Sentences with phrase «true head of the church»

Does anyone else see the irony that the true head of the Church of England is a woman (Queen Elizabeth II), yet the church has a problem with women bishops?

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The First Vatican Council included language like (the Pope) «is the true vicar of Christ and head of the whole Church and faith, and teacher of all Christians; and that to him was handed down in blessed Peter, by our Lord Jesus Christ, full power to...» This transfer of power depends on the Roman Church's understanding of the Office of the Keys which I do not agree with, but their statements make it clear that the Pope's authority as the Roman Church understands it is derived from Christ's.

The divine head of the Christian Church is the invisible Jesus Christ and every local bishop or pastor should be directly responsible to Him (in the true Church even every ordinary member of the Church or Christian has a high responsibility, not only the pastor).

And so, that which is true of Christ as regards the Church, and true of a husband as regards his wife, is also true of anyone who is «head» or has authority: it is a leadership of service and self - sacrifice.

Perhaps the visual notion of the ascension is the movement of the Christ to the place at the head of the table as our great high priest, the head of the true state that is the church, the body of Christ of which Christians are all parts.

for every priest that violated his vows and the trust of his parishioners there will someday be a reckoning... true the head always suffers for his members that go astray... but the Brits don't understand the Catholic church if they think that we are going to accept practicing man and females gays into the priesthood and except the pope to issue condoms for the prevention of AID they got something else coming... If the Brits want to live in a perverse society where every thing goes that their moral problem!!

Clergy who serve as heads of multiple - staff churches form a separate group, one in which only others in similar situations are seen as true peers.

After all that I forgot even what I thought I did in the first place, And I tell myself that if I am doing all of that then I care about it, and then I think about it and that it's possible to just go on with my life without stressing about all of this... and then when I die I'll go to hell and burn forever... and then at the same time I don't want to constantly freak out about it and live my entire life in fear of going to hell... My Parents are Atheists and say that I should just live my life without worrying about it and being nice to people and being an overall good person, and I'm not old enough to go to church, so I just repent quietly in my room, Perhaps when I was younger I have sworn to god on things that may or may not have been true, and then I repeat those things in my head, and I would get scared.

The question of the church, seen from the inside, is not how it can measure up to the expectations of society nor what it must do to become a savior of civilization, but rather how it can be true to itself: that is, to its Head.

In contrast the head of the true Church is Jesus Christ.

Not true, women have very important jobs in the Church, we have doctors of the Church that are females, head of catholic organizations, do you know that the mayority of female CEO attended catholic schools?

But in the words of Leo the Great, «Peter is the true leader of all, who have in the first place Christ as their leader... The strength which Christ gives to Peter passes through Peter to the Apostles — because he gave such authority to him whom he chose as head of the whole Church.»

The marks of the true church are «especially the lawful and sincere preaching of the Word of God as it was delivered to us in the books of the prophets and the apostles, which all lead us unto Christ... the only head and foundation of the Church,» and the participation of faithful believers in the sacraments instituted by Christ, worshiping one God with «one faith and one spirit.&church are «especially the lawful and sincere preaching of the Word of God as it was delivered to us in the books of the prophets and the apostles, which all lead us unto Christ... the only head and foundation of the Church,» and the participation of faithful believers in the sacraments instituted by Christ, worshiping one God with «one faith and one spirit.&Church,» and the participation of faithful believers in the sacraments instituted by Christ, worshiping one God with «one faith and one spirit.»