In this story Jesus paints a picture of two sons, one who is rebellious and one who is legalistic. ... In this way Christ teaches that a necessary part of repentance is recognizing the need to repent. ... Whether this manifests itself in a verbal confession to other believers or a personal confession to Christ, repentance cannot occur without first coming to know oneself as a sinner, estranged from God. ... Richard Foster (1998) explains that when believers confess their sins to one another they catalyze healing and remind each other of the forgiveness that exists in Christ (p. 146). ... Furth...

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Peter San Angelo March 25, 2002 Quiz # 2, Question 2 How does Christ Act as a mediator in the Sacrament of Reconciliation? In the Sacrament of reconciliation, Christ acts as a mediator. Throughout this paper I am going to explain how Christ does this. ... Christ acts as a mediator through the Sacrament of Reconciliation, which is through Mankind's refusal of God's will. ... If we repent our sins can be forgiven, and thus at the same time we are mediated through Jesus Christ. ...

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Philosophy of Missions "Then Jesus said to them: All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. ... I believe that the goal of Missions should be to help lost souls find salvation from Jesus Christ. ... In order to do missions the way Christ wants, missionaries must be willing, have patience, and be pure. ... God blesses those who are willing to give up themselves to share Christ with others. ... " Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we can ask or imagine according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ J...

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Although many centuries have passed since the execution of Jesus Christ, Christians continue to believe that Jesus died on the cross to save all from sin and that His blood washes away the sins of all those who truly wish to be saved. ... Christians must truly believe in Jesus Christ, that He was the only son of God and that he was born of the Virgin Mary. ... Above all, Christians attain salvation by believing that Jesus Christ arose from the dead, therefore proving the fact that eternal life of the soul does exist. ... By calling upon the name of the Lord, confessing that one is a sinner, an...

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Before Christ's ascension, He promised His followers He would be with His people until the end of time. ... At the Last Supper as Jesus said, "this is my body... However, the Church teaches that, "the underlying reality of the bread was [transfigured]", into His true body and blood as Jesus made that declaration" (CCC 1376). ... This being the case, the body of Christ is the substance and the Hosts are the accidents. ... The Church teaches that even though the accidents of the bread and wine remain the same, the Eucharist really is the body of Christ and that the presence of Christ is sac...

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In Matthew 19:16-22, the rich man asks Jesus what he needs to do to have eternal life. ... When Jesus asks to stay at his house, people say Jesus is staying at the house of a sinner. ... "So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree in order to see Jesus, who was about to pass that way. ... Now those who belong to Christ (Jesus) have crucified their flesh with its passions and desires. ... A friend of mine committed herself to Christ and the next day you could notice a complete change in the way she acted. ...

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The Council of Chalcedon clearly rejected and cursed both schools – one that said that Jesus had only one divine nature and other school that said Christ was a mixture of two natures. The Chalcedonian Definition confirmed that Jesus Christ is "the same perfect in Godhead and also perfect in manhood; truly God and truly man". ... Jesus Christ was acknowledged with two natures "in confusedly, unchangeably, indivisibly, and inseparably." The two natures – the divine and the human are distinct and yet these are united in the one person – Jesus Christ. ... It affirm...

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Christ says in Mark 10:42-43, "But Jesus called them to himself and said to them, "You know that those who are considered rulers over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. ... They use as their model the centurion whose servant Jesus healed in Luke 7:1-10. ... Mark 10:42-45 gives the meaning of what Jesus means by servant leadership. ... Mark 1:17 says, "Then Jesus said to them, "Follow Me, and I will make you become fishers of men" (Nelson). ... Christ answered in Matthew 22:37-40, "Jesus said to him, ""You shall love the Lord your God with all ...

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Hazel Motes" first step toward salvation is the rejection Jesus Christ and sin. ... It is by stating that Jesus was a liar, and that there was no fall, no redemption and no judgement, that Hazel reassures his own disbelief in sin itself and justifies his future "what-would-be-sinful" actions. These actions are also reassurance and proof to Hazel of his belief in The Church without Christ. ... He is on his way to Atlanta to continue preaching The Church without Christ when he is pulled over by a highway patrolman who destroys the Essex. ... It is through these actions of rejecting of Jesus, se...

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Some Egyptian Christians, however, refused to follow the decrees of the Council of Chalcedon (451), which defined the person of Jesus Christ as being "one in two natures-. The doctrine of "two natures- appeared to them to imply the existence of two Christs, divine and human, and was therefore tainted with Nestorianism. ... The Roman Catholic church regards itself as the only legitimate inheritor, by an unbroken episcopal succession descending from St Peter to the present time, of the commission and powers granted by Jesus Christ on the 12 apostles (See Apostle). ... The Roman Catholic church r...

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Written in the Hebrew language, the Old Testament explains the covenant agreement God made with man about his salvation before Christ came. ... This is appropriate because the New Testament explains the finished work of Christ on the cross, the end of sin's power over believers in Jesus and the end of Satan's control over death, hell and the grave. ... The New Testament ends with Jesus on his throne and is a revelation of His glory. ... Christ, as the Lamb of God, was the fulfillment of the events portrayed in the feasts and festivals. ... Jesus said, "In the volume of the book it i...

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Written in the Hebrew language, the Old Testament explains the covenant agreement God made with man about his salvation before Christ came. ... This is appropriate because the New Testament explains the finished work of Christ on the cross, the end of sin's power over believers in Jesus and the end of Satan's control over death, hell and the grave. ... The New Testament ends with Jesus on his throne and is a revelation of His glory. ... Christ, as the Lamb of God, was the fulfillment of the events portrayed in the feasts and festivals. ... Jesus said, "In the volume of the book it i...

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The Crucifixion of Christ is the culminating event of thousands of years of prophecy and over thirty years of the life and teachings of our Messiah Jesus Christ. ... The people of the "world" rationalize this way; they look at Christ as merely a prophet, and therefore their view of The Last Supper and the crucifixion is a bitter and doleful event that needlessly ended the life of a great man. ... The people of the church, however, look at the prophecy and look at the teachings of the Son of God, and rejoice in the forgiveness of sins bought with the Blood of Christ, even though it meant His ...

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Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized. ... These are some of the ways Christians have wished to be identified with Christ; 1. ... Holy Communion being the blood of Jesus meant to cleanse away one's sins. 3. ... This is done just as Jesus commissioned his disciples in Matthew 28:19-20. ... It is also a sign of life; life of the risen Christ is ours. ...

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After Christ's death on the cross, we enter the "proclaimed kingdom " where we are patiently waiting for His return. When Jesus went back to heaven, he commanded all Christians to spread the good news of God's salvation through Christ's death, and he explained that the delay in his return was to give everyone, Jews and Gentiles, a chance to hear his word and put their trust and faith in him. ... Christ often refers to the promises from the Old Testament and without knowing the Old Testament we only know half the story, and therefore cannot fully understand the Bible. Without u...

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That baptism is for those who have come to a personal faith in Jesus Christ 3. A priesthood of all believers, i.e. that every Christian has direct access to God through Jesus Christ, needing no human intermediary - although we also believe in a trained, ordained ministry. ...

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"Priestly ordination, which hands on the office entrusted by Christ to His apostles of teaching, sanctifying and governing the faithful, has in the Catholic Church from the beginning always been reserved to men alone. ... Jesus took twelve apostles who were all men and they all became priests. Christ acted as a role model for us. He selected all men because Jesus was the Son of God, the image of the Holy Father. In mass the priest must take the place of Christ resembling God, which a women is not able to do. ...

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In the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist, Eastern Orthodoxy holds that worshipers experience the parousia, a taste of the second coming of Christ . ... Furthermore, icons are displayed on particular feast days in order to create a visual reference of the feast or saint being celebrated.1 Icons are usually classified as images of Christ, Mary, saints, angels, or scenic representations of certain important events, such as the Transfiguration or Crucifixion of Christ.1 Finally, certain pious believers of the Eastern Orthodox religion trust in the miraculous appearance of icons, also referred ...

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The five Sundays during the Season of the Lent represent the death and resurrection of Christ. ... " It is believed that God feels the same way about us when we become baptized and give our life to Christ. ... The passion symbolism seems to fit Jesus' life best. ... The arrest was a lot more dramatized than portrayed by Matthew while Luke's version has Jesus not allowing Judas to kiss him. ... We have lost our spirituality and the real meaning of why Jesus went through the ordeal of being sacrificed and resurrected....

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Due to several things I feel led to minister to these people, and hopefully help bring the denomination back into the Truth of Jesus Christ. ... We need to go into the Brethren Church and flood it with the truth and love of Christ Jesus. ...

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"Baptist" means one who believes in the adult baptism of believers in Jesus. ... With both, followers are taught to read and retain the writings for they believe it is one clear way to personally know Christ. ... Baptist believe salvation is simply believing that Jesus Christ was the son of God sent from Heaven to save the world from sin (which equals death). Scripture says, "For by grace are you saved thru faith, it is a gift of God", and to accept Christ as your savior then you are saved and never condemned to hell. ... Most sisters, nuns and priest work tirelessly in the community to show...

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He is having a personal relationship with Christ. ... He recognizes that when the curtain was torn in the tabernacle upon the death of Christ that it symbolized that there was no more separation between God and man. ... The death of Christ made this so and Augustine recognizes this. ... It was like he was telling these stories and making these parallels to tell a story about the grace of God, much like the parables of Jesus or the writings of the apostles. ...

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Born of pain or born of joy all music carries some emotional weight, as Christians we seek to find ways to turn these emotional responses into a need for something more, either a realization of Christ or the want to know more of him. ... I am Christian, I am in a band, I make music that is personal and reflects the experiences in my life, the most important thing in my life is my relationship with Christ, but to say I am in a Christian band brings my audience down to less than 40 percent of America and my teenage audience to less than 20. ... I believe the only solution is to think of music as...

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He unlike others, believed that the highest relationship with God came at the time of the cross through Jesus; thus leading to his "theology of the cross." ... Baptism demonstrates the death and the resurrection of Jesus. ... His primary argument was that the presence of Christ in communion was real, but spiritual. ... Calvin felt it impossible for the body of Christ to descend and be present on more than one alter at a time. ...

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Jones was once heard saying, "I had had my religious heritage in Pentecostalism deep rooted emotions in the Christian tradition and a deep love which I share to this day for the practical teachings of Jesus Christ." ...

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