Sentences with phrase «taking baptism»

How am I to witness and minister to my family and community if I am cut off through taking baptism?

«But they don't take baptism because they will lose their jobs and families, because their benefits will be taken away by the government.

If we take our baptism seriously, we have become sisters and brothers of all those all over the world who have been baptized, largely due to our past missionary efforts.

But at his 46th year of age, as the result of the attempt of a presbyter, he took baptism and became a converted Christian.

Not exact matches

All other Church are corrupt and either lost the Priesthood authority thru corruption (think Catholic) or never had it, but took it upon themselves to administer the audiences of the Gospel as in baptism, marriages ect...

The article is saying the the Mormon church is enforcing its policy of not performing vicarious baptisms of holocaust victims and is apologizing and taking corrective action based on a single runaway member doing something that was clearly against the rules.

-- Since the LDS church is headquartered in the US, this would force the hierarchy to take a stand and stop this widespread practice, and stop the incorporation of proposed baptism names into the church files.

St. John then threw him to the ground, pulled up his habit, marked his stomach with three crosses, and told him to take courage and go ahead with the baptism.

Do you believe Baptism for th dead / baptism by proxy as prophesied by Joseph Smith for the purpose of allowing non-Mormons into heaven (and that it takes a «gentile» 3 years to get their named removed from the Mormon church roles after having being baptized into the LDS chuBaptism for th dead / baptism by proxy as prophesied by Joseph Smith for the purpose of allowing non-Mormons into heaven (and that it takes a «gentile» 3 years to get their named removed from the Mormon church roles after having being baptized into the LDS chubaptism by proxy as prophesied by Joseph Smith for the purpose of allowing non-Mormons into heaven (and that it takes a «gentile» 3 years to get their named removed from the Mormon church roles after having being baptized into the LDS church) 8.

It's for those who are interested in a totally different take on the baptism of the Spirit and spiritual gifts than the Pentecostal view and the cessationist view.

This includes: barring them from serving on leadership teams, refusing them believer's baptism, banning them from taking Communion, denying them involvement in children's or youth work and even asking them not to attend church services any more.

Here's the counter example: That young man was a known alcoholic, and comes to his baptism drunk, and right after he emerges from the waters takes a long swig from his 5th of Jack saying: «I'm a Christian and God's loves me just the way I am.»

Take water baptism for example.

When people want be baptized «in the right way,» they argue about when baptism should take place, how much water is necessary, where the baptism can occur, who can perform the baptism, what actions should be performed during the baptism, and what words need to be said along with the baptism.

While a baptismal service was in progress, he arose to dispute the practice of infant baptism as un-Biblical and proceeded to take each point from the pastor's sermon and to answer it with Baptist views.

Plans also call for an acre of green space, and an outdoor fountain where in warm weather baptisms will take place, underneath a towering cross.

My takes on the flood is a type and shadow of water baptism.

For example, he takes one on a tour of the baptistery in the early - third century house church of Dura Europos (Ferguson, Baptism 440 - 443).

John's baptism has been compared with similar Jewish rites, which included proselyte baptism, a symbolic bath taken by converts to Judaism.

Luther often spoke of baptism as a once - and - for - all event that takes your whole life to do.

Baptism, at whatever age it takes place, reminds us that we are always helpless, dependent, needy infants so far as our relationship to God is concerned.

The fact that she took the question of her baptism so seriously is a strong indication that she did not consider all religions on a par.

In polite company, and for the sake of keeping peace with each other (because mutual apostasies take so much effort), we can do with marriage what we do with our disagreements about eucharist and baptism: keep our mouths shut and let God sort it out in the end.

And I started taking April 29 much more seriously (shocking an usher when, on the 50th anniversary of my baptism, I went to the church where the deed had been done — amidst great caterwauling on my part, I'm reliably informed — and asked him to help me find the baptismal font, which had been moved in a post-conciliar wreckovation, so that I could kiss it).

In baptism, the Spirit descends and takes a place in the believer's life.

So are they going to «take back» the proxy baptisms?

«It is ironic for someone to claim they are being targeted by the measures we have taken to prevent unauthorized submissions for baptism,» Purdy said.

The Lutheran understanding of the Christian as «at the same time righteous and sinner» is set forth, as is the Catholic view that «all that is sin «in the proper sense»» is taken away in baptism, though «an inclination (concupiscence)» toward sin remains.

It takes a pretty big stretch of the imagination to believe that this text is talking about a spiritual baptism and not water baptism.

In a sacrament, a material and visible — in brief, a «sensible» — thing or action is taken and used by God, in accordance with the will of Christ (whether that is by direct institution, as with the eucharist, or through what Christians believe to be by the Spirit in the life of the fellowship, as with baptism), to convey and to effect a spiritual, invisible result.

Many Christian traditions believe that a real, literal change takes place when we participate in sacraments like communion or baptism, though we disagree on how that change works.

And that which the Holy Spirit did for Mary, He also does for us, through baptism: the rock of Original Sin is removed and the seed of grace is planted within us so that we «become a soil where the Tree of Life can take root».

But we have our own purity codes these days — people we cast out from our communities or surround with Bible - wielding mobs, labels we assign to those who don't fit, conditions we place on God's grace, theological and behavioral checklists we hand out before baptism or communion, sins real or imagined we delight in taking seriously because we'd like to think they are much more severe than our own.

«You can take 10 baptisms, but if there isn't a change of lifestyle, it doesn't make sense.»

And into that corporate response those who «join the fellowship» are taken by an appropriate liturgical act — baptism — about which we shall have much to say later in this chapter.

Acts is transitional, and so we can not really take the «order of events» in baptism and the coming of the Holy Spirit as normative.

Supposedly, there are 2 billion such folks among us these days — a third of the planet's population who take the name of Christ, bear his cross, have been buried with him by baptism into his death.

«It takes a good deal of deception and manipulation to get an improper submission through the safeguards we have put in place,» LDS Church spokesman Michael Purdy said in a statement Tuesday, responding to the report about the Anne Frank baptism.

That's my take on baptism.

The Bible clearly teaches water baptism is necessary to be saved John 3:3 - 5 which Jesus says Water and Spirit Romans 6: 3 - 4 and many many more places you are right about some of the things baptism represents but please take a closer look at why all the conversions in Acts involve water baptism.

I certainly agree that there are far too many Christians today who don't fully «get it,» but like Clive, I believe that the Church should be making sure that those taking part in the baptism know what they're getting themselves into, not to do away with it.

And of course, most congregations take it as unanimous in the New Testament that Mary and Joseph lived in Nazareth before Jesus was born (contra Matthew), there was at Jesus» baptism a public announcement from heaven as to his divinity (contra Mark and Luke), Jesus was rejected in his home town because he was a familiar local figure (contra Luke), Peter was the foremost apostle (contra John), and Judas hanged himself (contra Luke, in Acts)

In our culture, water baptism may not be the best way to symbolize that a radical change has taken place in your life.

And baptism can take place everywhere, just like spirit baptism can take place everywhere.

For example, as the disciples from outside the text, in contrast to the disciples inside the text, we learn from the narrator of Mark's Gospel the words the heavenly voice spoke to Jesus as the Spirit descended into him at his baptism, «You are my beloved Son; in you I began to take pleasure.»

Mormons quoting 1 Corinthians 15:29 as defense for baptism of the dead take it completely out of context.

It is true, as St. Paul says that Christ loved the Church and sacrificed himself to make her holy, making her clean by baptism, but he is waiting to take those souls to himself so that they will be glorious, with no speck or wrinkle, but holy and without blemish (Eph.

The order of deacons purifies and discerns those who do not carry God's likeness within themselves and it does so before they come to the sacred rites performed by the priests -LSB-...] That is why during the rite of divine birth [baptism] it is the deacons who take away the postulant's old clothes.

In an earlier article I noted that in India, any discussion about baptism and conversion takes on «added significance because of the understanding that after baptism the «converted» person has not only changed his or her religion but also social milieu, habits, customs, and manners, in addition to forfeiting several legal rights, especially with regard to the inheritance of property.

Both the baptism of believers and the baptism of infants takes place in the Church as the community of faith.