Sentences with phrase «christian evangelisation»

One of the significant obstacles to Christian evangelisation in the 21st century is the widely held notion in the West, both by fundamentalist [1] Christians and by non-Christians, that there is an inherent conflict between science and religion.

Christian evangelisation campaigns are clearly unable to compete with the godless messages preached all day and every day on the TV, radio and in printed media.

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At the same time, it must be said that this ecumenical (to all the inhabited world) sense of the missionary aim was given new impetus by what John R. Mott (Edinburgh, 1910) defined as «the decisive hour of Christian Mission» which called for» the evangelisation of the world in this generation».

The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby was interviewed on Premier Christian Radio this morning about Thy Kingdom Come — a week of prayer for the evangelisation...

As you know, a Pontifical Council has recently been established for the New Evangelisation of countries of long - standing Christian tradition, and I would encourage you to avail yourselves of its services in addressing the task before you.

Proposition 18: New Evangelisation and the Means of Social Communication It is necessary that convinced Christians be formed, prepared and made capable... to use well the languages and the instruments of today... [especially to] share testimonies of life.

There is also an urgent need to work for the new evangelisation in Africa, especially among people who have distanced themselves from the Church or who do not behave in a Christian fashion.

[5] At the global level, the key event is to be the XIII General Assembly of the Ordinary Synod of Bishops in October 2012 dedicated to The New Evangelisation for the Transmission of the Christian Faith.

And just as the eclipse of God and the crisis of the family are linked, so the new evangelisation is inseparable from the Christian family.

As we await the Papal Exhortation following the recent Synod on «The New Evangelisation for the Transmission of the Christian Faith» Dr Dudley Plunkett encourages a humble realism concerning the state of British «outreach».

The courageous work of pro-life groups in vigils at abortion clinics, of street pastors working with clubbers at night - time in city centres, of those offering prayer ministry for healing in shopping centres, of street evangelisers such as the St Patrick's group in Soho - all these examples need to be better known, and imitated.1 Then there's the output of media groups working through radio, TV, internet sites, blogs and video teaching programmes, such as Catholic Evangelisation Services; these too, while offering an independent type of Christian teaching, provide an important stimulus to on - the - ground evangelising.

Perhaps those who prefer to play down the «difficult parts» of Christian life in their outreach to a dechristianised culture are reasoning that, just as the worst thing you can do to a man who has severe hypothermia is to warm him up too fast, it is counter-productive to do too much, too soon in evangelisation.

Likewise, Christians must discover what has led to the rapid de-Christianisation of our nation before we can propose a successful evangelisation plan and implement it.

And this is the context in which the Pope refers to Christian families open to life as «a key agent in the New Evangelisation».