 | Samuel Smith - 1902 - 710 pages
...Christian Endeavour movement is a preservative against priestcraft. It emphasizes the Lord's words : " Where two or three are gathered in my name there am I in the midst of them " ; also these other words, " Let your light shine before men that they may see your... | |
 | Dorothea Beale - 1902 - 182 pages
...seeking Him, if haply they may find Him — he has gained a fuller understanding of the Lord's words— " where two or three are gathered in My name, there am I ". And so he concludes with the Doxology. IKtD Ulinc. " Through the ages one unchanging purpose runs,... | |
 | Milton Valentine - 1906 - 512 pages
...filling all things with Himself. In the reality of His personal essence, He who reveals God says : " Where two or three are gathered in My name, there am I in the midst of them ;" " Lo, I am with you always." That this personal omnipresence must stand in the... | |
 | Willoughby Charles Allen - 1907 - 484 pages
...earth" and "in heaven" in both verses suggested the insertion of 19 here. Cf. note on v. T . L 2O. For where two or three are gathered in My name, there am I in the midst of them.] That is to say, the prayer of two who are agreed will receive an answer, because... | |
 | Allen Macy Dulles - 1907 - 326 pages
...mark of The Church. Louis XIV said : " I am the state." Jesus alone can say : " I am The Church." " Where two or three are gathered in My name, there am I." Where Christ is, there is The Church. Where Jesus is, there will be unity, sanctity, catholicity. The... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1908 - 802 pages
...burgher of the Christian ages to his cathedral. For him, the quite simply and frankly-believed text, " Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them,"2 was expanded into the wider promise to many honest and industrious persons gathered... | |
 | Margaret Starbird - 2003 - 134 pages
...Gospels, Jesus promises that he will be in continued communion with those who follow him: "Wherever two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them" (Matt. 1 8.20). This invitation to remain united with him is reinforced in the Book... | |
 | Luke Timothy Johnson - 2004 - 212 pages
...within the body of disciples with whom he has chosen to associate. Christians value Jesus' declaration, 'Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in their midst,' not because Jesus necessarily said it in the past, but because it speaks truth about... | |
 | David A. deSilva - 2004 - 980 pages
...of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them" (Mt 18:19-20 RSV). While, on the one hand, the Christians may suffer marginalization... | |
 | James Tunstead Burtchaell - 2004 - 404 pages
...practice of the church, and hence it could and should be discontinued. Like Luther he cites Matthew 18: "Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them. What they bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, what they loose on earth, shall... | |
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For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them. 
