Sentences with phrase «teach exhortation»

A leading civil rights advocate teaches the exhortation: «I am somebody.»

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For the consecrated life (as John Paul II taught in the 1996 apostolic exhortation Vita Consecrata) is the spiritual engine of the Church, in which the energies of evangelism are refined and shared in a great exchange of gifts by which the entire Church, the bride of Christ, strives for union with her divine spouse.

Like (Episcopalian) Joseph Fletcher, who taught Situation Ethics in the 1960s, the exhortation suggests that there are exceptions to every moral rule and that there is no such thing as an intrinsically evil act.

Unfazed by their track record, they are now warning that Francis will shred Catholic teaching in his upcoming Apostolic Exhortation on the Synod.

First of all, the gospel is not simply the teaching of Jesus, particularly when this is understood as denoting his religious and moral admonitions and exhortations.

The teaching of Christ in the gospels is full of exhortations to «works righteousness,» however inconvenient they may prove for certain established strains of Christian dogmatics, and the episode of the young ruler is wholly lacking in the sort of exegetical ambiguities that might allow for reassuring evasions of that sort.

On the other hand, Paul told Titus about Elders, «He must hold firmly to the faithful message as it has been taught, so that he will be able to give exhortation in such healthy teaching and correct those who speak against it.»

All too much of the time we consider our preaching to be an exercise in theological teaching, in moral exhortation, or in pious meditation.

it is not only adults who are being asked to submit to one another, but adults are being asked to submit themselves to children — an exhortation echoing Jesus» teaching that the great will be recognized by their service to children.

Until I come, devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, to exhortation, to teaching.

Most ministers seem to despair of teaching their lay men «how,» and consequently resort to exhortation and aphorisms.

I know that Mars Hill [Driscoll's church] will allow women to share, or do teaching of some kind, but it's put in terms of «exhortation», and this and that.

A great light of religion shone on the minds of the hearers of Peter, so that they were not satisfied with a single hearing or with the unwritten teaching of the divine proclamation, but with every kind of exhortation besought Mark, whose Gospel is extant, seeing that he was Peter's follower, to leave them a written statement of the teaching given them verbally, nor did they cease until they had persuaded him, and so became the cause of the Scripture called the Gospel According to Mark (49).

It is teaching, or exhortation (paraklesis), or it is what they called homilia, that is, the more or less informal discussion of various aspects of Christian life and thought, addressed to a congregation already established in the faith.

The concluding verses, 8 and 9, reflect a series of attempts to use the parable in Christian teaching or exhortation.

Followers are not indifferent to Jackson's failings or ignorant of the crevasse between his ethical exhortations and his own deeds, but they are able to locate him in a religious tradition that has long taught that God can and does act through the most imperfect of servants.

While I am grateful for Evan Lenow's exhortation to fellow Protestants to take seriously the Catholic Church's teaching on sexual morality, I was surprised that he fails to see the fundamental difference between natural family planning (NFP) and contraception.

Especially with the speaking gifts; prophecy, exhortation, teaching and administration.

[4] Furnish showed that Paul was a critical and selective user of contemporary material, that his exhortations are significantly different from classical paraenesis, and that his specific ethical teaching is inseparably linked to his theological teaching.

The proclamation of the good news of divine love, of the forgiveness of sin and the deliverance from evil; exhortation to lead the Christian life; instruction of young and old in the Christian faith — these evidently require not only that the minister have heard and apprehended the gospel, comprehended the law and learned the creed, but that he have gained insight into the ways of God and men and that he grow continually in his understanding of them; that further he have grasped the meaning of preaching and teaching in relation to all the other activities he and the Church carry on.

12:6 - 8: «Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them: if prophecy, in proportion to our faith; if service, in our serving; he who teaches, in his teaching; he who exhorts, in his exhortation; he who contributes, in liberality; he who presides, with zeal; he who does acts of mercy, with cheerfulness.»

In Peter's brief exhortation some theological implications should arrest our attention as evidence of what had already become the convictions of the apostles and were through their teachings to become guiding principles in the life of the primitive church.

Writing, teaching, and making art themselves, the Albers possessed an energy that infused a new type of curriculum, defined by John Dewey's exhortation to «learn by doing.»