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501 9,3    |     Christian identity and to serve Christ as fully as possible. Are
502 9,3    |       affirm our common identity in Christ even at the risk of perhaps
503 9,3    |         closer to the sufferings of Christ and taught him to rely not
504 9,3    |            aroma of the new life in Christ to all who were being saved.
505 9,3    |            thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumph (
506 9,3    |       fragrance of the knowledge of Christ everywhere” (2 Cor. 2:14).~
507 9,3    |              just as in the case of Christ, true triumph is achieved
508 9,3    |         great Apostle tells us that Christ had spoken to him saying: “
509 9,3    |         concludes: “For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with
510 9,3    |             Orthodoxy is the way of Christ. Behind the symbols, the
511 9,3    |             the crucified and risen Christ, the heart of Orthodoxy,
512 9,3    |            the Sunday of Orthodoxy, Christ through His icon looks upon
513 9,3    |             to the end of ages.” To Christ, together with the Father
514 10,1   |        fulfillment of one’s life in Christ and the attainment of one’
515 10,1   |          you can become all fire!”~ Christ has been called a “fire-starter.”
516 10,1   |            as have been baptized in Christ, you have put on Christ” (
517 10,1   |             Christ, you have put on Christ” (cf. Gal. 3:29). At each
518 10,1   |             grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God the
519 10,1   |           the light of the glory of Christ. “Therefore we do not lose
520 10,1   |             our minds and hearts in Christ, the full recovery of holy
521 10,2   |             have placed the love of Christ and the cause of His kingdom
522 10,2   |          the power of the Gospel of Christ, nor in the mission of the
523 10,3   |            It is the affirmation of Christ and the Holy Spirit in each
524 10,3   |           according to the model of Christ. Orthodoxy also knows conciliarity (
525 10,3   |              members of the Body of Christ. In the words of Saint Paul, “
526 10,3   |            and use in the spirit of Christ. Also, no theological impediments
527 10,3   |             of God in human beings. Christ came, as has been said,
528 10,3   |        ourselves have received from Christ, the Apostles and the Church
529 10,4   |        spoke of the new creation in Christ in terms of “God’s love
530 10,4   |     conversion of the inner self to Christ. It happens when, by the
531 10,4   |         Pantocrator, the All-ruling Christ, in the domes of our Churches,
532 10,4   |            of the soul yearning for Christ, no amount of good works
533 10,5   |             and focus of renewal is Christ Himself in Whom we know
534 10,5   |         Whom we receive the Spirit. Christ said: “I am the way, and
535 10,5   |             and Hades” (Rev. 1:17). Christ and His Gospel is the foundation
536 10,5   |         from the active response to Christ and the Gospel: that Christ
537 10,5   |         Christ and the Gospel: that Christ died for our sins and that
538 10,5   |   integrated trilogy of response to Christ and the good news constitutes
539 10,5   |     reliance, abiding dependence on Christ as risen Lord, present and
540 10,5   |           the historical witness of Christ and a clear way of life.
541 10,5   |             trust and commitment to Christ, the supreme revelation
542 10,5   |          the beauty and goodness of Christ. Everyone has the capacity
543 10,5   |         your neighbor as yourself,” Christ said (Mk 12:30-31). As soon
544 10,5   |            way of life according to Christ. The Church Fathers have
545 10,5   |           the image and likeness of Christ, a decisive and abiding
546 10,5   |            a changed way of life in Christ — and nothing else. God’
547 10,5   |   Repentance makes our knowledge of Christ existential. It gives us
548 10,5   |           the mystery of the living Christ. It stokes the fire of holy
549 10,5   |            of obedience is found in Christ’s words: “If one loves me,
550 10,5   |             all loving obedience to Christ and His truth, an obedience
551 10,5   |       obedience that unites us with Christ and grants the celebration
552 10,5   |            Pascha in communion with Christ. Whoever asks for obedience,
553 10,5   |        oneself first be obedient to Christ and be ready to serve Him
554 10,5   |         motivated by the example of Christ’s love and service. Otherwise,
555 10,5   |             spirit and the truth of Christ, who in a word violate divine
556 10,5   |      deepest seat of good and evil. Christ said: “For out of the heart
557 10,5   |            obedience and renewal in Christ. Obedience is meant as a
558 10,5   |            soul as a pure virgin to Christ. True obedience taps the
559 10,5   |            deeper our experience of Christ, and the more effective
560 10,5   |        other way to the new life in Christ than centering on Christ
561 10,5   |            Christ than centering on Christ and practicing the trilogy
562 10,5   |          ladder one step at a time. Christ looks down from heaven encouraging
563 10,5   |        burdens. But let us focus on Christ. All of us possess the holy
564 10,5   |             order that the grace of Christ may glow to its full power.
565 11,3   |          God as the Father of Jesus Christ, faith and life are co-equal
566 11,3   |             Knowledge of God and of Christ are integrally connected
567 11,3   |           that my personal faith in Christ and my commitment to the
568 11,4   |            I may strongly disagree? Christ has taught His followers
569 11,4   |       between Christian and Jews is Christ who paradoxically both binds
570 11,4   |            is said by scholars that Christ and Christianity do not
571 11,4   |              But should the role of Christ, and the consequent trinitarian
572 11,4   |            to be His people through Christ. It is true that Jews and
573 11,4   |            through the good news of Christ, notwithstanding the sins
574 11,4   |    fulfilled by the dispensation of Christ,” or even to say, “your
575 11,4   |           their disobedience toward Christ, are still the elect people
576 11,4   |           of disobedience regarding Christ, (that is, from the viewpoint
577 11,4   |      Abraham to Paul, from Moses to Christ, from the Sinai and Golgotha
578 11,4   |           and had been fulfilled by Christ, according to his experience
579 11,4   |     preached that believing Jews in Christ — much less unbelieving
580 11,4   |          context St. Basil lifts up Christ’s example of love and humility
581 11,4   |         Christian is an imitator of Christ in thought, word and deed,
582 11,4   |       without change, becoming man. Christ, our God, You were crucified
583 11,4   |       interpretation of the mode of Christ's presence in the eucharistic
584 11,4   |        perspective, see my article “Christ, Church and Eucharist,”
585 11,4   |           entitled The Good News of Christ (Brookline: Holy Cross Press,
586 11,4   |     fundamentally concerns faith in Christ and specifically “works
587 11,4   |          valid and are fulfilled by Christ (Rom. 2:21-26; 8:4; 13:9;
588 11,4   |            8:4; 13:9; 1 Cor. 7:19). Christ, the Gospel, and Christian
589 11,4   |        grace. . . through faith” in Christ and it is a “gift of God” (
590 11,4   |           God” (Eph. 2:8). Faith in Christ and good works are integrated,
591 11,4   |    Stylianopoulos, The Good News of Christ: Essays on the Gospel, Sacraments
592 11,4   |             lack of faithfulness to Christ and to the Christian community.
593 11,4   |          Jews who do not believe in Christ. I no longer interpret Rom.
594 11,4   |        though disobedient regarding Christ, they are still the elect