Sentences with phrase «task of the church»

A key task of the church in the next generation will be to provide a lived alternative to feeling like a good consumer in this regard.

The first task of the church is to call people to religious faith, not to train them in social ethics.

So the first task of the church is formation rather than education — not to bring out, but to bring to.

The ethical theological task of the churches today is to find a Christology which can be liberating in a world of relativity.6

For example: • Alister McGrath, who has become more prominent this year, founded in 2004 the Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics, in order to aid «the urgent task of the church today to find ways to present the never - changing gospel of Christ in an ever - changing cultural context.

The basic task of the church is to announce and realize God's free acceptance.

Then the social - ethical task of the church would not be simply to develop strategies within the current political options — though it may certainly include that — but rather to stand as an alternative society that manifests in its own social and political life the way in which a people form themselves when truth and charity rather than survival are their first order of business.

While the Churches were seeking common grounds in missionary work and doctrinal discussion, they found an area where they could exert even greater co-operation — the life of working together in facing the social tasks of the Church.

Intercession for the state is the most central task of a church.

This distinctive, contemporary version of the marriage to Lady Poverty may well be the Franciscan task of the Church in the West at this historical moment.

For Pope John Paul, the evangelising task of the Church today must not only use new methods and means of expression, but be suffused with a new ardour.

Williams was fond of saying that the special task of the church historian was to make meaningful at least two articles of the creed: the una sancta and the communio sanctorum.

If a local congregation announced today that it planned to close its church school because it did not see the Christian education of children as the legitimate task of a church, that announcement would, I suspect, produce no little criticism and consternation.

Second, I have returned to the work I left off in the beginning of the «60s, the self - critical task of the church called systematic theology.

How long will the Christians and people of the United States have to contemplate the incongruity of its government... as it supports with over a million dollars a day another government that represses, kills bishops, religious workers, children, men and women, violates human rights, closes itself to dialogue and obstructs the pastoral task of the churches?

Prayer and intercession for those who hold state power is one of the basic political tasks of the Church.

... [the development of] an engaged, articulate and well - formed Catholic laity endowed with a strong critical sense vis - a-vis the dominant culture... and the presentation of a convincing articulation of the Christian vision of man and society remain a primary task of the Church in your country; as essential components of the new evangelization, these concerns must shape the vision and goals of catechetical programmes at every level.

The third task of the church is to be a model of peoplehood under the rule of God, to be that preview of the age to come.

She then outlines five normative tasks of the church in relationship with government.

the joint task of the church and the seminary.

The inescapable task of the church is to find the historical means of witnessing to the living truth of the apostolic faith.

Christians often strive to influence the world to be more just, but you argue that the «first task of the church is to make the world the world».

This chapter addresses the need for a correct methodology (hermeneutic) so that private interpretations can be corrected and fresh stimulus gained for the ongoing theological task of the church.

The social task of the church is to manifest its faith, outwardly and practically.

Reinforcing the message of baptism should be the central task of the church.

Wherever he went he talked about this basic task of the Church.

Several recent books provide an opposite imbalance, emphasizing the congregation's normative relationship to Christian narrative.18 «The social - ethical task of the church,» says one,»... is to be the kind of community that tells and tells rightly the story of Jesus.

Now although it is true that in a sense the task of the Church is always the same, for it always means introducing something of the spiritual life of the contemporary God into a community, in another sense its work must differ according to circumstances.

Hauerwas insists that the first task of the church is not to make the world more just, but to make the world the world — by which he means that the best favor the church can do for the world is to live as a different sort of people, and thereby at least offer the world something interesting in which not to believe,

During the war far - reaching changes were taking place in the nation, changes that were vitally to affect the task of the Churches.

If the future Church is to have laymen who cooperate responsibly in the tasks of the Church, then surely it is time to begin to train them and to give them a share in the decisions of the Church, even if the administration would function more smoothly without them.

Hauerwas insists the first task of the church is to be a people, an ecclesia, called out from the world (the root meaning of ek - klesia), whose task is not first to change the world but to form a people who live in accordance with the nonviolent way of Jesus.

Far from dismissing as politically irresponsible John Howard Yoder's argument that the first task of the church is to be itself, I see that statement as a call to redefine the political from the perspective of Christ's kingdom.

Before Dallas: The U.S. Bishops» Response to Clergy Sexual Abuse of Children by Nicholas P. Cafardi Paulist, 255 pages, $ 27.95 In a 1979 allocution, John Paul II declared that «the task of the Church and her historic merit, which is to proclaim and defend in every place and in....

Is it the task of the church to adjust to the world or to change it?

It is a commitment to hold together with those who share a similar norm, to carry on mature conversations, to affirm a oneness in the gospel, while working on the issues that currently divide.3 Evangelicals need the collective wisdom of their best minds and spirits working together on the theological task of the church.