jesus comes with blessing and instruction, Jesus departs, Jesus will return with vindication for his church.

[GET THIS CARTOON] The story of the church giving a standing ovation because their pastor who sexually assaulted an underage girl asked forgiveness is just appalling.

From the decision at the Jerusalem Council to free new converts from Jewish Law, to the debates of the third of fourth century that led to the biblical cannon the Apostle's Creed, to the Protestant Reformation which resulted in increased availability of Scripture, to the Galilean controversy which opened and changed minds, the story of the Church is a story of constant adaptation and change.

«The story of the church in China has been an incredible one, growing from one million believers to an estimated 100 million believers today.

There is much to celebrate in the story of the church and child care.

A conspiracy of silence has obscured what happened to the movement that Jesus launched in Galilee, ever since Luke's Acts told the story of the church's beginning with only one passing allusion to there even being a church in Galilee (Acts 9:31).

It is the story of Jesus, who acts and suffers as «Messiah», as representative of the people of God, and so, secondarily and derivatively, it is the story of the Church as the people of God «in Christ».

I love the story of the churches in Macedonia, Paul refers to Macedonian Christians, or the province, 16 times in six of his letters.

I would also offer the book as a resource to those undergoing instruction in the Catholic Faith, since it may be argued that one of the weaknesses of most RCIA programmes (let alone catechesis perse) is a failure to engage with the story of the Church.

A Dominican from Rhode Island who has written and lectured extensively, Fr Vidmar has used as his modus operand] the six «ages» into which the historian Christopher Dawson famously divided the story of the Church.

The end of the story of the church is its incorporation into «the kingdom of God in all the world.

God is not God apart from the story of Israel, the story of Jesus and the story of the church.

Since a history of Faith Church had just been finished a few months before he arrived, Landry invited the committee to begin its work with a study of this history; the story of the church's founding, its significant experiences in the past, critical turning points, its line of important personages.

Noll, both scholarly and readable, isolates important episodes in the story of the Church in a highly approachable manner.

In documenting the experiences of others, Olofinjana tells the story of a church in Northern Ireland which, as part of their mission, had begun to offer language classes to immigrants on their doorstep.

Thus he can say that the «professionalization» that reduces theology to a specialized undertaking endemic to the seminary — in general to the academic world — contributes to the story of the church's abandonment of its theological vocation.

Plus I might publish my story of a church split one day and they're a great read!

I thought about how the story of a church in need was followed by a story of another church's windfall — kind of transparent by CNN, but none the less — I'm going to drop a quick email to Phyllis Brill, the sisters» communications director and make a suggestion.

But you can just read the news to see that the stories of church and spiritual abuse are refreshed daily.

Moreover, the myth should illuminate the four basic elements of congregational character that have been mentioned before and utilized in each of the stories of churches presented in these latter chapters.

The story of the church giving a standing ovation because their pastor who sexually assaulted an underage girl asked forgiveness is just appalling.

The story of our faith — whether it comes directly from the Bible or from the story of the Church that followed — keeps our focus on God and shapes our identity by reminding us of who we are and who we are called to be.

It was the story of the church's expansion to the west which had been told by Luke and taken up by the western historians.

And the story of our churches, when it's all played out, is going to be bigger and more beautiful than any of us can imagine.»

It also reflect on the parable of the «Good Samaritan», and asks pupils to reflect on the meaning and relevancy in relation to the story of the church and their own lives.

With his National Book Award - winning YA novel, Godless, Pete Hautman explored themes of religion and spirituality through the story of a church that worshipped a water tower — the perfect blend of weighty, provovative themes and a humorous premise.

His contribution to the Sobey exhibition is Sun Ship Machine Gun (Metallurgy I), using film, installation and performance to tell the story of church bells melted for arms during the Second World War and then transformed post-war into saxophones.