Sentences with phrase «to come to faith»

To be sure, some people come to faith in dramatic ways.

Lots of people come to faith at later stages of life and others may lose it.

We may have come to faith through an emotional response but the time must come when we think it out.

I've yet to see anyone minister effectively from a defensive posture, nor have I witnessed anyone who came to faith because they lost a theological argument.

It's a problem, but a real one, especially for those who don't come to the faith in adulthood.

Sad that you waste your time coming to the faith site when you could click on any other link.

Though I didn't find my identity in being part of church in the first place with coming to faith in my 30's.

Second there are plenty of people who come to their faith as it were through something more than bible verses its called critical thinking people can critically think their way to the idea that they are rather small beings in a relatively huge universe and that they realize that they can't know everything and leave some things including the nature of the universe to faith and acknowledge it as faith if that's how they see the world fine is there anything particularly wrong with that?

Nine years after coming to faith, I still feel utterly frustrated that the Church in this country is seen as a place of judgement.

Paul seems not to favor the image of «born again» but prefers instead to speak of coming to faith as being made alive.

Other people come to faith by reading about Jesus.

Andrew Klavan has a memoir coming out this year, tentatively scheduled for publication in September, The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ.

Once someone comes to faith in Christ they are a believer and the Greek word for church is ecclesia which means gathering.

Again, Jesus's delay there, as in John 11, resulted in many coming to faith (4:39 - 42; cf. 11:45).

When people start to join with you, and your numbers begin to grow, and people start coming to faith in Christ, resist the urge to protect what you have gained by reverting to more safe and common ways of doing church.

We've all heard stories of people coming to faith because they asked God to reveal himself, or asked him to help them to understand the Bible.

A fellow Canadian and former agnostic, Carolyn Weber helped me to see that one can come to faith precisely because of Christians, rather than in spite of other Christians.

And from Rachel: Since you do not simply identify as a transgender person, but also as a Christian, I am wondering if you could share a bit of how you first came to faith in Christ, what you believe your calling is, and how you daily live it out.

One thing I've learned since coming to faith is that my best thinking rarely compares to God's best idea.

We'll keep praying for revival in this land and that thousand's if not millions come to faith in Jesus Christ!

This sets a lot of atheists (who for some reason come to a faith blog!)

One of my favourite stories to tell is how my family came to faith in Jesus through a cheesy 70s children's record called Bullfrogs and Butterflies.

Wood says, «When I was Principal of Oak Hill Theological College in 1961 I would ask how many newcomers to the College had come to faith following Billy's crusades and there were never less than 10 %.»

came to faith More

Other factors God has used to bring about today's Muslim movements were less intuitive, yet equally prominent in the testimonies of Muslims coming to faith in Christ.

BTW - Has New York came to faith yet?

Rejecting Paul's confidence, and the inevitable dogmatic corollary, Hick's solution is that God has intentionally made the world ambiguous — i.e., has intentionally created it «to look as if there were no God» so that we can come to faith freely.

And how much growth is due to Christians moving church, rather than non-believers coming to faith?

Last week they asked if I would come to the faith team and the Middle Eastern foreign policy team.

It was through the Youth Group in the parish that I first started coming to Faith Sessions and these have been really important for me.

So then why do we somehow act and perhaps even believe that God would not love the homosexual and wish that the homosexual come to faith in His Son Jesus Christ?

the Conference will explore why Christ alone makes best sense of the universe we inhabit and how our evangelism can be empowered when we understand why sceptics like Lewis, Fulwiler, Libresco and Ordway came to faith.

He used to preach a lot on children coming to faith in Christ, and he would say, «Before a child reaches 7, teach them all there is of heaven, and better still, the work will fly, if he learns before he's five.»

As a Jewish convert, Ruth Rees came to the Faith, and to the Rosary in particular, with a lot of unanswered questions relating to her cultural and religious heritage.

I have reasoned out fairly adequately that I do not ever need to ever think about coming to your faith.

I did not come to faith through Chuck or his ministry.

And good Evangelicals know that this is how disciples grow in their faith, regardless of whether they have been Christians all their lives or have come to faith by a crisis experience.

Andrew Klavan is the author of The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ (Thomas Nelson).