Sentences with phrase «true evangelical faith»

«True evangelical faith can not lie dormant.

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No doubt more evangelicals are able to engage their neighbors in serious discussion of their faith than is true of most other Methodists.

Neo-fundamentalists believe they alone are remaining true to the fullness of the gospel and orthodox faith while the rest of the evangelical church is in grave, near - apocalyptic danger of theological drift, moral laxity, and compromise with a postmodern culture — a culture which they see as being characterized by a skepticism towards Enlightenment conceptions of «absolute truth,» a pluralistic blending of diverse beliefs, values, and cultures, and a suspicion of hierarchies and traditional sources of authority.

I have heard Evangelicals worry whether the faith they have is «true» or «authentic» faith, or whether they are deceiving themselves.

While this is true of Evangelical Protestantism, Catholics and Orthodox Christians believe that to follow Jesus is to love your neighbor as you love yourself and that acts are more important than faith.

Such is the display of fair - weathered faith in Joshua Marston's fourth feature film, Come Sunday, which relates the true trials and travails of evangelical Bishop Carlton Pearson, who in the late 1990s caused waves amongst his religious community in Tulsa, Oklahoma when he announced God spoke to him and confirmed all souls are eligible to be received in heaven, whether they accept Jesus Christ as their lord and savior or not (which also negates the threat of hell, a punishment which has kept communities frozen in antiquated fear - based decision making for centuries).