Sentences with phrase «terms spoken in my church»

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Speaking with LBC, she said: «The Church of England has itself come a distance in terms of looking at these issues.

James Carne who works at CAP Job Clubs UK believes churches have an obligation to continue to help those finding it hard to get work, speaking on Premier's «News Hour», he said: «There is still a big gap in terms of opportunities or help for people who are seeking work.

Speaking at report's launch at St. Mary le - Bow church in the City of London, Dr Rowan Williams told Premier: «Government policy has actually been moving in the direction we'd like to see it moving in terms of tax transparency and better regulation.

You also speak as though you are certain no gay people are present and that «we evengelical Christians» are talking amonst ourself about what an entire group of people deserve in terms of full inclusion and acceptance in society and the church.

I'll start: I feel most at home in a church that 1) takes its mission to care for the poor and marginalized seriously, 2) does not make assumptions about its congregation's political positions nor emphasizes political action to begin with, 3) speaks of Scripture in terms of its ability to «equip us for every good work,» 4) embraces diversity (theologically, ethnically, etc.) and allows women to assume leadership positions.

In particular, we may note that there are three points at which the Kingdom teaching of the synoptic tradition tends to differ both from Judaism and from the early Church as represented by the remainder of the New Testament: in the use of the expression Kingdom of God for (1) the final act of God in visiting and redeeming his people and (2) as a comprehensive term for the blessings of salvation, i.e. things secured by that act of God, and (3) in speaking of the Kingdom as «coming»In particular, we may note that there are three points at which the Kingdom teaching of the synoptic tradition tends to differ both from Judaism and from the early Church as represented by the remainder of the New Testament: in the use of the expression Kingdom of God for (1) the final act of God in visiting and redeeming his people and (2) as a comprehensive term for the blessings of salvation, i.e. things secured by that act of God, and (3) in speaking of the Kingdom as «coming»in the use of the expression Kingdom of God for (1) the final act of God in visiting and redeeming his people and (2) as a comprehensive term for the blessings of salvation, i.e. things secured by that act of God, and (3) in speaking of the Kingdom as «coming»in visiting and redeeming his people and (2) as a comprehensive term for the blessings of salvation, i.e. things secured by that act of God, and (3) in speaking of the Kingdom as «coming»in speaking of the Kingdom as «coming».

Durant himself is not nostalgic for the murderous days or groups, but it is not rare to hear intellectuals speak in envious terms of the young who have found something to believe in, or to hear them deride mainline religious groups for seeing their young drift, such churches having failed to demand absolutism and conformity and fanaticism.

Since Christ and Messiah are kingly terms, when Paul speaks of the corporate life of Christ in the church, he is also thinking of the rule and reign of God on earth through the body of Christ, the church.

«One of the key things for churches is to realise this is not just a political issue, it's a personal issue, and therefore we mustn't only speak of it in terms of government proposals and societal trends; this is an issue many of us in our churches are wrestling with at a personal level,» says Allberry.

As journalist Stewart Lamont writes in Religion Inc: The Church of Scientology, «This org - speak is a feature of Scientology in which all terms are defined strictly and processes given technical names by Ron.

By speaking in terms of mother and daughter churches, the mother churches are given a clear role in church planting.

Although it would be a mistake to suppose that Paul speaks at every point for all the early church — that he surely does not do, as he himself lets us know in no uncertain terms — still he represents more clearly than any other early Christian leader the direction which Christian reflection upon Jesus actually took.

Some speak in individual terms of the cultivation of the Christian life or the salvation of souls; others state their goal to be the building up of the corporate life of the Church or of some part of it; again the goal is defined as the «communication of the vital and redeeming doctrines of Scriptures,» or it is otherwise described by reference to the Bible as the ultimate source of all that is to be taught and preached.

In speaking of the church's emancipation from the world we do not imply, as the romantic perversion of Christianity implies, that civilization as such is worldly, in the apostolic meaning of that terIn speaking of the church's emancipation from the world we do not imply, as the romantic perversion of Christianity implies, that civilization as such is worldly, in the apostolic meaning of that terin the apostolic meaning of that term.

Theologians spoke of the church in functional terms, as a project - a way of obedience that must be continually fashioned within the particular situation in history in the light of the ultimate purpose of God for history.

Pastors in larger churches feel acutely that they must speak not only to the core, but also to the community, and these results show they fear the term won't work anymore in their surrounding communities.»

Today as never before the Church is equipped to address same - sex issues in the first person, to speak of same - sex attraction in terms of «I» rather than «you.»

The conclusion drawn from the research is that electronic church broadcasts rarely speak to people outside their natural constituency, but speak to people already highly «religious» in terms of their literalistic and charismatic beliefs.

We learned that in all likelihood Jesus did not speak as he does in John's Gospel; that even the synoptic Gospels are a complex mixture of historical memory and post-Easter interpretation; that the image of Jesus as one who deliberately gave his life for the sins of the world is the product of the church's sacrificial theology; and that Jesus probably did not proclaim his own exalted identity, or even think of himself in such terms.

My friends were often preoccupied with how the «unconditioned,» as Tillich spoke of «it» (although all my friends knew he meant God), could erupt and reveal «itself» in the midst of life — beyond the church, outside of religion, without anything resembling worship and in terms one could not read in the Bible or hear from the pulpit.

Returning to World War II, McDonnell says it is hard not to envy the freedom of religious leaders such as William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Willem Visser» t Hooft, who would later head the World Council of Churches, to speak out forcefully and in very specific terms.

But it should be clear now that whatever good speaking terms we might be on with the British government and media, they are on the whole not interested in anything less than the complete discrediting of the Catholic Church's claims to divine authority.