Sentences with phrase «world church bodies»

The PGI called for support from world church bodies and the United Nations, and declared that the attacks were intended to eradicate «the presence of Christians and the church...

Not exact matches

Just as at last summer's Lambeth conference (the decennial meeting of the world's Anglican bishops), there was a strongly expressed desire to grow closer together as a global communion, to become a genuine church marked by common confession and discernment, rather than a mere federation of autonomous local bodies.

It is not because they don't want to be members of Christ's church, but because they are members of Christ's church, the Body, and have found that Jesus wants them to serve the Body and love the world in ways that waste less time and money.

We are the church, the incarnation, the Temple of God, the body of Christ to the world.

Since the belief system of a parish includes not only its formal creeds but also the meanings it assigns to itself and its members as finite bodies, to learn about a church's world view — what it believes is really going on in life — one must listen to the church's stories about its own body and those of the members who constitute it.

Any exploration of congregational world view therefore requires attention to the way a church sees and deals with its individual members, its corporate body, and the wider world.

But if you don't champion the place of the arts within the Body of Christ, if you don't encourage young Christians to pursue the calling God has put on their hearts, if you don't train up your creative troops to stand and fight, then why on earth would you — would we — expect to see the Church being anything other than routed in the world of entertainment?

Rather, the setting of my story and the congregation's portrays my own body and that of the local church essentially in human terms, but my factual portrait of the world is darkly shaded by the tragic inevitability of God's inexorable plan.

No matter the style of evangelism, crusade, one on one, or whatever, non of it has much lasting value unless it points to a deeper relationship with Christ, and leads to a relationship with His body in this world, the church.

As we mature, we receive the fullness of the gifts of the Spirit in confirmation; these gifts ready us to bear witness to Christ in the world as full members of his body, the Church.

We have had theologies of liberation, of women's experience, of Judaism, of culture, of religion, of the body, of worship, of humor, of play, of work, of institutions, of the church, of the world, and so on, and so on.

God's vision for the church has always comprised a global body of believers proclaiming the gospel on every continent and in every corner of the world.

the blood of the martyrs fills the soil of our country from north to south and from east to west... many of the bodies are recovered and are broken between churches all over egypt and the rest of the world and by the way the movie was not made by Coptic Christians at least not orthodox anyway.

It's an extraordinary thing that Fuller has 100 denominations and 70 countries represented in its student body, so it's certainly the case that, being the president, you're trying to affect the church and serve the church in whatever ways Fuller can best do that in the U.S. and around the world.

It promises to move the ministry of the congregation out beyond the boundaries of the institution to the world Christ longs to contact through his body, the church.

The church affirmed an increasingly detailed body of authoritative Christian doctrine in which hope for the world to come had been subtly transferred to a distant future, to be reached only after death and resurrection.

God blessed Dad with a deep Catholic faith — the conviction that Christ's presence and power continue in the world today through his Body, the Church.

«The way in which Jesus now exercises his rule in the world [is] through the church, which is his Body» (p. 217).

What you never address is not so much the corruption but the cover ups of crimes and protection of criminals all around the world that leads to the highest leaders of the church, the RCC ad a body is an accessory before and after the fact.

We can not build up the Body by acclimating the churches to the world.

The Church is the actual body of Christ within the world we live.

A pulling away on the left by large segments of the evangelical world would likely result in a merging of those segments with a conservative Protestant mainstream in a way that would have a major impact on the shape and internal politics of a number of church bodies.

Beautiful buildings in which to worship are not meant as gifts to the world but as offerings to God; offering not the mediocre but only the best, it is a material offering, just as we try to offer the best body (which is called by Him His temple) to Him, the difference being that He builds up in us the best temple in which to reside, Could more people have been fed with the money spent on building a church or a cathedral; maybe.

There is hardly any other so well organized and so widespread a body as the Catholic Church in the whole world.

One can celebrate it provincially, as the United Methodist church and small Methodist bodies are free to do just as Lutheran churches celebrated Martin Luther last year — even though both Luther and John Wesley, Methodism's founder, belong to a larger world.

If members do not learn what it means to belong to «the Body of Christ» through service to one another, they will have little inclination to see or believe that the church is called to serve the world.

Now the dualistic sin of the Christian church, its original heresy, is that of resurrecting Jesus into the heavens with God in glory and the designation of the church as Christ's mystical body on earth.15 In actuality this doctrinal pronouncement represents a reversal of God's kenotic movement into humanity in Christ's flesh and in his death, for contrary to the spirit of kenotic incarnation, the church has become ever more sacredly apart from the profane, and the resurrected Savior ever more transcendent of the world.

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 we ask: by what is it manifest, by what is it promised with historical clarity and in created, objective form (and not only in the never absolutely certain testimony to grace of the mind in the depth of conscience) to the world of all ages, that it stands under the mercy and not under the judgment of God, the only answer can be: solely through Christ and his Body which is the Church.

It is also one of the fastest - growing Lutheran church bodies in the world; in 2016, they counted about 4 million members, and they are opening a new congregation every week.

And at yet another point, we are told that, although evangelicals can not accept all of what process theists mean when they say that the world is «God's body», there is a «striking parallel» between the process concept of «God's self - embodiment in a redeemed world» and «the biblical image of the church as the «Body of Christ»» (1body», there is a «striking parallel» between the process concept of «God's self - embodiment in a redeemed world» and «the biblical image of the church as the «Body of Christ»» (1Body of Christ»» (111).

However, as the church, we are the Body of Christ, and just as He suffered as He went about His ministry, so also we will suffer as we follow the ways of Jesus in this world (John 15:19 - 20).

As the presence of Christ in this world, then, can the church — his body — strive for an existence alien to the way of its incarnate Lord?

The concept of the church as the body of Christ in the whole world is another growing development for me.

It just saddens me that you seem to have gotten sidetracked in a vain quest to «change the world» thru planting «churches» that are not in fact churches --- at least not if you still accept the authority of the scriptures and it's definition of what constitutes the Body of Christ, both universally and locally.

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.

For those of us who follow Jesus, those of us who are his body, this is «being the church» in our world.

The mission statement of the church is to make the world a Eucharist: the gathering of people as one body, opening lives to repentance and forgiveness, proclaiming the truth of God's story, the sharing of food and the washing of feet.

The Body of Christ being released into the wilderness — amongst the darkness and danger and wolves of the world — with no «church» building to retreat to on Sunday, no «Pastor» to listen to week after week, no tribe to look for answers in tradition and no tax motivation or direction on where to give money?

As the Body of Christ in the world, each generation in the church has the potential to learn anew what it means to live in love of God and neighbor.

In 1956, the Joint Committee presented, to both organizations, a statement tracing the history of the association of the two bodies and offering the Committee» s conviction that the time had come for the World Council of Churches and International Missionary Council to consider afresh the possibility of integrating the two Councils.18 In the same year, the Joint Committee prepared a draft plan of integration, with a booklet entitled: Why Integration 2, to be presented to the World Council of Churches Central Committee Meeting in 1957 and the Ghana Assembly of the International Missionary Council in 1957 - 58.

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Similarly the world believes in Jesus Christ when the Christians become true Christians, the church the authentic body of Christ.

Maritain does not believe that Christianity exists in the world solely as the Church or the body of believers.

The Christian church of the early second century lived in this world, and knew that an «organic» body of Christ demanded some kind of organizing.

Mission points to the event of communion which God offers to the world as the Body of Christ, the Church, that is a community in history which reflects the life of God as communion.47

What is guaranteed is the Church as the Body of Christ, one as He is one, filled with His Spirit, belonging to Him, knit together in a community which is truly Catholic, possessing the Apostolic Gospel, and sent into the world to preach it and to live it.

The sense of «churchly appurtenance,» in von Hügel's phase, is something we must cultivate these days, to help our people recognize that in and through the parish of St. Vitus, Smithville, the very glory of the mystical Body of Christ shines forth, «the holy Church throughout all the world» is reflected, and Christ is present still as we offer ourselves, m union with His perfect Sacrifice, in the eucharistic memorial of the passion and death of our Head.

We shall see presently the place of our Lord Jesus Christ in this whole context, the utter necessity of the Church as the mystical Body of Christ, and the inescapable reality of «the resurrection of the body, and the life of the world to come.&raBody of Christ, and the inescapable reality of «the resurrection of the body, and the life of the world to come.&rabody, and the life of the world to come.»

But, continuing with the thought of God's self - embodiment in a redeemed world, do we not find a striking parallel with the biblical image of the church as the «Body of Christ» (I Cor.