Sentences with phrase «to be an apostle»
Paul was the apostle of Christian unity.
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His grandfather was an apostle in the Mormon church, his father is a lay leader in the church, and Huntsman himself was a Mormon missionary to Taiwan, which gave him the language skills that helped land his last job, as President Barack Obama's ambassador to China.
«Let me tell you a little bit about what the Bible says about Judas: He was personally chosen to be an apostle by Jesus.
The question you have to ask yourself, is what were the apostles thinking when they used the word faith.
first are apostles, second are prophets, third are teachers, then those who do miracles, those who have the gift of healing, those who can help others, those who have the gift of leadership, those who speak in unknown languages.
17 I did not go up to Jerusalem to see those who were apostles before I was, but I went into Arabia.
Since all of these events are not repeatable — someone alive today was not present when Jesus was alive, or saw Jesus after He rose from the dead, or watched Him rise into heaven — then there are no apostles today.
The Nicene Creed is indeed the whole Church's creed, as Dan Biles writes, but then so is the Apostles» Creed.
We may further assume that St. Thomas is the apostle of all India, and Bartholomew who was a companion of Thomas also visited India and brought with him a copy of the Gospel of the Nazarenes.
For the sake of argument, even if Junia were an apostle «in the sense of having seen the risen Lord» it doesn't mean he / she was in authority as an Apostle in the Church.
~ ~ Were the apostles prisoners or have they committed any crime?
Stanley is an apostle of change.
Why were the apostles at Pentecost accused of being full of wine when they began speaking in tongues?
As he enumerated the tasks of faith, being an apostle came first; being a prophet came second, preceding such essential tasks as teaching and heeling.
Aside from being an apostle, the people that followed Paul as their spiritual father appear to have done so by their own choice.
In 167 B.C. Antiochus precipitated a full - scale revolt when, having already forbidden the practice of Judaism on pain of death, he set up in the Jewish temple an altar to Zeus and offered swine's flesh upon it (which the Book of Daniel refers to as the «abomination of desolation») Antiochus was an apostle of Hellenism and meant to bring his entire realm under the influence of Greek ways.
They've been after me because i use to be a apostle until I sinned.
In Luther's words, «Most certainly father and mother are apostles, bishops, and priests to their children, for it is they who make them acquainted with the gospel.
How then is an apostle made?
In the Christian tradition Bartholomew was the apostle to Arabia, Persia, India and Armenia.
Nobody can truly be an apostle unless he has first been seized by the grace of God and thereby undergone a profound conversion.
Just as Christ was sent, so also are the apostles.
about the only thing i can stomach is the apostle's creed and two lines from it don't sit right with me.
The earliest Christian writer whose works are extant is the apostle Paul, and from him our investigation should begin.
I don't mean to say that those men were Apostles.
Paul, Timothy, Barnabas Silas and Apollos were all apostles, as were Andronicus and Junia.
For example the author of Jude could have easily been the apostle mentioned in Luke 6:16, and Acts 1:13 as «Judas the brother of James» in the King James Bible.
It could be, but the problem with trying to say that all believers are apostles is that the Biblical definition of an apostle includes being appointed directly by Christ, and having seen the risen Lord.
What arose was the apostles» faith, which impelled them to proclaim the kerygma.
How many years did Paul spend healing, being fed, led and taught to move from being a zelot that persecuted the church (a flaw, not a mistate) to being an apostle embracing the mission God called him to?
Third, the disciples are the apostles of the master; they are the proclaimers of his «teaching.»
The first heralds were the Apostles and for that reason the Church is called Apostolic.
Barnes was an apostle of formal values, pressing the American public to understand paintings not in terms of narrative and representation but in terms of the power of color and composition to provoke feeling and meaning.
If Rick Santorum indeed meant climate scientists are Apostles of a supposed «pseudo-religion,» who, by inference, would be their pseudo-savior?
Paul was the apostle of grace.