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Judges
...in 1:1, the mood is positive and the intention sincere. Faced with divine instructions to complete their takeover of the land of Palestine, the Israelites want to ...eece is wet and the floor dry, Gideon will know that the messenger and his instructions really did come from God. The request is granted and the fleece placed on t

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1 Corinthians
...t of it is included in the reading cycle of the Revised Common Lectionary. Instructions on the ritual of the Lord’s Supper (11:23-26) have shaped the church’s

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1 & 2 Kings
...story of Israel from its entry into the land following Moses’ valedictory instructions in Deuteronomy but also the final act in the grand story of humanity that b ...g the prophecy of Elijah, calls for violent overthrow that far exceeds his instructions from Elisha; Jehu himself exceeds even the violence of the prophetic word i

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Statement of Doctrine (Conservative Mennonite Conference, 1991)
...the Incarnate revelation disregards the epistles as the product of Jesus' instructions to his disciples to teach "them to observe all things whatsoever I have com

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The Bern Debate of 1538: Christ the Center of Scripture
...all oaths was their only possible response. Their concern for the specific instructions of Scripture was rooted in their concept of radical obedience. If Christ co

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Jude
...goal of this waiting is eternal life—ultimate, climactic mercy. These four instructions include a common NT triad—“faith, hope, and love”—with a trinitaria

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Waterlander Confession of Faith (1577)
...essions of faith were not taken to be final is seen, for example, from the instructions given to Hans de Ries at a gathering of many Mennonite ministers in Amsterd

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Leadership and Authority in the Life of the Church (Mennonite Church, 1981)
...hould have a distinctive character because of its origin and New Testament instructions for its exercise. The authority of the church comes from Jesus Christ who g 2. Together with these examples, several passages give instructions about women in the church and about the relation of women and men; for exam

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Ruth
...f the scene. Boaz begins with a very directive speech to Ruth (2:8-9). His instructions, along with his address ("my daughter"), suggest that Boaz has assumed resp

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Exodus
...en he follows God's order to ascend the mountain to receive further divine instructions. '''The Book of the Covenant (Covenant Code; 20:22–23:33)'''. God’s instructions are expanded beyond the Ten Commandments to include a variety of “laws”

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Ephesians
...ntrast to other instances of the Household Code, in Ephesians the domestic instructions are framed by the call to be filled with the Spirit (5:18), or enlivened by

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Ezekiel
.... Third, worship of God requires a response to grace of obedience to God’s instructions (11:19-20). (Lind: 360-61, 382)

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Jonah
...son to ascribe bigotry to Jonah’s motive for refusing to comply with God’s instructions. Nor dare we conclude, as some have, that Jonah, the Jew, objected to the c

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Deuteronomy
...ing" the Promised Land (or is it, "receiving" the land?), it also includes instructions for going to war. Israel knew and understood war as an ever-present reality

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Kenneth Miller
...house. I walked the short distance with him to his house and went over the instructions for treating the wound and taking the medication. Around 12:45, the three o

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The Authority of the Canon
...he inter-cultural missionary dynamics of the church (such as the apostolic instructions about the place of women) will be less credible. Interpretations purporting

62 KB (10,561 words) - 03:06, 31 August 2022
American Mennonites and the Bible, by C. Norman Kraus

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American Mennonites and the Bible

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The Confession of Faith (P.J. Twisck, 1617)
...ts of gratitude from their faith; which may not be done according to human instructions, in a self-selected holiness, but in which we follow Christ and His apostle ...ample, and to bring them up in the fear of the Lord, by good teachings and instructions, without using on them baptism, the Supper, or any other ceremonies; since

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Mennonite Articles of Faith by Cornelis Ris (1766)
...mmandments respecting the administration of His kingdom, nor among all the instructions of his apostles. (We know nothing as to how the government is to be institu

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