Sentences with phrase «world as followers»

But I've also got a nagging feeling that something isn't right, that even if homosexuality is a sin, Christians haven't been handling it the way they should... and if it isn't a sin, then we've forever damaged our ability to minister in the world as followers of Christ.

Not exact matches

Until the perfect role crops up, her 760,000 followers watch as she travels the world — usually with her boyfriend, who also has a big following — sharing stunning snaps of destinations like Santorini and the Taj Mahal.

Even as singer Justin Timberlake completed his 20/20 Experience World Tour in the final weeks of 2014, he still found time to regularly tweet about his tequila brand to his nearly 40 million Twitter followers.

And the pied piper found more followers, so the naysayers said, as an ever - increasing number of people around the world — in fact, some of the very smartest — started opened their doors to take bitcoin in.

Those posts became my first book, 101 Reasons to Own the World's Greatest Investment: Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, which launched my career as a Buffett follower.

Unless world - wide Islam leeaders don't appologise to the world and the shut down their extremists internally America will never accept this religion and its followers as peace loving.

If the real god really loves us as its cult followers always preach that it does, wouldn't it spare us all this pain and torment by letting the world's population know that it is the ONLY god?

While the statement made about government welfare during the time of Christ has some merit, I believe that Republicans should take a good look at themselves and ask are they doing anything to stop poverty around the world, as I believe Christ would want his followers to do.

Stop The Traffik campaign is a reminder to us not only of our calling as followers of Christ to participate in bringing transformational structural change to our world, but also what could be a defining moment of inspiration for the church.

But just as Sabbath was created to help the Hebrew people fulfill their mission and purpose in the world, so also, church was created to help followers of Jesus fulfill our mission and purpose in the world.

In this episode of the One Verse Podcast, we see that as followers of Jesus, we should not be condemning the environmentalists, but should actually be leading the way in showing this world how to take care of this earth.

«Motivated in large part by their religious traditions of protecting the vulnerable and serving «the least of these,» as Jesus instructed his followers to do in the Gospel of Matthew,» writes Eric Marrapodi, «World Relief and other Christian agencies like the Salvation Army are stepping up efforts and working with law enforcement to stem the flow of human trafficking, which includes sex trafficking and labor trafficking.»

I am reaching out to you as a follower of Jesus, passionate about sharing what Jesus is doing around the world.

Instead, if we understand the culture in which John wrote, the issues that the early church was facing under the Roman Empire, and all of the hundreds of allusions to Old Testament themes and prophetic expectations, the Book of Revelation can have a significant message for followers of Jesus today, who also deal with similar cultural issues as we try to live like Jesus in a world dominated by powers and authority that live in rebellion to the Kingdom of God.

However, the power of the Kingdom is inseparable from the «end» which it is bringing to the world, and, as Albert Schweitzer has so powerfully insisted, the new life of ethical obedience to which Jesus calls his followers is likewise inseparable from the liberation of the believer from the very reality of the world.

Indeed, as a follower of Christ, and as one whose life is aligned with the purpose of God, he is inevitably involved in the life of this world.

Allegiance — As followers of Christ, our first allegiance is to the Kingdom of God, not to any kingdoms of this world.

The method used in the writing of this book is the same as that used in the preparation of the two previous volumes — The Religion of the Hindus and The Path of the Buddha — which I have edited in an attempt to present to Western readers the major religions of the world from the point of view of the followers of those faiths.

It doesn't change the message he left behind of love and forgiveness, there have been many great wise men throughout the world and history not all of them were perfect and Jesus lived as a man among us I am sure he made mistakes and learned what was important to teach his followers what really mattered.

Nevertheless, as if with tongue in cheek, Jesus tells his followers that the «sons of this world are wiser in their own generation than the sons of light» (Luke 16:8) and suggests that as they go out into a wolflike world, they be «wise as serpents and innocent as doves» (Matt.

And Yahweh is jewish terminology is the same now that mean Allah and Yahweh are the same being but christian god is unknown I don't know what he is, And Muhammad in the Qur» an is the last of all Prophets and Messengers and is known as Rehmat ul alimeen the mercy of the world he forgive his most bitterest enemies who tortured him and his followers for believing in one true God.Now Muhammad never try to fake a miracle, the pig is forbidden to eat even in the jewish testament and so even here bible agrees but I don't know why christians eat pork.Secondly wine was forbidden because Muhammad's companions saw the evil in it.So please don't speak without having proper knowledge or Blurting out made up stories that actually have no sense, the jews call Jesus the false prophet, Sorcerer, Necromancer etc would you beieve those stories or be angry.Surely we both know the answer

As followers of Jesus, we can enjoy America and the Constitution and all that comes with being a citizen (that's another conversation), but our primary allegiance is not to a nation; our goal is not to persuade the world of the American way of life.

Christianity is, through and through, a historical religion, and except for the coming of Jesus Christ into the world, his life, his teachings, his death and resurrection, and the establishment of the Church as the community of his followers, we should have neither Christianity nor New Testament.

«Just as the presence of the Holy One among the Israelites was to permeate every aspect of their lives, so now,» after Christ's redemption of the world, «this is how it is to be throughout the creation, as groups of followers live the life of the kingdom in their particular places,» writes Bartholomew.

As a follower of Jesus, however, I do need to heed his words to love the people in my world, my «neighbors» — Not just the people on my block, but everyone I come in contact with — with his love.

As a follower of Jesus Christ, we are to live on a whole different plane than the rest of the world.

These are some hard teachings, but as followers of Jesus Christ, our behavior and conduct in this world must be radically different.

R. Murray describes them as «homeless followers of the homeless Jesus on... ceaseless pilgrimage through the world.»

When the world did not end as Jesus himself had said it would, his followers stopped expecting so much from God or from themselves.

This approach betrays the Christ who taught his followers to go into the world as sheep among wolves to bless rather than to dominate.

I am not bashing Muslims in any way, but I rather be respected as who I am, a believer and a follower of Christ Jesus, the Son of God, Savior of the world and Redeemer of all sinners.

Until then we can consider 9/11 as a day of rememberance of political Islam (cheered by many of its followers across the world).

As I said earlier, I am not bashing Muslims in any way, but I rather be respected as who I am, a believer and a follower of Christ Jesus, the Son of God, Savior of the world and Redeemer of all sinnerAs I said earlier, I am not bashing Muslims in any way, but I rather be respected as who I am, a believer and a follower of Christ Jesus, the Son of God, Savior of the world and Redeemer of all sinneras who I am, a believer and a follower of Christ Jesus, the Son of God, Savior of the world and Redeemer of all sinners.

Over two billion christians in the world doesn't sound like something that is dying, my friend... as someone noted earlier, people have been trying to destroy true followers of God for thousands of years but He has promised to always protect His elect

A Christian who is refreshing to be around and a Christian who is fired up is a follower of Jesus know knows they don't have it all together, who knows that they aren't perfect, and who knows that there is nothing better than hanging out with Jesus as He leads us into the world.

To begin with, our lives as Christ - followers often look no different from the system of the world.

As a Catholic, I grow more angry every day about these church leaders who are so stuck in a distorted world view that they alienate followers, and in extreme cases, irreparably harm them.

The pope also proclaimed September 7 a day of prayer and fasting for Syrian peace, and invited the world's 1.5 billion Catholics, as well as other Christians, followers of different religions and «all men of goodwill» to join him.

When we think of all that has come from him in the impulse toward human freedom and dignity — the challenge of ignorance and the attempt to remedy it, the concern for and conquest of disease, the sensitivity to the needs and plight of the weak, destitute, helpless, and those in every kind of suffering, the stabilizing of the inner lives of millions of his followers around the world, and the fostering of a prophetic attack on such giant social evils as prejudice, injustice, and war — when we consider the things that have stemmed from this «penniless teacher of Nazareth,» we are dull indeed if the wonder of it does not sweep over our souls.

John does, after all, preaching that the old way is dead, and the promised Messiah is coming who will usher in a new era of peace for the entire world, and that those who want to participate in this new era must show it by going through the waters of baptism, much as the followers of Ea would have done 3000 years earlier.

As one of the oldest and most widely dispersed peoples of the world, Turks were followers of many religions before they finally adopted Islam forever.

The story of Jesus, he writes, is «the story of God's kingdom being launched on earth as it is in heaven, generating a new state of affairs in which the power of evil has been decisively defeated, the new creation has been decisively launched, and Jesus» followers have been commissioned and equipped to put that victory and that inaugurated new world into practice.»

DOOMS day believers are the followers of Talibaan / Alqaeda as they also idiotically want to destroy this world.

Therefore, among the central identifying characteristics of the followers of Jesus would be involvement in the struggle effectively to bring about the Kingdom of God, «on earth as it is in heaven,» where freedom, fellowship, justice, responsible love reign and where people live as brothers / sisters, equitably sharing the resources of God's creation and being accountable for their own human future and that of the created world.

Personally as a follower of Chabad philosophy, we believe that the world appears aged so that G - d can reward us for the choices we make.

In Jesus time when he fled Herod with his parents, the largest group of Jews where he possibly fled to, were located in Alexandria, a place where 300 years earlier Alexander, who conquered as far as India and tried to have his subjects learn about and understand each other... had followers that built the great library of Alexandria, holding much of the knowledge of the ancient world.

Along with Kant's most conservative followers, Royce argued that the existence of mental categories shows that the material substance of the world must be ruled over by an Absolute Mind, which is fully as active and independent in its universal sphere as human minds are in theirs.

In his strength, then, they are to go over the world winning converts, teaching these new followers even as he taught them, baptizing them in his name and in the name of God and the Holy Spirit, and promising them that he will be with them always to the end of the world.

This is partly what Jesus did for us 2000 years ago, and is also what we today as followers of Jesus are to do for the rest of the world.

So far, Boyd's book has been a profound reminder to me of how the kingdom of heaven should stand in direct contrast to the kingdoms of the world, as followers of Christ choose servanthood over power, healing over violence, giving over taking.