Sentences with phrase «such as baptism»

You can also make life easier by hashing out some big decisions now, like what to name your baby, whether to circumcise, how you'll feed your baby, and whether to have a religious ceremony (such as a baptism or baby naming).

If you know the baby's gender, you can choose gender - appropriate additions such as baseballs or ballerina slippers; if the blanket is meant for a religious ceremony, such as a baptism, you can choose a cross or a dove.

It's the same thing, we believe that you must «make covenants» such as baptism and abstaining from certain things as Jesus taught.

The chapters are loosely connected around some major theme, such as baptism, love, ethics, the Kingdom of Heaven, and the Son of Man.

Actually, Mormon doctrine says the original church and its practices such as baptism by immersion (as Christ did) was lost during the dark ages which made a «restoration» necessary.

As attendees, they are provided, through weekly teachings, biblical context for everything we do and practice, such as baptism, giving, serving and inviting friends to church»...

The Jewish people don't have a monopoly on God, and this is clear when you look at something such as baptism.

This church included limited temple rituals such as baptism for the dead, sealings, and endowments.

For most churches, it has almost doubled the festivals by adding occasions such as Baptism of the Lord, Transfiguration and All Saints» Day.

It is absolutely fair for Wheaton to assess the theological implications of her statement, not only to assess their truth, but also to decide whether such an statement is an open handed or close handed issue for the college (such as baptism, etc.).

Geoffrey Wainwright allows for alternatives, but insists that churches use «Father, Son, and Holy Spirit» at key points of Christian worship such as baptisms, eucharistic prayers, creeds and ordinations.

These additional funds were «offerings» for which the people received additional services, such as baptisms, marriages, funerals, a personal Mass from the Priest, extra prayers said by a Monk, or even the forgiveness of sins.

Not exact matches

The changes also include giving clergy to option not to wear traditional vestments while performing official church ceremonies such as Holy Communion or weddings, baptisms and funerals.

Yet some of the most substantive theology being written by Baptist scholars today comes from a little - known circle of mostly younger moderates who have shown a surprising interest in quite traditional themes such as the deeper meaning of baptism and the Lord's Supper, the covenantal disciplines of congregational life, and the positive role of creeds and confessions in the life of the church.

Another, whom we calculate as present in the second sense, may so calculate such presence that Jesus» baptism is for him now present in the same sense.

Downplaying water baptism as something that is optional (read: merely a personal decision rather than a command but not a requirement of salvation) is to make our persecuted siblings seem foolish for making such a decision unnecessarily.

Jensen links this rejuvenation of Lazarus to other images, such as the depiction of Jesus as a child in the baptism by John in the Jordan, or Adam and Eve portrayed as infants at the moment of creation.

I'm a bit reluctant to bring up the subject of baptism here on the blog because I think it's such a shame that something as beautiful and important can so quickly divide Christians along denominational lines.

Yet, he deals with the biblical themes such as God, Christ, Cross, Baptism and symbols and images in the Bible.

They refused to accept plural marriage, the idea of the political kingdom, and temple worship, as well as the more esoteric LDS doctrines such as plurality of gods and baptism of the dead.

If the Church in Corinth had been taught by the Apostle Paul that the manner in which one is saved is to pray (verbally or nonverbally) a sincere, penitent, prayer / petition to God, such as a version of the Sinner's Prayer, why does this passage of God's Holy Word discuss baptisms for the dead and not «prayers for the dead», specifically, praying a version of the Sinner's Prayer for the dead?

Christians get up in arms whenever anybody messes with the «rites» of baptism and the Lord's Supper, and we get up in arms whenever anybody messes with our legal «rights,» such as the right to free speech, the right to practice our religion, or the right to bear arms.

Such a spirituality neglected baptism as incorporation in the death - resurrection of Jesus and conversion of one's life to the values of the gospel and hence to respect for the rights of those.

For example, Puritan clergy had to respond to a series of specific demands or controversies, such as nonconformity in wearing the surplice and using the cross in baptism.

Along with attending to the Word, Christians have felt God's redemptive love quite palpably in such sacraments as baptism, Eucharist, and marriage.

My restiveness was increased by memorizing Luther's Small Catechism for confirmation, and by, arguments in boarding school with, for example, Southern Baptist classmates about such matters as infant baptism.

Where will persons go who — such as infants — have not committed actual sin and who, through no fault of theirs, die without baptism?

A. Persons, such as infants, who have not committed actual sin and who, through no fault of theirs, die without baptism, can not enter heaven; but it is the common belief they will go to some place similar to Limbo, where they will be free from suffering, though deprived of the happiness of heaven.

It offered peculiarly attractive inducements to baptism, such as outright presents, temporary exemption from taxation, and freedom for the serfs and those who tilled the soil.

The Pope said «It is my hope that your conversations will bear abundant fruit in the examination of such historically controversial issues as the relationship between Scripture and Tradition, the understanding of baptism and the sacraments, the place of Mary in the communion of the Church, and the nature of oversight and primacy in the Church's ministerial structure.

In recent years the Western churches have been greatly influenced by the Orthodox and Oriental churches; they have felt the appeal of many Eastern rituals: the strong emphasis on the paschal mystery; the attention to the role of the Holy Spirit in the eucharistic rite; the value of commemorating such events as the baptism of the Lord; and the unity of Christian initiation.

Would you still require water baptism as a symbol of burial in these other cultures where such a practice is completely foreign and meaningless?

28: l9).14 Various themes were linked with baptism, such as the washing away of sins, dying with Christ, rebirth or the gift of the Spirit.

Deliteralizing does not mean debunking, but means moving beyond literalism to find a deeper level of meaning in the traditional symbols such as the Lord's supper, baptism, the cross, the Christmas story, and so forth.

In describing such worship as «public,» we do not mean, of course, that it was opened to all and sundry, but rather that it was public for the Church and for all members of the Church who by their baptism had been initiated into the community and thus had been given the status which made it possible for them to participate in what went on when the community engaged in its regular worship of God in Christ.

Genesis and Exodus, for example, are clearly based on earlier Babylonian myths such as The Epic of Gilgamesh, and the Jesus story itself is straight from the stories about Apollonius of Tyana, Horus and Dionysus (including the virgin birth, the three wise men, the star in the East, birth at the Winter solstice, a baptism by another prophet, turning water into wine, crucifixion and rising from the dead).

On other teachings, such as the church's views of baptism and communion, agreement was equally low.

True Christian churches such as Catholic & others DO NOT recognize LDS baptism: http://www.catholicdoors.com/faq/qu46.htm Enough said...

Genesis and Exodus, for example, are clearly based on earlier Babylonian myths such as The Epic of Gilgamesh, and the Jesus story itself is straight from the stories about Apollonius of Tyana, Ho.rus and Dionysus (including virgin birth, the three wise men, the star in the East, birth at the Winter solstice, a baptism by another prophet, turning water into wine, crucifixion and rising from the dead).

The reality of the washing away of sins in baptism has been taught since the earliest days, but the teaching about forgiveness has developed: «The power of baptism to remit sins was so great that rigorists held that sins committed after baptism were possibly unforgiveable, and this motivated some people — Constantine but also future saints such as Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, Ambrose, Augustine and Chrysostum — to delay receiving it.»

The material of worship, such as hymns, creeds, benedictions, baptism, Lord's Supper, and catechetical material, became part of the Scripture.

However, amounts received directly from members of the congregation, such as fees for performing marriages, baptisms, or other personal services, are considered self - employment income.»

Augustine's formulation of original sin was popular among Reformers, such as Martin Luther and John Calvin who equated original sin with concupiscence, affirming that it persisted even after baptism and completely destroyed freedom.

It must be recognized, indeed, that there are comparatively few narratives which correspond in any way to events in the ministry of Jesus, and that where such correspondence is to be found, as for example in the baptism or crucifixion narratives, the gospel account has been so influenced by the theological conceptions and understanding of the Church that we can derive little, if any, historical knowledge of that event from those narratives.

Genesis and Exodus, for example, are clearly based on earlier Babylonian myths such as The Epic of Gilgamesh, and the Jesus story itself is straight from the stories about Apollonius of Tyana, Horus and Dionysus (including virgin birth, the three wise men, the star in the East, birth at the Winter solstice, a baptism by another prophet, turning water into wine, crucifixion and rising from the dead).

The Pentecostal churches and the charismatic movement emphasize both baptism in the Spirit and the Spirit's continuing post-conversion work, which may be seen in external signs such as speaking with tongues, healing and exorcism, which is the casting out of evil spirits.

Because of this, our movements have held many common characteristics such as — believer's baptism, the priesthood of all believers / the church, nonviolence, interpret Paul through Jesus rather than Jesus through Paul, non-hierarchal leadership, and the kingdom of God as a counterculture — but we've never had any authoritative creeds to unite us.

Satisfying pastoral functions such as weddings and baptisms should also be shared among the ministerial staff, as should the frustrating chores which must be done in any church.

Muentzer argued on the basis of Biblical foundation that man's relationship with God begins not with the an external act, such as the rite of baptism but with the internal experience of the Holy Spirit.

His contemporaries such as Ambrose still held to one faith, one baptism, and one (public) penance.