Sentences with phrase «with poor»

You understand slavery as horrible, oprresion of a different race, pulled from a different country with a poor quality of life.

It is out of this way of looking at the world that one makes the «first act» of Christian living, as Gutiérrez calls it: commitment to and with the poor.

One must, therefore, side with the poor and the oppressed, a theme Gutiérrez has been affirming and living for many years.

They're afraid to go to the inner city and mingle with the poor, the bikers, the gangs.

It may sound insulting already being a Catholic but I know for myself I grew up with a poor understanding of our faith and this book is a good start at explaining all our beliefs we don't completely understand.

Luke's treatment of the Beatitudes takes on the aspect of a covenant with the poor.

So I might as well start acting like it — with my friends, with my enemies, with Rob Bell, with John Piper, with Republicans, with Democrats, with pacifists, with soldiers, with gays and lesbians, with Westboro Baptist Church, with the poor, with the rich, with the Japanese who lost everything on Friday and, as hard as it is, with the red - faced evangelists who say they deserved it.

In addition to finding ways to build relationships with the poor, we are building relationships with the homeless and finding small ways in which we can help them.

Sid Prejean: you need spell check... badly... before you come at me with your poor literacy skills, read what you write.

The rich were called on by the church to share with the poor, but this was at best ameliorative.

Inasmuch as God is God together with the poor Jesus, the poor have become inescapable for us.

The church must be involved daily with the poor, Wallis believes, for the Christian community is called Biblically to look at the systems of the world through the eyes of their victims.

He would not have bothered with poor people who didn't buy their own health insurance.

It manipulates the whimsy of fan - boy power that Jared Hess explicated in his fine but critically reviled Gentlemen Bronchos (a comedy about young, would - be sci - fi novelists) and that David Gordon Green's 2000 George Washington, with its poor Southern boy wearing an old football helmet, basketball jersey, and kitchen - curtain - cape made poignant.

This last point has great significance for the strategy of pastoral work with the poor.

In his important article entitled «Role - Playing and the Lower SocioEconomic Group» Riessman gives several examples of the successful employment of role - playing in working with the poor.

Even at the Lord's Supper people gathered in little cliques and the rich did not share with the poor (11:17 - 22).

Dealing with the poor, the powerless, and the oppressed was not an excuse for charity, it was a call to live a life of justice and compassion, of generosity and hospitality.

And they have recognized (c) the need to be in daily involvement with the poor, believing that the church's orientation within society must be informed by the powerless and dispossessed.

In Jesus» acts of solidarity with the poor and lowly, God acts.

His solidarity with the poor, his passionate global peacemaking, and his simplicity appeal to a universal audience.

(Howard Clinebell, Basic Types of Pastoral Counseling, pp. 189 - 205, 222 - 43; William Glasser, Reality Therapy (New York: Harper, 1965) Perry London, The Modes and Morale of Psychotherapy [New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1964]-RRB- Any program of individual and small - group counseling with the poor should attempt to minimize red tape, needless professionalization, and other types of structural frustrations often accompanying more standard services — frustrations such as complex and frightening diagnostic interviews, excessive use of referrals, and delays in the availability of the sought - for service.

One of these has to do with the poor.

For Wallis's ultimate rejection of a Realpolitik (working within the corrupt «political» system to effectively garner power for human ends) is based on his understanding of Jesus» servanthood (identifying with the poor and oppressed, but rejecting all solutions based on political power).

Mission is making solidarity with poor people in their flight for justice.

The US is supposed to promote capitalism that allows everyone the right to make money — only it really doesn't because it does not allow people with poor upbringing to obtain the knowledge and privilege that it takes to get a good money - making idea going.

The Church will always stand with the poor.

Jesus identified himself with the poor and the marginalized and all Christians have a responsibility to them.

In other words, their religious appearance notwithstanding, these people hoarded resources and didn't share with the poor.

Therefore while the criticism of modernity with respect to its idea of history is valid, the answer has to emphasize the fulfillment of the meaning of history in suffering service, solidarity with the poor and forgiving love.

What about the foreign mission field or a local Christian community, living in solidarity with the poor and dispossessed?

This is because the growth of the welfare state, as author Robert Reich notes, has little to do with the poor.

Because God has identified himself with the poor, so too the community of faith is called to special concern for these persons.

Another thing we are doing this year is getting involved with the poor and needy in our area.

Jesus often associated himself with the poor and with society's outcasts and was criticized for it (Matt.

From the very beginning Jesus identifies his ministry with the poor and the oppressed.

I believe we've got to stop protecting volunteers from interacting with the poor.

13:16), but perhaps the clearest statement of the continuing need for the community of faith to identify itself with the poor, even as has God, is to be found in James 2:1 - 7.

What's more important are the relationships they build with the poor and what they learn about why people are poor.

Jesus makes clear that he is identified with the poor and the needy to the extent that acceptance of him is equated with ministering to their needs.

Students who started with a poor high school background or little previous church involvement could still excel if they applied themselves, and they often did.

And noted the Methodist pastor who's teaching her Nashville suburban newcomers how to be Methodist: «The bishops» initiative two years ago was on ministry with the poor and marginalized.

Catholic News Agency: Priest takes food stamp challenge in solidarity with poor The head of Catholic Charities in D.C. recently experienced the struggle of low - income families relying on food stamps, noting that Christian charity lends vital support to those in need.

One of the greatest problems for environmentalists is the tendency to juxtapose them to those who identify with the poor and the oppressed.

Will million dollar properties somehow bring the Kingdom of God to earth, or might sharing our goods with the poor better accomplish that goal?

The first is the injunction to efficiency in administration, lest administration be wrongly equated with poor administration.

I guess all these pure and selfless, giving and caring share with poor whatever little they have, you all I believe have right to throw a stone or write your words of anger at this man because you are always selfless and giving and sharing.

Such movement is obviously out of step with the broader church interest in discovering and defining a ministry to and with the poor.

On the basis of my working with poor people over many years and of my study of the relevant literature, I believe that «consumption» is a better indicator of poverty than «income,» much of which is unreported, and undetectable except as evidenced in consumption.

He was touched by the voice of the bishops, especially Dom Helder Câmara, who called on the council to show more solidarity with the poor.