Sentences with phrase «evangelical church mekane»

A mere 0.5 percent belong to a free evangelical church.

David Kinnaman's UnChristian signaled that many Christians have concluded the big problem is that the evangelical church has aligned itself on the wrong side of some social issues, or with social issues that have little or no cultural cachet — and thus they move to champion more popular social...

«The evangelical church is an ever - present force before and after these dire situations.»

When I departed from the last evangelical church I attended a few years back, one of the men there sought to encourage me to stay with promises of renewal, of revival of coming restoration — I simply told him that I am no longer looking for these — I am looking for Reformation.

Why have one - quarter to one - third of evangelical church leaders changed their opinion of the term since the election?

All three strategies have seen success, from the use of media to win a government mandate to call Christians «Masihi» (Jesus is the Messiah) as opposed to «Isai» (which connotes disbelief in the resurrection) in Pakistan to Laotian pastor Khamphone Pounthapanya, who was imprisoned for his faith before becoming the general secretary of the Lao Evangelical Church and advocating for protection of Christians.

M.d religion is about man there is alot of man in the evangelical church as well as other churchs however the Holy spirit is the one we lean on to teach us Gods word he reveals the scriptures just as though Jesus was teaching his disciples in his day.Often after speaking in parable his disciples would ask what he meant and he would give them insight into the messages.I find for me if i struggle understanding a topic i ask the holy spirit to help me if you havent received him just invite him into your life if you have already confessed Jesus as your Lord and savior.We can not live a christian life without him.He is the one who empowers us to live righteously rather than according to our old nature.In the last year or so he has been showing me extraordinary insight into the word its new its fresh he is amazing.brentnz

The evangelical church does not seek to create religious virtuosos, but holy and saintly men and women in the call.»

Such wild prejudices alienated Chick from mainstream evangelicalism; to this day, no major Christian retailer offers any of Chick's material, and, as Joe Carter has noted, one is probably more likely to find a «Chicklet» in a gas station restroom than in an evangelical church.

It had never occurred to me how significantly the modern church — particularly the modern evangelical church — glorified and catered to extroversion, and how uncomfortable (even marginalized) introverts can feel in their own faith communities.

Martin Niemöller, German U-boat captain in World War 1, and later a fearless critic of the Nazi regime who was imprisoned from 1937 - 1945, then became president of the Evangelical Church of Hessen - Nassau in Germany.

Many are losing faith in the evangelical church and find it increasingly difficult see eye to eye on matters of politics or orthodoxy.

The reluctant church — especially the evangelical church — must begin a «slow recovery from its near abandonment nearly a century ago of social concern in its fight against the social gospel and theological liberalism.»

I like that the drawing itself could be interpreted as the parable - speaking «you need to metaphorically die and be born again (but not literally)» Jesus knocking on a literal evangelical church or it could be the «I am the way, the only way or you are going to literally burn in Hell» Jesus knocking on a progressive church.

Dr Rev Sameh Hanna, associate pastor at the Evangelical Church in Cairo told Premier the «secret» to remaining joyful.

Buna Kibongi of the Evangelical Church of Congo, Kenneth Grubb of Church of England, and K.E. Skydsgaard of Denmark also raised similar concerns.15 According to A.F. Glasser, the North American Evangelical, the evangelical voice had not been heard at Uppsala.

In 1934, representatives from eighteen provincial churches gathered in Barmen to create a «Confessing Synod» of the German Evangelical Church, declaring ecclesiastical independence from the Nazi regime.

It honestly seems to me (and this would require a lot of discussion) that much of what you seem to be having an issue with is a problem in the American Evangelical church.

From Deb: After 18 years at a large Evangelical church, including five years on the Kids» Ministry staff, my husband and I have recently returned to a small United Methodist Church we attended years ago.

At the big, evangelical church it was almost unheard of to have children in our classes who didn't attend church with both parents.

«The Gift of Salvation» is not an official accord between the Roman Catholic Church and any evangelical church or denomination.

Directly or indirectly, this philosophy of ministry - church should be a big box with programs for people at every level of spiritual maturity to consume and engage - has impacted every evangelical church in the country.

I grew up in a highly evangelical church and community.

Lisa Crane and her husband Ryan left their more traditional evangelical church for Tidd's church, and have no plans to go back.

I don't have any real experience in an evangelical church community.

And, actually, research supports this, as well as plenty of anecdotal evidence that the evangelical church is not, in terms of quality of vibrancy, on the decline.

But it fails from the start because the author, while claiming he has gay friends and would never take them to an evangelical church, still believes that those friends of his are sinners for no other reason than they are gay.

If you've attend a church service at an evangelical church in the last year, you've likely encountered what has become a staple of Sunday mornings across the country: wood panelling, weathered looking pallets or shiplap behind the pulpit, accented by exposed, hanging light bulbs.

Women's roles in the church most likely would have progressed much more quickly (and certainly would not have left us where things currently are in say the Catholic church or a fundamentalist or evangelical church); we don't even need to get into talking about the Inquisitions.

For example, under no circumstances should you stand in front of an evangelical church group and refer to God as «She»... unless, of course, you are prepared to divert the entire conversation to an argument over pronouns and the divine feminine.

He entered the Evangelical Church as a convert and received the name Heinrich Marx.

Rev Dr Jeremiah M Gado, president of the Evangelical Church Winning All (ECWA), to which Leah and her parents belong, issued a statement saluting her «courage, doggedness and faith» and condemning «in strong terms any attempt to forcefully convert anyone from one religion to another.»

Such declarations were proposed but defeated in the Evangelical Church in (West) Germany in 1958 and 1982.

The evangelical church in America is deeply invested in purity culture.

After all, he said «he repented», and now, he is just working in the community as politician, and he represents more power for the White Evangelical Church.

A denomination of about three million, the Evangelical Church of the Rhineland is one of twenty Lutheran, Reformed and United Protestant groups that make up the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD).

In Berlin, where hundreds of Muslims have converted to Christianity at an evangelical church, its pastor acknowledges that some may have political motives behind their faith decisions.

Rather than stay at Yale and work toward his doctorate, Niebuhr accepted the appointment by his denomination as pastor of Bethel Evangelical Church in Detroit, Michigan, in 1915.

Only in this way will the evangelical church prove itself to be a continuing authentic witness to the Christian faith in the days ahead.

Such rational problems, however, are not the real issue for the evangelical church, important though they be.

In sketching a cross section of current approaches to social ethics within the evangelical church, numerous approaches are possible.

We risk missing some of the richness of our faith as well as offending fellow Christians by pretending that interpretation is not an issue in the evangelical church.

The current controversy over women's place in worship and marriage can be healthy for the evangelical church, for only as a position is argued passionately and under pressure are its possibilities fully explored.

As we turn in the next chapter to consider the evangelical church's role in society, we will see that matters of a correct theological understanding of social ethics - one resting in Biblical authority - do not hinge so much on the issue of Biblical hermeneutics as they do on the matter of conflicting loyalties to ecclesiological traditions.

Only in this way can the current impasse in regard to Biblical authority be overcome and the evangelical church prove itself to be a continuing authentic witness to the Christian faith in the days ahead.

It also depends on the willingness of those within the evangelical church to reassess and reinterpret their cherished ethical positions in dialogue with fellow evangelicals whose differing theological traditions push them in new directions.

Evangelism and social justice, political power and the power of servanthood, the individual and the community, love and justice, these are the polarities that the evangelical church must address as it moves toward a Biblically informed consensus regarding social ethics.

Rather than continue to use such culturally derived, and ultimately unsuccessful, definitions of «justice,» the evangelical church must search out the Biblical norm.

Rev. Dr. Larry Poland is a minister in the Evangelical Church Alliance; Rabbi Abraham Cooper is the Associate Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center; Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein is the Interfaith Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

The issue of women's place in the church and family provides us another illustration of the general problem facing the evangelical church in America today.