Sentences with phrase «when evangelicals»

Rev. Richard Cizik, the vice president of governmental affairs for the National Association of Evangelicals, a group that represents 30 million Christians says, «when evangelicals feel they have permission to vote on a wider range of issues, they're not going to be thinking that Republicans are God's party.»

It is an insult to those Christians around the world who face actual persecution when evangelicals complain because public school teachers are not allowed to lead children in prayer before lunchtime because it violates the Establishment Clause.

Will they listen when Evangelicals demand an end to the 1.3 MILLION killed every every so the abortion mills can keep running?

In «Evangelicals in the Church of Mary» (December 2000), Daniel P. Moloney addresses the problems involved when evangelicals actively evangelize in Roman Catholic venues.

As an aside, being targeted in this way is probably the closest I'll get to feeling the way many non-Christians must feel when Evangelicals target them for «outreach.»

For the sake of accuracy, «Open» will be used rather than «evangelical» to describe the partner in this phase of the evangelical / process dialogue when all evangelicals would not hold to a specific position.

«When evangelicals turn their anti-gay sentiments into a political campaign,» one college senior on her way to graduate school told me, «all it does is confirm to my gay friends that they will never be welcome in the church.

It may seem unkind for me to say such a thing about Christians but if we're being honest here... I'm only saying what most Americans are thinking when Evangelicals make those kinds of statements.

Oddly, when Evangelicals say I'm not orthodox, they have to realize that Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox might say the same about them, since apostolic succession and the primacy of the bishops aren't small matters in those traditions.

Needless to say, this creates a significant credibility crisis when evangelicals then rise to speak in defense of marriage.»

It also took place at a time when the evangelicals severely criticized the WCC for its lack of proper direction in evangelism.

Nairobi Assembly was called at a time when the evangelicals.

I remember the day when Evangelicals lived in shear fear of the prospect of their daughters returning home, saying they had fallen in love with a Mormon.

When Evangelicals claim adultery as biblical grounds for divorce, they not only put words into Jesus's mouth that the Gospels do not record him as actually saying, but they mutilate the essence of the uniqueness of the Christian witness to marriage.

When evangelicals stop preaching sermons on Gran Torino and dropping iPods from helicopters on Easter, I'll start caring about Fatima.I mean, do I have a Spiritual aversion to the «ceremonies, vows, works, and merits» of my brothers and sisters across the Tiber?

okay so this article still didn't explain why they have so much clout... except, maybe, the media gives it to them... anyhoo... i was taught to give to God what is God's and to Caesar what is Caesar's... so when the Evangelicals can explain that to me better i will listen to them... until then they have no clout

LaSalle Street Church in the Near North neighborhood looks like a venerable downtown First Church, but it actually began in the 1960s when evangelicals from institutions like Wheaton College and Moody Bible Institute sought to create a grittier, more streetwise form of church life.

I find it slightly annoying sometimes when some evangelicals downplay this tension.

And when we Evangelicals share our faith in ways you find oppressive, please don't ask us to disavow what is fundamental to our identity.

One of the agencies, World Relief, was started in 1945 as the War Relief Commission when evangelicals wanted to help refugees fleeing war - torn Europe.

When evangelicals decide something is worth doing, they do it.

McLaren elaborates: «When evangelicals sing, they sing.

I would much rather see us continue to focus on the major issues of Reformed thought in an admittedly pluralistic denomination than get into the debates that seem inevitably to arise when evangelicals have established their own «pure» denominations.

When evangelicals preach, they preach.

Back in the «70s, when evangelicals were debating Reformed - versus - Anabaptist perspectives on faith and politics, I participated in a forum in which a self - proclaimed «radical Christian» urged all of us to «stand over against everything this American political system stands for.»

Well, in the US, it happened about 40 years ago when Evangelicals infiltrated and overtook the Republican Party.

Following an election year when evangelicals were divided between their support for Trump, the mean rating for evangelicals remained at 61 while the mean rating for Buddhists, Mormons and Hindus shifted from relatively neutral to warmer ratings.

When evangelicals have been forced to choose, experience and activism usually have beaten out dogma.

When evangelicals support Phil Roberston and his comments, it tells me we've grown to love our positions more than people.

When Evangelicals support him and his offensive views, they make it clear that they don't support me, a fellow Christian.

When evangelicals support Phil Robertson, they tell each of us — not just the gay us, the black us; but the fearful us, the harmed us — «I do not, will not love you as Jesus does.»

«When evangelicals support Phil Robertson, it tells me that they want me gone, that they'll do whatever it takes to scare me away.

«When evangelicals support Phil Robertson, it tells me less about their attitudes toward sexual minorities than their ongoing interactions with me do.

When evangelicals stop preaching sermons on Gran Torino and dropping iPods from helicopters on Easter, I'll start caring about Fatima.

Olson knows very well how difficult it is to maintain the coherence of the movement when evangelical pastors and scholars so love a good debate.

At 51, I remember the hippie Jesus freaks of the 70s when the Evangelical movement took off, which has a whole lot more in common with millenials» views than the current crop of Evangelical Pharisees.

When the Evangelical Climate Initiative (ECI) was launched in the winter of 2006, I saw the ad they published in The New York Times and the media coverage around that launch.

And when Evangelical leaders regard an emphasis on the ordinary means of grace as jeopardizing the Christian faith while going easy on, for example, serious deviations from Nicene teaching on the Trinity, they have traveled a long way from the concerns of the Reformers.

When some Evangelical magazines and websites wrote snarky things about my participation in my gay son's wedding, several prominent Evangelicals contacted me in private and said, «You did the right thing.»

I suppose the United States crumbled and was destroyed those years also, only to magically reappear when an evangelical was re-elected.

When Evangelical beliefs go against the vote of this country for RoevsWade, and this causes murder of doctors, and nurses how good then is this conservative belief?

I remember when the evangelical goofiness started taking over in the 70s.

For instance, an acquaintance of mine on the national staff of a Protestant denomination was deeply disturbed when an evangelical conference on porn used a photo of a woman's naked breast among its examples — hardly a case of the material available in porn shops.

I chatted to a well - known OT scholar once, who stated, «There will come a day when evangelical Christians have to repent of their attitude to homosexuality; it is no more sinful than wearing polycotton shirts.»

Given evangelicalism's common theological center with regard to Scripture, it is surprising to some when evangelical theology's diversity in approach and perspective is highlighted.

I get angry when evangelical leaders show more concern for protecting the powerful at Sovereign Grace Ministries than protecting vulnerable children.

Nevin is also of ecumenical interest at a time when evangelical Protestants are asking if the Reformation is over.

Not exact matches

De La Rosa herself became evangelical: «When I have a daughter,» she says, «we're going to skip the tampon and go straight to the cup.»

The sixth person on the list is Terry Jones, a Florida evangelical Christian pastor who in 2010 raised an international outcry when he threatened to burn copies of the Koran.

Financial advisor and evangelical Christian Dave Ramsey probably wasn't expecting this much pushback when he shared a piece contrasting the habits of the rich with those of the poor.