Sentences with phrase «whole purpose of church»

So the whole purpose of church is simply to read the Bible?

These and other less central activities of the ministry of all periods are carried on by the pastoral director, but the work that lays the greatest claim to his time and thought is the care of a church, the administration of a community that is directed toward the whole purpose of the Church, namely, the increase among men of the love of God and neighbor; for the Church is becoming the minister and its «minister» is its servant, directing it in its service.

Not exact matches

Or as the Second Vatican Council put it: «The Church believes that the key, the centre and the purpose of the whole of human history is to be found in its Lord and Master... who is the same yesterday, and today, and forever.»

In terms of God's concern for the world, the Church is a segment of the World, a postscript, that is, added to the world for the purpose of pointing to and celebrating both Christ's presence and God's ultimate redemption of the whole world.

The church is holy, therefore, when it resists the technologization of life and the reduction of the human beings to inefficient and bothersome machines whose purpose — the whole six billion of us — is in extreme doubt.

The Constitution on the Church in the Modern World of the Second Vatican Council Gaudium et Spes sums up the perspective with the arresting statement: «The Church believes that the key, the centre and the purpose of the whole of man's history is to be found in its Lord and Master».

Holistic life connections is not about starting or tweaking any church program or ministry, but rather abandoning the whole sinking ship, and joining with community groups that already exist, not as a way to support and prop up «the church,» but for the purpose of being the church.

[36] He refers to the study document prepared for the fourth assembly of the WCC in Uppsala in 1968 by Paul Löffler entitled Conversion to God and Service to Man, where Löffler wrote»... conversion and baptism, while linked with the entry into the church, do not serve its interests but the larger purpose of God for the whole creation.»

The whole movement back to a commitment to the church started to make more sense when I reread Erik Erikson's discussion of identity as being tied to the discovery of an ideology, a belief system, which gives one a transcendent fix on the meaning and purpose for existence.

The RE syllabus is too often dictated by the needs of public examinations, but even within this some fine work could be done, and the Faith communicated for what it is: essential knowledge, rich and deep, that opens wide the whole of life's meaning and purpose and sets it in the context of centuries of God's revelation and 2,000 years of Church history that is thrilling to discover.

Pope Francis poses an appropriate challenge to liturgical traditionalists, to reflect on the purpose of the liturgy and the whole nature of the Church.