Sentences with phrase «upon the church»

• A focus upon the church as the hope of the world, if it would live, act, and be different for the gospel.
The impact of the human relations laboratory movement upon the church in encouraging the development of sharing group efforts to make the church more supportive has succeeded to a degree.
Here again resurrection is dependent upon the church, and with church unity and prayer the various personal threads of order which were originally embodied individually continue to live on socially.
To impose a vision upon a church is not only unhealthy, but deadly to the genuine life of the church.
For it is as true of us as it was of the Corinthians that we have shamefully lost the knowledge of God and must renew our faith in the resurrection and the claim it lays upon the church of Christ before we can get on with the mission of liberation.
«The apocalyptic end of the war» lay upon the church a responsibility to «preach to modern man the good news of possible salvation.»
Does it suggest — I trust it does — the possibility of reconnoitering nontheistic perspectives for their potential impact upon the church's present task of self - clarification?
On that day, after the Holy Spirit came upon the church, Peter preached a sermon, and several thousand people were added to the church on one day.
FAITH Magazine January - February 2010 In this Year of the Priest we publish a British Bishop's defence against another full frontal attack upon the Church in an earlier age.
But for Luke, this Jesus was a new and greater Elijah, who like the Old Testament prototype would be «received up» literally into heaven; then, in stark contrast to the Elijah prototype, who bestowed his enormous but still human spirit on Elisha, this Jesus would bestow his infinite spirit upon the church, giving it life for all ages.
Well, if I'm not mistaken, said doctrine is heavily based upon the Church's interpretation of the Bible.
Once I jokingly mentioned to my in - laws that if they ever stumbled upon a church pew to snatch it up for me.
God and emperors were active participants in a persecution, allowed, for a time, to be the vehicle of the chastening hand of God upon a church which needed to be corrected.
Those who affirm this feel bound to urge upon those churches which exclude the full participation of women in top leadership that ways be sought in which women can be increasingly involved in positions of full responsibility».64
A stranger may for hours wander about some old and poor quarter of London, peering into the show windows, casually interested in the traffic of the street, wondering at the hurly - burly of the city, and then, when least expecting it, may light upon some church so hidden that one easily could miss it.
If the temptation is to look upon the church as a haven of togetherness in a hostile or indifferent society, the church need not succumb.
It bestowed upon the church also the gift of highly educated and cultured ministers who, profoundly aware of the needs of modern life, became the proponents of the advancement of modern civilization and the leaders of many progressive movements in education and social reform.
Skepticism is the weight that secular culture brings to bear upon the Church today.
It has had no ontological identity; it is codependent upon a Church that it has left and has erroneously called itself a church.
Peter and Paul worked within imperfect systems because any outright challenge to the law of the land would bring persecution down upon the Church in great number.
It is through Mary (and Peter and John) that the form of Christ is imprinted upon the Church and carried through history.
At the end of the century the effect of these waves upon the Church of England could be clearly seen.
Levying property taxes upon churches would have the effect of closing the doors of thousands of small congregations that operate on a shoestring.
This fact in itself places upon the church a heavy responsibility to review the preaching - communication problem and to take the necessary steps to solve it.
It was only when he emerged as a leader of the Church at Antioch that he began to exert an important influence upon the Church as a whole.
The aged Heidegger might have anointed himself with holy water whenever he chanced upon a church while hiking, but when he ominously said that «only a god can save us» in a 1966 Der Spiegel interview (published upon his death ten years later), he seemed to be talking about some «god» who is yet to be revealed, or perhaps the Greek gods to which the German poet Hölderlin had returned.
«I apologize for my error in judgment and feel shame for the disgrace I have brought upon the church and myself,» Archbishop - designate Salvatore Cordileone said in a written statement.
People who have nothing to do with the Church but who reverence our Lord are dependent upon the Church for the possibility of their reverence.
Out of all the sins the sin of fornication and immorality — if left to prosper in a church with no one speaking against it — will bring down damnation upon that church — The church can be in the world the same way a boat can be on the see but the world in the church will sink the church the same way the see in a boat will!
And if we are sent by this Host to exercise his hospitality in the world, we are not at liberty to impose upon the church and its mission patterns of hospitality that are the products of our racial, ethnic, class, gender or other personal backgrounds — including our sexual orientation.
Similarly Christ bestows His Body and Blood upon the Church.
The self - acknowledged sacerdotal sinner prayed that the Lord Jesus in granting peace and unity to the Church look not upon his sins but rather upon the Church's faith which Christ himself assures.
It is a judgment upon the Church and its ministry if, with our belief in God's grace, we repeat the great symbols and doctrines of atonement but actually practice less of a costing identification with the sufferings of men and women than do those who counsel with them under secular auspices.
Why insist upon a church wedding when the church (Peter, the rock upon whom the church was built) does not ordain it?
These two conversations — the one between laymen and the other between ministers — clearly focus for us the problem of relationship between the church and the world as it touches upon the church's preaching responsibility.
Having recognised the value of marriage, in the subsequent paragraphs (48 - 52) it expands upon the Church's understanding of marriage:
This would impose categories of power and authority drawn from the sphere of earthly politics upon the Church, which is the mystical body of Christ.
The style is similar: autobiographical material interwoven with forthright reflection upon the Church and the world.
«It was as if John Paul was back,» said one young seminarian in attendance, acknowledging the particular charism of hope and enthusiasm which the Holy Spirit is continuing to pour upon the Church through the witness of Karol Wojtyla.
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