Sentences with phrase «upbuilding of»

Luke refers three times to the act of conversion in Acts, underlying its vital importance to the survival and upbuilding of the early Church.

Postmodern theology will be oriented to the upbuilding of human community, and community with the natural world as well.

First, as just indicated, the layman is the «ultimate consumer» for whom the church exists, and there can be no «upbuilding of the Body of Christ» unless laymen are being built up in the power of the gospel.

There we have an example of congregational care and discipline that joins together for the upbuilding of the Christian community.

Our inquiry in this chapter will aim to make some assessment of three dominant types of American church life in terms of their success in inculcating personal religion and communicating the gospel for the upbuilding of vital Christian experience.

This is not to say that sin and penitence are the only notes that need to be sounded; there is need of a positive upbuilding of personality.

She declared in The Life of the Spirit and the Life of Today (E. P. Dutton, 1923) that society would be enhanced «if the civil wars of civilized man could cease and be replaced by that other mental fight, for the upbuilding of Jerusalem.»

He had praise for Luther's role in providing inspiration for creative and meaningful activity in socialist Germany — an impetus for Christians and non-Christians alike in the upbuilding of a socialist state.

«I have felt that Vanderbilt University was Methodist, not in the sense that Methodists made it, but in the sense that it was a great trust committed to the Methodist Church to be carried out, not for selfish ends, but for the good of society and the upbuilding of Christ's kingdom.»

Not exact matches

In Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits, the reader is to reflect along with the author on what purity of heart is, how to acquire absolute confidence in Divine providence, and what it means to follow Christ.

Kierkegaard had written and published eighteen of these discourses, in sets of two, three, and four (republished in one volume in 1844) before he wrote Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions and Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits.

The author of upbuilding discourses does not exhort, does not pass judgment.

These highly self - conscious groups have deliberately, and on the basis of well - articulated evangelical mandates, provided the means for motivational and educational upbuilding.

Fortunately, the church has the means of focusing Christian minds and upbuilding the community: the sacraments.

Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions by søren kierkegaard princeton university press, 181 pages, $ 39 Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits by søren kierkegaard princeton university press, 442 pages, $ 45 Kierkegaard presented these two books of discourses to his....

First, it is to fail to see that the creatures, including you and me and whatever else is not God, have their own degree of freedom and their own capacity for choices that may be good or bad, upbuilding or destructive.

No, it was rather an «upbuilding» that called for a costly abandonment of the security of the old under walls.

This conviction could shape covenanted communities of faith, and thereby influence both the character of persons and the structures of public institutions to upbuild, broaden, awaken and guide the conduct of life.

See Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits, 134: «While the crowd makes a big noise and uproar and triumphs and jubilates; while one individual after the other hurries to the crowd's arena, where it is said to be good to be if one is seeking oblivion and indulgence from the eternal; while the crowd seems to be shouting mockingly at God, «All right, see if you can get hold of us!»

The primary function of Zionism today is to stimulate Jews in the Diaspora who possess a sense of adventure and are proficient in one or another field of endeavor to come to Israel and contribute to its upbuilding.

Thus all that is upbuilding, expressive of love and tenderness, eager for the right, concerned for justice, informed by courage, able to establish sound relationships and sound dealings — all that manifests beauty and that speaks of truth — all this is the working of God, who moves in the world by the Word and from that world receives the Amen of responsive conformity through the Holy Spirit active in the creation.

If the Church has nothing to say that challenges, remakes, upbuilds human life, it is only a respectable and semidecadent human institution, and nothing to worry much about if it goes out of business.

In the church as the body of Christ the cross came to mean the extending of self - denial to incorporation into a community where the personal religious quest of each member was subordinated to the upbuilding in love of the whole.

He waits to inform us, to use us in prayer and through it, to impart healing and upbuilding power to the lives of others when we pray.

Let that Letter be a fitting epitaph for the apostle to the Gentiles, in whose tradition we stand and who has inspired Pope Benedict to declare this special Pauline Year for the upbuilding and good of all the faithful:

Our present concern, however, is not with this obvious and distressing manifestation of disharmony in social life but with the disharmony itself — that is, the failure on the part of men and women to discern that true community and sound relationships within it can be found only as each of us has his or her place in a wider grouping of humans, where there is vivid contrast because each is valued as being precisely this or that person while the community as a whole has goals or ends (what used to be called «ideals») that are worthy, upbuilding, and enriching.

And although it's not a color I wear regularly, when I do wear it I always get a sense of happiness and lightheartedness, it's such an upbuilding color.

When one of her works was included in a group show at Betty Parsons in March 1952, the New York Times critic Howard Devree compared it with Nell Blaine's «intricate upbuilding» in a scene suggestive of mountains, stating: «Perle Fine's canvas has reached the utmost in economy in two areas of bluish - green bordering a sweep of white as if the shadow of a cloud had all but obscured a landscape.»

A pictorial series of posts with your mes slowly disolving would be very upbuilding to others out here who have moved or are going to do so.