Sentences with phrase «which members of the body»

Leprosy, a skin disease, during the last stages of which members of the body rot away, was considered a communicable disease in ancient society.

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The Nebraska Public Service Commission, a five - member regulatory body, voted 3 - 2 in favor of the project, which would give TransCanada permission to build the pipeline through the state.

In a notable counterpoint to this narrative, FINMA, a financial regulatory body serving Switzerland (not a G20 member), issued guidelines in February that described four different genres of cryptocurrencies: payment tokens, utility tokens, asset tokens, and hybrid tokens, which bear characteristics of several token types.

CryptoUK, a self - regulatory body set up to represent the sector, which is made up of eight members, -LSB-...]

«On an issue on which the whole body of believers finds so many unresolvable questions, I find it unacceptable to force a large number of our members to face this dilemma.»

Morals aren't decided by the members of the church, which is the mystical body of Christ that you are correct in stating but wrong in stating «too bad you never learned about.».

This is so in spite of a system of representation, in which delegates from the constituent bodies choose the committee members who select the officers and department heads at each level.

We are made members of the Body of Christ through receiving three sacraments - Baptism, Confirmation, which we receive only once, and the Holy Eucharist which is Christ Himself.

«The Eucharist is the heart and the summit of the Church's life, for in it Christ associates his Church and all her members with his sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving offered once for all on the cross to his Father; by this sacrifice he pours out the graces of salvation on his Body which is the Church.»

Further, the transmission within the body is one which introduces increased emphasis from occasion to occasion as the experience rises to the level of the final percipient, which we maintain need not be a member of the dominant nexus.

In and through this experience, which becomes the illuminating event of our total everyday life, one finds himself in a great company, the Church: a member of a body that lives in the Christ - happening, dwells in this Word of the Lordship of Christ.

However the members contemplate, heal, discipline, develop, pity, and finally commit their personal bodies is likely to coincide with the ways they understand and act on the corporate body of which they are a part.

The way in which members of a congregation reproduce the love of God through genuine hospitality and a love for one another will indicate whether they are indeed the body of Christ or simply a religious club.

Is it funded by the United Fund or the Government or a body which holds member agencies accountable for accepted standards of practice?

Group counseling can become one means by which the pastor fulfills his essential function «to equip God's people for work in his service» (Ephesians 4:11 - 12, NEB), and through which laymen perform their priesthood as members of the Body of Christ.

For the whole Church, which consists of all the faithful, since all the faithful are members of Christ, hath that Head set in Heaven, and it governeth His body.

Rom 7:22 For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man, Rom 7:23 but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members.

Rom 7:5 For while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the Law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

Would not this «body» have a nonsocial nexus of its own, that is intense living occasions which might support «a thread of personal order along some historical route of its members» (PR 163)?

The members of the living nonsocial nexus which is at the base of personality must inherit some of their data from bodily structures.6 We must either discover a new body to support this nonsocial nexus, or we must dispense with it as the basis of person.

Not only were these churches leveling off from the heady gains of the postwar revival era (the main Presbyterian bodies from 1940 to 1960 had gained adherents at more than twice the rate of the preceding 20 years), but just as important, even more than before they were «losing» members and potential members because the regions in which they were strongest were «losing» population.

But in the mystical body of the Church, the surplus humanity that Christ finds in each of the members of this his body is called upon, insofar as each is a part of the whole, to participate in the work of this body, which is the redemption continued throughout time.

If that's the body of Christ of which we are a member, then we have to share the joy and the pain of fellow members.

In this sense, then, Jesus Christ himself is remembered by God; and those who are «in Christ», as members of his Body or as branches of the Vine which he is, are also remembered.

Or, defined in still older terms, justice accords to each member of the body that which is his or her due.

John Winthrop joined in a declaration which called the Established Church of England «our dear Mother» and referred to the Puritans as «members of the same Body.»

But it is worthwhile to recall that within the first generation it was possible for Paul not only to describe the «breaking of bread» at the fellowship meal of Christians as «sharing in the body of Christ,» 24 but to pass on from that to the idea that the church (the new Israel as it emerged in history) is itself the «body of Christ,» each member of which is «in Christ,» as Christ is «in him.»

«A religious body,» he says, «is a stable institution with a heritage which it cherishes, a government which gives organized expression to its faith, and a body of members whose duties and values are generally recognized.»

Just for your information, the Episcopal Church is a member in full communion with the 80 million member Anglican Communion, which regardless of differences over social issues among its churches is still the THIRD largest body of Christians in the WORLD after Roman Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity.

As the first member of the body of Christ, Peter is the rock or foundation for the building up of the church, the cell to which all other cells are attached in the growth of that body.

Likewise as members of the body of Christ, humans may be achieving aims which far transcend human imagination.

In its statement, the conference said, «the nature of the unity towards which we are striving is that of a visible fellowship in which all members, acknowledging Jesus Christ as living Lord and Savior, shall recognize each other as belonging fully to His Body, to the end that the world may believe».

The disabled are treated as the weak to be served, rather than as fully committed, integral members of the Body of Christ and the human family; the specific contribution which they have to give is ignored....

Here in communion with the brethren we come nearest to the Resurrection Body of Christ; and so Paul writes in the following Chapter 11 (a passage which has received far too little consideration) if this Lord's Supper were partaken of by all members of the community in a completely worthy manner, then the union with Jesus» Resurrection Body would be so effective in our own bodies that even now there would be no more sickness or death (1 Corinthians 1 1:28 - 30) a singularly bold assertion.

And now we come to that rediscovered doctrine of our day: the mystical Body of Christ in which we, by Baptism, are incorporate so that «in Christ» we live divinely human lives, as members of the order of supernatural charity which permeates and penetrates this order of relative justice which we call the secular world.

Also members of one body of which Christ is the head (Eph.

They are like a unified body in which, if one member suffers, the rest of the body also suffers.»

He would provide a profile of the early Church which was «a religious communion claiming a divine commission, and holding all other religious bodies around it heretical or infidel, a sort of secret society binding its members together by influence and engagement, spread over the whole world, a natural enemy to governments, intolerant and capable of dividing families and breaking laws.

However, with respect to the first of those issues, I find fascinating the British idea of «virtual representation,» which meant that so long as Parliament was a mixed deliberative body of persons that represented a variety of interests and opinions, then representation was real and valid even though citizens could not vote for members of Parliament.

First there is the offering, which the Church can perform only as it is identified in faith and obedience with the Lord who in the deepest understanding of the Eucharist is himself the One who offers; then there is the receiving, as the members of Christ's Body are incorporated anew into their Lord and are fed with «the bread that cometh down from heaven,» even with Christ himself.

As a body is an organism made up of many members, and it is held together by one soul, so, in my opinion, the whole world is a kind of huge and immense living creature which is united by one soul, namely the power and reason of God.

Possibly we are experiencing a renewed awareness of the nature of the church as a ministering institution, a body which ministers to the needs of the world through all its members.

(Ephesians 4:1 - 7, 3:16) On the other side, when a member of the Church has to suffer for the good cause, he can say «I am making up what is lacking of Christ's sufferings on behalf of His body, which is the Church».

Urbanization has called forth two types of reaction in Protestantism: first, the church and the ministry have devised numerous means of reaching out to all kinds of people and groups in the cities; and second, attempts have been made to strengthen the inner fellowship of the local church, to bring about a genuine community in which each individual has a sense of being a member of the one body.

Each new occasion in our body feels, as part of its past, occasions which are members of the society of occasions which constitute the mind of human being.

The New Testament spoke of the church as one body of which we are all members.

This mundane political usage was mirrored by the Christian community which began to signify ecclesiastical dignitaries by the term, and then also all those Christians with standing in the community of the Church, and finally, all individual members of the Mystical Body of Christ.

It is much easier to be another voluntary organization of open - minded people than to be the Body of Christ in which members assume responsibility for one another's faith and morals.

22 For I joyfully concur with the law of God in the inner man, 23 but I see a different law in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin which is in my members.

It was his as the true gospel because he was himself a man «in Christ» — and that phrase signified for him, as his letters make abundantly clear, that he was, and knew himself to be, what the Book of Common Prayer calls — in another phrase which yet is remarkably Pauline in expression — «a very member incorporate in the mystical Body of Christ, which is the blessed company of all faithful people.»