Sentences with phrase «visible church»

There were churches, never one all - inclusive visible Church.

Broadcasting it poses no problems about the separation of church and state, for who can raise a legal challenge to the message that the true visible church on earth is You.

History and contemporary visible church life make it quite clear to us that when we say «I believe in the Holy Catholic Church» we can not mean this church.

A Christianity without visible churches is backward - looking and seething with rage.

Universality or catholicism means the visible church must b united under Christ.

Still, Bonhoeffer's presence at what he called «quite a wonderful Mass» did bear witness to a kind of broken unity, a sanctorum communio not yet fully realized in the visible church of the undivided Christ here and now.

I have come to believe that Paul was seeing the formation of the two pieces of the Body of Christ before his eyes — a hidden church and a visible church.

Disagree, the problem with the visible church today is that it is full of lost people (religious but lost) no effective power because they have never been born again, the work of the Holy Spirit only, any good orthodox theologian would also tell you that the Pope has no more authority than a true believer, Hebrews tells us that every believer is a Priest and go straight to God without a mediator.

Your post made me realize, once again, that I greatly appreciate the visible church and some of the good fruit that has come from it, but I more deeply believe in the invisible church.

One reforms the Church only by suffering for her; one reforms the visible Church only by suffering for the invisible Church.

Speaking at Notre Dame, Miller said that in the 1960s, many of them joined in a concerted effort «to divorce the university's Catholic identity from any juridical bond with the visible Church.»

If liberalism was «the anti-dogmatic principle,» then liberals must take a low view of the foundation of dogma, the visible Church.

I think the visible Church is steadily crawling out on a limb that is not supported by Biblical truth, and when it snaps the fall and fall out will be great.

Seminary education must inculcate such critical abilities, inclinations, and knowledge of our tradition that students leave seminary listening to people — within the visible church and those outside it, especially the most alienated.

We had the first baptism of slave converts in the Velloor school; between fifty and sixty were present, and (from) the numerous candidates for baptism nineteen were admitted into the visible Church of Christ... Their hearty responses and decided, brief and pointed answers as to motives... -LCB- and -RCB- strictly consistent Christian conduct for many months past,... left no doubts on our minds that many of these, I hope all, were already members of the invisible Church of Christ.36

The ancient concept of the true church within the visible church seems irrefutable in the shadow of Rwanda's killing fields and the crematories of Auschwitz.

The traditional reply to this has been to make a distinction between the visible Church (the Church as a social institution) and the invisible Church (the community of those who have been restored to new life by faith in Jesus as Christ, whether they belong to the visible institution or not).

In words that are even more true today than when they were written 88 years ago, the editor declared that «it is not primarily members of the visible Church that are to be sought, but true disciples of CHRIST and servants of the most high God.»

St. Augustine defines a sacrament as the outward and visible sign of an inward and invisible grace; but he does not lose sight of the community of believers as the mediator of grace, nor should we, even though our doctrine of the relation of grace to the visible Church may declare considerably more freedom for the Holy Spirit than is the case in some traditions.

Walls attributes to this document the teaching that «the Mystical Body of Christ, which although the same entity as the visible Church in which it subsists is nonetheless to be distinguished from theChurch «constituted and organised as a society in the present world»».

If, on the other hand, it is «distinguished» from the «Mystical Body of Christ» how can the latter be «the same entity as the visible Church»?

If he thinks that the latter is «distinguished» from the «visible Church» what is the difference?

The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in which the pure Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.

This is basic to the relation of the kingdom to the church, but the goal extends far beyond the boundaries of the visible church.

This would require broad agreement on what ordination is and how it relates to the structures of the visible church.

I find an attempt to extend ordination and ministerial authority beyond the visible church in Wayne Grudem's statement for Christianity Today that «it is illogical to say a woman should train men to be Bible teachers and pastors when she shouldn't be one herself.

These organizations generally do not function as denominational entities within the evangelical world and thus, strictly speaking, are not the visible church.

Since para-church organizations fall outside of the visible church, there is a question as to whether women can teach or train men in ministry practices or in theological matters within those settings.

The link between ministerial authority and teaching authority also relates to an extension of the visible church beyond denominational boundaries within evangelical circles.

Because Protestantism as a whole defines the body of Christ as an invisible entity, this can create confusion over the relationship between the visible church and the invisible church.

«A key tenet of the Presbyterian Church is that baptism makes one part of «the visible church,»» wrote Judge Daman Cantrell.

The invisible church is made of all those granted the grace to believe whether they be in heaven or earth, whether they be in the visible church or not.

The visible church is made up of all those who profess faith in Christ.

That's not what Jesus intended when he founded one visible Church or when he prayed about the unity of the Church (John's Last Supper discourses) or what Paul envisioned when he spoke of agreeing on doctrine.

The experience hasn't killed my love of the church and I do feel naturally defensive when it is attacked, however, my idea of church has changed to a gathering where Jesus is present and Lord which the visible church may or may not represent in varying degrees.

They are what I would call the Diaspora... which literally means they are the seeds spread throughout the world... those living outside the visible church.