Sentences with phrase «teaching obedience to»

The institutional church is so often like Satan... longing to be worshipped and obeyed; teaching that obedience to one scripture is more important than balancing them all; luring us to abuse our power to make a difficult path chosen by God into a simple solution of no new spiritual growth (Matt 4).

Private Group Classes in your neighborhood, church, school or maybe you and some friends just want to get together to teach obedience to your dogs.

Not exact matches

Only a mature, paschal faith — an Easter faith — can perceive who Jesus is, understand what Jesus taught, and grasp what Jesus has accomplished by his obedience to the Father.

Mormonism teaches that Jesus suffered for our sins in the Garden of Gethsemane, providing personal salvation (which may mean exaltation to godhood) conditional upon our obedience to the laws and ordinances of the LDS gospel.

Those who teach this view have some verses which seem to indicate «salvation» lasts forever, but those who are opposed to «Once Saved, Always Saved» point out numerous verses which say that «salvation» depends on continued obedience, faithfulness, and good works.

The only reason that the teaching of a «devil» exists in my opinion is because it is a useful tool for religious leaders to use to frighten people into obedience to their edicts.

It forces recognition of the fact that Jesus» teaching did not center around such ideas as the infinite worth of personality, the cultivation of the inner life, the development of man toward an ideal; that Jesus spoke rather of the coming Kingdom of God, which was to be God's gift, not man's achievement, of man's decision for or against the Kingdom, and of the divine demand for obedience.

That is a central Christian teaching which many Christians find offensive since they have fallen into the Galatian heresy of beginning in the Gospel, but returning to the Law: saved by Grace, but remain saved by our obedience.

Contrary to the teachings of many religious men, the love of God does not mean the submission of one's will in obedience to God.

The Roman Catechism, issued in 1566, three years after the end of the Council of Trent, taught that the power of life and death had been entrusted by God to civil authorities and that the use of this power, far from involving the crime of murder, is an act of paramount obedience to the fifth commandment.

What does it teach man — to be careful and walk in obedience.

Rather then trying to combine faith / works / and obedience together, as is commonly taught in reformed theology.

The fidelity of bishops and priests to the teaching of the Church and to their solemn vows; the fidelity of bishops in exercising oversight in ensuring obedience to that teaching and to those vows; and the fidelity of the lay faithful in holding bishops and priests accountable.

Obedience deals with the doing of what is known to be YAHWEH»S will, as taught by the Word, the SetApart Spirit and our conscience.

Ok, I believe the ultimate good is, «obedience» to the teaching of the NT.

The teaching regarding a hierarchy in male and female relationships is only one aspect of a larger and necessary ordering of all reality that extends into the Godhead itself © # Christ's obedience and submission to the Father and the Holy Spirit's subordination to the Son).

To regard Jesus as revealing God because of his ideal human obedience does not, in Brunner's opinion, safeguard the distinctive teaching of Christian faith.

Canons 752 and 753 of the 1983 Code of Canon Law use the expression «religious obedience of the intellect and will,» which has become the specific way of describing adherence to non-infallible statements of the hierarchical teaching authority.

of the will and intellect» to designate obedience toward the hierarchical teaching authority creates problems, its exclusive application in Lumen gentium 25 to non-infallible teaching authority is still not clear.

One indication of this is the emphasis in recent Church documents on obedience to the hierarchical teaching authority and on the relationship between hierarchical superiority and subordination.

In Christianity, the obedience is to what God has taught: love of Him and love of neighbor.

Even among those who have not been entirely scandalised the celibacy, the commitment to prayer, the obedience to authority and the lack of status and financial remuneration stand in stark contrast to everything they have been taught to value.

The church possesses, or better is possessed by, the principle of life «in Christ» — a life of discipleship that is not simply obedience to a set of moral truths supposedly taught by Jesus but a life in which «Christ dwells in our hearts by faith» and enables his people to act, insofar as they are able, in conformity with his pattern of human existence.

His teachings indicate that he wanted his followers to be obedient to GOD above all and that when no conflict between the two exists, the the former obedience (Caesar or the LAW of the land or government as it were) was in essence obedience to God.

We have stressed the direct and concrete nature of the challenge to faith in the teaching of Jesus; we turn now to explore further the response - as - obedience aspect of that teaching in terms of a group of sayings which exhibit the radical and total character of the challenge of Jesus altogether.

But I want now to indicate three facts which I have encountered in my experience as a teacher, who, because he came to that function by way of the parish ministry, has never been able to have an immediate and lively sense of vocation save in relation to the church and its teaching and preaching obedience.

One is entitled to use words such as absolute or complete in connection with trust and obedience in the teaching of Jesus.

So it is more than likely that he will use our work to teach us selfless love, obedience and reliance on him, to teach us to pray and to hear his voice, to help us grow in the fruit of the Spirit, and to exercise the gifts of the Spirit.

Thus a teacher is not and never can be a civil servant... Whatever authority he may possess to teach and control children, and to claim their respect and obedience, comes to him from God, through the parents and not through the State, except in so far as the State is acting on behalf of the parents.

What if obedience and service were built in to the teaching aspect of the church?

Jesus» ethics are set forth as the conditions of entrance into the coming kingdom, but in reality there is only one condition — complete obedience to the will of God.23 Both the radical ethical teachings of Jesus and his proclamation of the kingdom find their unity in the crisis of decision before God.

That's why I'm teaching the online course on the Gospel... to carefully explain the freeness of grace and the role of good works and obedience in light of the gospel.

You have not professed to be teaching and nor have you set yourself up as a teacher, you have shared something God gave you and done so in obedience.

By the eleventh century most of the ulama were teaching that obedience was an absolute duty, even to an unjust ruler, since an unjust ruler was better than none at all.

«Obedience to conscience leads to obedience to the Gospel,» Newman wrote, «which, instead of being something different altogether, is but the completion and perfection of that religion which natural conscience teacheObedience to conscience leads to obedience to the Gospel,» Newman wrote, «which, instead of being something different altogether, is but the completion and perfection of that religion which natural conscience teacheobedience to the Gospel,» Newman wrote, «which, instead of being something different altogether, is but the completion and perfection of that religion which natural conscience teaches.»

The task of teaching us the law and helping us to apply it is the function of the state and the Church, and one can expect his reward or punishment in this life or in eternity, according to his obedience to civil and divine law respectively.

Whatever the view of the teaching silencing women in the church, I know that I am more edified by the Sister that applies this teaching to her life, choosing instead, sacrifice and obedience.

My personal approach is that if I am unsure of the applicability of a teaching that affects me, i'd rather practice obedience to the Word, rather than become a stumbling block for a Christian or a non-believer.

Can the church muster the obedience and courage to embody its teaching that all human life is sacred even in the midst of the racing panic and plague time?

I think Whitehead also knew this, suggesting a radical reversal of the Western philosophical and religious tradition's insistence that virtue, there meant as obedience to law, can be externally taught.

They have stressed obedience to the Lord's command «Go, and teach all nations» but have been shy of stating the conviction of Scripture and Tradition, up to and including Vatican II, that unless they hear the Gospel and enter the Church, many will remain slaves of the devil, the flesh and the world, and may never attain the eternal life Christ won for them upon the Cross.

I've listened to my sisters grieve over how they never knew how to say no when they were approached by sexual predators, because they didn't know they had the basic human right to do so after being taught things like first - time obedience and assuming the best about those in authority no matter what (because God put them in authority, so they have inside info on God's will).

1 Peter 3:21 shows conscience is guided by Gods teaching; the doctrine of baptism guides the inner persons conscience into outward obedience to the teaching of Baptism.

In that chapter, he teaches that Abraham's faith was made «perfect» or «complete» by his obedience to God's word spoken to him.

Promoting the false «trinity «doctrine fantasy, Luke 11:13, Matthew 16:16 & 17, and promoting reverence toward statues, crosses, pictures and dead «saints» instead of teaching that true worship means absolute obedience to the word of God.

It is easy to see how satanically attractive such teaching could be; and it is easy to see how those who propagated it would take to themselves a conscious superiority, contemptuous of those who still allowed themselves to be shackled and constricted by obedience to the moral law or to any other kind of law.

Jesus discipled unbelievers, and let them follow Him, and taught them, and trained them, and called them to an ever - increasing faith and obedience to Him and His way.

When the pastors rightly handle this spiritual sword, namely the Word of God,... all men must with complete obedience be subject to them, i.e. to the Word of God and of Christ which they teach and according to which they pass judgments.

Have you tried other ways to teach obedience?

The lesson behind this Jonah whale activity is to teach your toddler or preschooler about obedience.