Sentences with phrase «christian evangelism»

No attempt to «reconstitute» Q has succeeded in making of it a well - arranged «handbook», although there are signs of a rough general arrangement by subjects, (Cf. T. W. Manson in The Mission and Message of Jesus, pp. 3 f.) and these subjects seem to have included those most vital for Christian evangelism, the Substance of the Christian Life, Principles of Christian Missionary Propaganda, Defence of the New Religion against Jewish Attacks, Expectation of the Judgement.

I also wrote a book which takes a satirical look at Christian evangelism, so if you want a good laugh, try my book, Adventures in Fishing (for Men).

The story is an allegory (and a satire) about modern methods of Christian evangelism.

A humorous and light - hearted look at modern Christian evangelism practices.

But while the programs of the «Christ of culture» advocates are rich in the vocabulary of 19th century Christian evangelism, the images — and hence the real messages — resonate with The Technique, the gambits of modern television advertising.

Christian evangelism must become considerably more sophisticated and creative in working with and encouraging the workers in the secular media, if it wishes significantly to effect their products.

Perhaps the presentation of a radical ethic of economic justice, for example, might be a catalyst for genuine Christian evangelism.

One could argue that this shift, so expensive for Christian evangelism, was an important factor in legitimating the inevitable change in U.S. population after midcentury.

Well, regardless of my strong personal opinions about the Warner's christian evangelism, this is still a good story, IMHO, and it sounds like they have, and are continuing to make efforts to do some good in the world.

Christian evangelism among Jews remains one of the most sensitive and controversial issues in Jewish - Christian relations.

The current and evident nationwide revival of racism mirrors the current revival of christian evangelism; and these also mirror the rise of right wing politics and politicians who encourage and join in these activities.

North Korea has strict laws about Christian evangelism so the school doesn't teach doctrine, but does teach its students about other countries and other forms of government — something you can't get almost anywhere else in North Korea.

They love their Christian Evangelism

Not exact matches

Instead of openly challenging the criminalization of Christian missions and evangelism in Muslim contexts, we have engaged in undercover and underhand missions.

Offense is given to the Holy Spirit, holiness is quenched, and evangelism suffers, for outsiders see no point in becoming Christian.

We Protestants who signed ECT took this action to advance Christian fellowship, cooperation, and mutual trust among true Christians in the North American cultural crisis and in the worldwide task of evangelism.

Christians trying to be relevant often add story - telling to their «evangelism toolbox» because of how effectively it can be used to convey the gospel in an age without absolutes.

A new report has been published to help churches and Christian organisations better understand young people so they can be more effective in evangelism.

However, there are some Christians who believe evangelism is the sole calling of the Church, and my hope is to highlight that caring about the whole person — particularly a desperately needy person — is part of our role as «salt and light».

I find that this is a way a lot of us Christians are with evangelism.

Over the years, I have observed the bulk of the Evangelical fleet drift — and then in desperation for some greater motivation, change fuels — from the open - arms gasoline of evangelism meetings, to the super-sparks of charismatic gifts, to the sluggish - diesel of homogenized Biblical theology, to the stuttering - and - sparkle fuel of Christian music, to the nitro - flamed - fuel of hating gays, and now to the turbo - charged hatred of illegal aliens at home and Muslims overseas.

First and foremost in the thinking of these Next Christians is the rediscovery that the gospel is not just about evangelism so people can receive eternal life and go to heaven when they die (cf. pp. 66, 192).

He emphasizes that the heart of John Paul's pontificate is his evangelism and Christian humanism.

I've been devastated to find that satan has planted himself so firmly into the church and is leading people away from the truth about who Jesus is and what He did on the cross, and keeping Christians from prayer and evangelism, focusing instead on attacking believers and turning them from simple faith in Christ to Calvinism.

For John Paul II's 1990 encyclical Redemptoris Missio, the Magna Carta of the New Evangelization, called for urgent evangelism among Christians who had fallen away from the practice of the faith, or had been poorly catechized, or, more likely, had suffered both maladies, the latter contributing to the former.

Dr. John Sorensen, President of Evangelism Explosion International, a ministry that has trained millions of Christians around the world to share Christ, discusses the state of evangelism, research on evangelism trends, as well as myths and methods of eEvangelism Explosion International, a ministry that has trained millions of Christians around the world to share Christ, discusses the state of evangelism, research on evangelism trends, as well as myths and methods of eevangelism, research on evangelism trends, as well as myths and methods of eevangelism trends, as well as myths and methods of evangelismevangelism.

God is Redeeming Church Bible & Theology Topics: christian cliche, Discipleship, evangelism, sermons

America has been gaining more than 600,000 new Christians each year — all without the help of any evangelism efforts.

More than 100 evangelical leaders gathered today at the Billy Graham Center for Evangelism (BGCE) at Wheaton College to discuss how American Christians can best respond to the current refugee crisis.

Alexandru Stan of the Romanian Orthodox Church summarized some of the thinking of the Eastern Church, from the time of Justin Martyr, on the presence of God in all peoples, Christian and non-Christian alike; Metropolitan George Khodr of Beirut extended Orthodox thinking on the wide and restless work of the Holy Spirit; and Bishop Anastasios Yannoulatos of the Greek Orthodox Church offered a perspective shaped by his work as moderator of the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism.

They will often say that outreach and evangelism is the job of the individual Christian, and you will hear them say things like «Healthy sheep naturally reproduce.»

Andy Peck hosts «The Leadership File» on Premier Christian Radio and runs courses on personal and church evangelism at CWR, Farnham

Research indicates British Christians believe evangelism is important, but struggle to do it effectively.

Since it is not easy to draw the line between proselyting and evangelism, it may also be asserted that no teacher ought to evangelize for his faith in the classroom except through the silent witness of what he (or she) as a Christian is.

Its not the crusade form of evangelism or a one day message or a miracle that can sustain a Christian in their continued walk with Christ.

Christian women of the modern era have been pioneers in areas such as education, health care, business, artistic expression, social reform, and worldwide evangelism.

Readiness for evangelism: i.e., clarity about the story of one's own beginning and progress in the Christian life, and the ability to tell it so that it connects with the life and faith experience of the listener.

They are understandably reluctant to follow that segment of the R&D elite that does not consider evangelism, conversion, and discipleship (as least as donors understand these things) key components of Christian development ministry.

Evangelism was until recent years an unproblematic matter: it was simply what Christians did, and nobody doubted the propriety of their doing it.

In addition to shaping Christian thought through his voluminous publications («Fundamentalism» and the Word of God, Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God, and A Quest for Godliness, to name only three of the most popular), he helped steer the flagship Evangelical magazine Christianity Today, spoke at countless Evangelical conferences and local churches, mentored hundreds of future pastors through his seminary teaching, and lent his name to the back covers of more Evangelical books than probably any other Christian endorser ever.

On a third crucial point we also found ourselves in genuine consensus: «evangelism,» in the Wesleyan spirit, must speak of justice as earnestly as of justification, of Christian nurture and discipline as emphatically as of conversion, of Christian social action as boldly as of personal salvation.

The implication is that the causes of the malaise are internal; they are to be found in the structure of the church, the curriculum, the strategy for evangelism, the quality of pastoral leadership, or the general level of Christian commitment.

But our work together thus far has already established several points that may have an important bearing on the future of theological education in America: (1) the party - strife between «evangelicals» and «charismatics» and «ecumenicals» is not divinely preordained and need not last forever; (2) the Wesleyan tradition has a place of its own in the theological forum along with all the others; (3) «pluralism» need not signify «indifferentism»; (4) «evangelism» and «social gospel» are aspects of the same evangel; (5) in terms of any sort of cost - benefit analysis, a partnership like AFTE represents a high - yield investment in Christian mission; and (6) the Holy Spirit has still more surprises in store for the openhearted.

A new study from Barna is overturning some long - held assumptions about Christian Millennials and how prone they are to evangelism.

It overlooks the fact that the original or classical evangelicalism of the 18th and 19th centuries was united around a constellation of concerns which in the modern church have been divided up between the left and right: Reformation orthodoxy, the spiritual renewal of the church, Christian unity, evangelism and missions, the reformation of manners, and social reform.

And he concludes: «This experience taught me, a conservative evangelical, that when Christian witness is done in a spirit of vulnerability, service, and openness to others, it is evangelism... Proselytism, in contrast, is motivated by a spirit of churchly pride which goes against the grain of the Gospel.

The results were published in a pamphlet titled «What We Learned from What You Said,» and evangelism and Christian education were the top two priorities listed.

John Harmon accuses me of founding Christian witness «on critical thinking rather than evangelism.»

But in his essay on «The Civic Project of American Christianity» (February), Michael Hanby seems to encourage a form of Christian witness founded more on a double portion of critical thinking than on evangelism.

But at the deepest level this program of evangelism is, I believe, addressing only the Christian «in» group or fanning the religious nostalgia of the past.