Sentences with phrase «christian evangelical world»

Much of the American Christian Evangelical world would say «Amen» to your theology, so I guess that can be comforting too.

Not exact matches

Seeing the endless stream of evangelical Christians and Jews on birthright trips from all over the world touring through Jerusalem, I want to stop and shake them and tell them what they're missing, what I wasn't told.

But for all its diversity, the Assembly was far from «representative» of the church; most of the world's Christians who are found in Catholic, Pentecostal, and evangelical fellowships would find little of the familiar in Canberra.

The Jews should support GOP because the Evangelical Christians alone truly love the Jews and would protect Israel in all the world.

Whether it is crazy US evangelicals or other christians around the world, none of you can meet the burden of proof.

Rather, he constantly emphasizes the Christian's evangelical authority to come before God on behalf of the brethren and also of the world.

At the same time, we recognize that, during the past five hundred years, the Holy Spirit, the Supreme Magisterium of God, has been faithfully at work among theologians and exegetes in both Catholic and Evangelical communities, bringing to light and enriching our understanding of important biblical truths in such matters as individual spiritual growth and development, the mission of Christ's Church, Christian worldview thinking, and moral and social issues in today's world.

The Rev Johan Candelin, Director of the Religious Liberty Commission, World Evangelical Fellowship believes 200m in 60 nations are being denied their basic human rights because they are Christians.

One might look, for example, at From Culture Wars to Common Ground: Religion and the American Family Debate, by neoliberal Protestants Don Browning, Bonnie Miller - McLemore, Pamela Couture, Bernie Lyon and Robert Franklin; Gender and Grace: Love, Work, and Parenting in a Changing World, by evangelical Protestant Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen; and Sex, Gender and Christian Ethics, by Catholic Lisa Sowle Cahill.

Be Not Afraid: A Letter to my Charismatic Brothers and Sisters:: I wrote this letter after Charisma News wrote an absolutely heinous editorial justifying islamophobia and then the evangelical world freaked out because Michael Gungor dared to say that he didn't believe in six day creation (news flash: a lot of Christians don't and haven't for millenia).

On accepting the role, he said: «Spring Harvest has a wonderful history and I want it to be a place of real Evangelical unity where many different Christian groups can come together to worship our amazing God and be inspired to change our world for Him.

What I am hearing from you is describing Wheaton College as a «beacon» and «one of the best evangelical and protestant institutions in the world» and you implication is that David is a «fellow Christian» that is slandering the institution.

Contemporary evangelical Christians — leading the world in turning people off from Christianity.

Everything from submission to pornography to finances and date nights are discussed here, with a candidness that will, says the publisher, «send shock waves throughout the evangelical world,» vowing it will be among «the most talked - about Christian marriage releases in years.»

I'm pretty sure not a single homosexual in the Western world is unaware that most evangelical Christians believe their desires and / or lifestyle to be sinful.

From the beginning of his pontificate, he reached out to religious believers outside the Church; and as he grew closer to them throughout the world, it had a parallel effect of forging new alliances in America, particularly between Evangelicals and Catholics, and Jews and Catholics, who have worked together to protect the family, uphold Judeo - Christian morality and combat prejudice.

For years I struggled with the idea that conservative evangelical Christians had a monopoly on truth and that everyone else in the world faced likely damnation.

John Stackhouse with «We'll Miss You Uncle John» «John R. W. Stott set a standard of intellectual, homiletical, theological, pastoral, and political excellence unparalleled in our time among evangelicals and perhaps among any other group of Christians in the world.»

Contemporary evangelical Christians (of all stripes) lead the world in turning people off from Christianity.

As countries from around the world converged on Bonn, Germany, recently to discuss the global response to climate change, evangelical Christians were among them.

They believe that Christian R&D groups have a responsibility not only to inform the evangelical community of the extent of Third World needs but also to persuade them that «they [are] very much part of the problem.»

And when it comes to «family values,» we're weary of battles to «protect» marriage from gay couples, when so many young evangelicals have grown up in broken homes, witnessing our parents divorce and remarry at rates just as high as in the non-evangelical world (more than 33 % of marriages among born - again Christians end in divorce, the same as in the general population).

That many evangelicals believe that America was once a Christian nation and should be turned in that direction again, Boyd argues, has damaged the ministry of the church, both in this country and around the world.

The evidence for this phenomenon is incontestable: the influx of non «SBC evangelical scholars into Baptist seminaries; the changing of the name of the Baptist Sunday School Board to the more generic LifeWay Christian Resources; the presence and high profile of non «Baptist leaders on SBC platforms, e.g., the closing message at the 1998 SBC delivered by Dr. James Dobson, a Nazarene; the aggressive participation of the SBC's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission as an advocate for the conservative side of the culture wars conflict; new patterns of cooperation between SBC mission boards and evangelical ministries such as Promise Keepers, Campus Crusade for Christ, the National Association of Evangelicals, Prison Fellowship, and World Vision.

When I used to attend (evangelical christian) church there was always a vocal strain of folks who wanted to think they were persecuted, they told made - up stories about christians being persecuted in various parts of the world (at the time a lot of them were set in the U.S.S.R.)... it was so obvious that they LOVED thinking of themselves as some small group of martyrs, that they NEEDED to imagine themselves to be a persecuted minority... holding on to some secret truth that the rest of the world had turned its back on.

The real story is that Ahok is a Chinese evangelical Christian, a double - minority in the world's largest Islamic nation.

Even more disturbing, 71 per cent of evangelical Christians said they believe the world will end in an Armegaddon battle between Jesus Christ and the Antichrist.

More evangelical fundamentalist Christians need to ponder «My kingdom is not of this world» and «Render unto Caesar» before they whine about blowback from trying to ram their interpretation of a great religion down the throats of everyone.

The evangelical Christian world has fractured into four main streams.

NO, NO, NO I am sorry I am not a racist but I see the Muslin religion as de evil that is spreading all over the World with one mission, to convert as many as possible into the brain wash religion (I don't like any organized religion) but the Muslin is a very dangerous one, you can argue with Christian, Catholic, Evangelicals and they will not tried to kill you (they might try to take your rights way but not kill).

Early in his campaign, Mitt Romney spoke at Liberty University, the largest evangelical Christian university in the world.

The task of confronting the nonevangelical world over the issue of Biblical authority is being undercut by the desire to challenge fellow evangelicals» notions of inspiration What is distinctively evangelical needs again to be forcefully presented to the wider Christian community.

In which I tell you the truth about telling the truth:: I'm pretty sure not a single homosexual in the Western world is unaware that most evangelical Christians believe their desires and / or lifestyle to be sinful.

It is a little - known fact among American Christians that Pike was not only an evangelical missionary and Bible translator but also one of the world's top linguistic scientists of the 20th century.

He has decidedly mixed feelings about the book and ends with this: «In the end, Chafets» effort misses the mark for the same reason that Jewish opining about Evangelicals is misguided: the limits of seeing the evangelical world merely through the lens of Jewish - Christian and / or Israeli / American relations.

We offer this statement on the > communio sanctorum in the spirit of the concluding words of our first statement in 1994: «This is a time of opportunity» and, if of opportunity then of responsibility» for Evangelicals and Catholics to be Christians together in a way that helps prepare the world for the coming of Him to whom belongs the kingdom, the power, and the glory forever.

The signers of the statement pledged themselves to such Christian solidarity and, while this initiative has not been without its critics, both Evangelical and Catholic, we are greatly heartened by the thousands who have joined in that pledge, both in this country and in other parts of the world.

The pietistic, don't - get - involved - in - politics attitude found among evangelicals and fundamentalists elsewhere in the world can certainly be found among South African Christians.

However, when discussing the uniqueness of Jesus Christ, Wheeler maintains that whether «Jesus Christ's divine - human unity is the sole member of its class, as evangelical Christians would typically claim,» or is «a paradigmatic member of a class with multiple members» as Whiteheadians contend, this crucial unity can be construed more fundamentally by those in both groups as an example of a systemic change of the God - world relationship happening once in the history of humanity globally (105).

While many mainline and some evangelical leaders criticized the validity of this interpretation of the Christian faith, the paid - time broadcasters intuited accurately that television had become the «real world» for millions of people, one to which the Christian faith must be communicated in terms common to that world.

We want the unbelieving world — at least that part of it we care most about — to see that evangelicals really are on the righteous side, so that they just may entertain Christian faith themselves.

In 1975 there appeared in Germany a book entitled: The Berlin Ecumenical Manifesto, on the Utopian Vision of the World Council of Churches, edited by Walter Kunneth and Peter Beyerhaus.34 The book attacked not only the World Council of Churches but also the Lutheran World Federation, World Student Christian Federation, certain Roman Catholic groups, the German Evangelical Kirchentag, Taize, and to some extent even Lausanne.35 According to H. Berkof, the common thread through all the articles in the book was the desire to demonstrate that the World Council of Churches no longer sought to proclaim the Gospel throughout the world, but strove rather for a purely horizontal, social and political, humanization and unification of mankind by means of religious pluralism and syncreWorld Council of Churches, edited by Walter Kunneth and Peter Beyerhaus.34 The book attacked not only the World Council of Churches but also the Lutheran World Federation, World Student Christian Federation, certain Roman Catholic groups, the German Evangelical Kirchentag, Taize, and to some extent even Lausanne.35 According to H. Berkof, the common thread through all the articles in the book was the desire to demonstrate that the World Council of Churches no longer sought to proclaim the Gospel throughout the world, but strove rather for a purely horizontal, social and political, humanization and unification of mankind by means of religious pluralism and syncreWorld Council of Churches but also the Lutheran World Federation, World Student Christian Federation, certain Roman Catholic groups, the German Evangelical Kirchentag, Taize, and to some extent even Lausanne.35 According to H. Berkof, the common thread through all the articles in the book was the desire to demonstrate that the World Council of Churches no longer sought to proclaim the Gospel throughout the world, but strove rather for a purely horizontal, social and political, humanization and unification of mankind by means of religious pluralism and syncreWorld Federation, World Student Christian Federation, certain Roman Catholic groups, the German Evangelical Kirchentag, Taize, and to some extent even Lausanne.35 According to H. Berkof, the common thread through all the articles in the book was the desire to demonstrate that the World Council of Churches no longer sought to proclaim the Gospel throughout the world, but strove rather for a purely horizontal, social and political, humanization and unification of mankind by means of religious pluralism and syncreWorld Student Christian Federation, certain Roman Catholic groups, the German Evangelical Kirchentag, Taize, and to some extent even Lausanne.35 According to H. Berkof, the common thread through all the articles in the book was the desire to demonstrate that the World Council of Churches no longer sought to proclaim the Gospel throughout the world, but strove rather for a purely horizontal, social and political, humanization and unification of mankind by means of religious pluralism and syncreWorld Council of Churches no longer sought to proclaim the Gospel throughout the world, but strove rather for a purely horizontal, social and political, humanization and unification of mankind by means of religious pluralism and syncreworld, but strove rather for a purely horizontal, social and political, humanization and unification of mankind by means of religious pluralism and syncretism.

World gatherings of the Evangelicals, such as the Berlin Congress on Evangelism in 1966, the Wheaton Congress on World Christian Mission, also in 1966, and the Lausanne International Congress on World Evangelism of 1971, were seen by Winter and others as a response to the absorption of missionary concerns into the World Council of Churches.1

ad is signed by dozens of Christian leaders, including evangelicals like David Beckman, president of the charity Bread for the World, and author Brian McLaren.

«Not only in Europe and North America but equally even in Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America, we find countless Christians with the same strongly held suspicions of the World Council of Churches or at any rate the same type of evangelical faith».37 Then Berkof makes an important observation.

I was a Psychology major at Wheaton College (an Evangelical Christian College) and somehow, one teacher had us read Frankl — like you, he was of many thinkers that rocked my exclusive Christian world.

Fundamentalist churches have formed the National Association of Evangelicals, a counterpart to the National Council of Churches; they have also organized the International Council of Christian Churches as a parallel to the World Council of Churches.

(CNN)-- World Relief, a Christian evangelical aid organization, is collaborating with Kenyan churches and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to stem the tide of acute malnutrition across the northern region of Kenya called Turkana.

His departure appeared to be set in motion by an article on the website of the evangelical magazine World that accused D'Souza, who is married, of sharing a hotel room with a woman whom he allegedly referred to as his «fiancé» at a Christian conference.

In this new series, Premier Christianity will be hearing from some of the world's leading sceptics, beginning with former evangelical Christian Bart Ehrman, whose questioning of the Gospel accounts led him to lose his faith