Sentences with phrase «world evangelization»

The campus consists of five primary structures, dominated by the four story World Evangelization Center, the original offices built on the site and completely renovated in 2005.

The imperative for Christian unity, to which ECT bears witness, is directly related to the task of world evangelization.

Among the 4,000 leaders gathered in South Africa's Cape Town for the Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization, their empty seats signified the Chinese church's challenges in engaging world missions.

It was fostered during long years of association with him while serving on the Board of Directors of William Carey International University; and while supporting his leadership in the A.D 2000 movement to complete the task of world evangelization.

Based on a definition in «The Willowbank Report of a Consultation on Gospel and Culture,» (Wheaton, IL: Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization, 1978), p. 7.

Leaders, in the organic view, have none of the singular authority given by mechanists to leaders of growing churches, who are «motivated by the assurance that they have understood the revealed will of God for world evangelization and that they are attuned to what God expects to accomplish through them.

Paul outlined the plan of world evangelization.

The International Congress on World Evangelization was held in Lausanne (Switzerland).

But in one area, our position is unequivocal - in our commitment to the Gospel, as we understand it, and the task of world evangelization.

A follow - up conference ten years later in New Orleans urged charismatics and Pentecostals to work together on world evangelization.

However, as Billy Graham stated at Lausanne's International Congress on World Evangelization, while efforts at social justice are important, they are «not our priority mission.»»

Schaeffer created much consternation among fellow evangelicals by threatening not to appear at the rostrum of the International Congress on World Evangelization which convened in July of 1974 in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Moreover, as it warned in an editorial on the 1974 International Congress on World Evangelization in Lausanne, evangelism must not be confused with the Christian responsibility for genuine social concern.»

In July 1974, 2,700 evangelical Protestants from 150 nations gathered for the first International Congress on World Evangelization in Lausanne, Switzerland.

In 2004 he led a study group on reconciliation for the Lausanne Forum on World Evangelization, which met in Thailand (see the groups paper, «God's Mission as Reconciliation,» at www.

They were brought into sharp contrast by the two «world evangelism» conferences sponsored just a few weeks apart in 1980: the meeting of the WCC Commission on World Mission and Evangelism in Melbourne in May, with the theme, «Your Kingdom Come,» and the Consultation on World Evangelization, sponsored by the Lausanne Committee, in Pattaya, Thailand, in June, with the theme «How Shall They Hear?»

Not exact matches

Here we find the pope's great worry: At precisely the moment for the world's great evangelization and the great manifestation of love, the devices by which the world has been prepared — economic and technological — are excluding the charity and denying the truth that «judge and direct» human development.

As the Church celebrates the Resurrection for fifty days, the Church also ponders the first evangelization: the primitive Christian community, in the power of the Spirit, brings the surrounding Mediterranean world the history - shattering news that Jesus of Nazareth, having been Continue Reading»

The vibrant American Church became fractious: Many priests and religious abandoned their spiritual callings for the world; some theologians dispensed with their obligations to work with the Magisterium; evangelization suffered; loyalty to Church teaching was rejected in favor of a misguided notion of «conscience;» and dogma and truth were repudiated.

Thus, from the outset the term «New Evangelization» combines the commitment of allbaptised in society and in the world for the clear witnessing of the redemption of Christ.

We live in an increasingly post-Christian Western world, which presents exceptional challenges for evangelization.

Not only is this world invisible to the authors, they are also apparently unaware of how big an impediment «Christian» music is to the evangelization of musicians who hold C — Pop in professional contempt.

The same holds true for the Pope's call for the evangelization of the world and the re-evangelization of the West.

As the Church celebrates the Resurrection for fifty days, the Church also ponders the first evangelization: the primitive Christian community, in the power of the Spirit, brings the surrounding Mediterranean world the history - shattering news that Jesus of Nazareth, having been raised from the dead, has been constituted Lord and Savior for the forgiveness of sins.

Chilean Pentecostalism shares the basic characteristics of the Pentecostal identity: an emphasis on evangelization oriented to conversion, the baptism of the Holy Spirit, the church as a charismatic and healing community, the belief in a spiritual world, and the anticipation of the Second Coming of Christ.

This is the beauty that we can see with the eyes of faith, and evangelization in this culture that denies transcendence means spreading this «sacramental» way of seeing the world around us.

They faced them but countered by saying that if the first generation of Christianity could accomplish so much, then certainly they could, under Christ, accomplish the evangelization of the world in their generation.

The purpose of the S.V.M. was to enlist students for foreign mission work, and its slogan, «The Evangelization of the World in This Generation,» spoke of their zeal and determination.

In introducing the report, William Lazareth acknowledged the help received from the reports of the Bangkok Conference on Salvation Today, of the Lausanne Congress on the evangelization of the world, and of the Synod of Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church on evangelization in the modern world.

Finally, in October 1974 the Third General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops met in Rome to consider, «Evangelization in the Modern World».

The report called the churches to begin the evangelization of the world at the level of local congregations, in the local and ecumenical dimension of its life: worship, sacrament, preaching, teaching, healing, fellowship and service, witnessing in life and in death.70

He wants to see them do five things: «Initiate a focused approach to the claims of Islam; make a political and cultural analysis of the unique impact of the Islamic evangelization of black males; approach Islam on theological and evangelical levels; assess the geopolitical and strategic implications of Islam in Africa and South Asia, since the fortunes of black people in the U.S. are informed by what happens to blacks elsewhere In the world; and, mount a major effort to investigate the success of Islam in prisons.

It includes both formation through evangelization and enculturation — the processes by which we are converted and initiated into the church and its tradition and thereby come to acknowledge ourselves as a people in covenant with God — and education, or those processes of actualization that help us to live out our baptism by making the church's faith more vital, conscious and active in our lives; by deepening our relationship to God; and by realizing our vocation in the world so that God's saving activity may be manifested in persons and in the church.

An American Methodist called John R. Mott published a book in 1900 entitled The Evangelization of the World in this Generation, and this became a widely used slogan.

Displaying the enthusiasm of a time committed to the evangelization of the world in one generation the Movement engaged in a highly organized form of evangelism, carrying out a planned campaign by outstanding businessmen in several major cities.

Nearly a hundred years ago, at the end of the 19th century, John R. Mott, one of the «fathers» of the modern ecumenical movement, looked at the world and of the coming 20th century and confidently spoke of the «evangelization of the world in the present generation».

Last summer in San Antonio 500 leaders in Hispanic ministry — clergy, religious and laity — from 110 Catholic dioceses gathered to discuss their situation and pledge their commitment to a new evangelization of the professional world.

Complicating the task of evangelization is the dearth of hard data about the Hispanic - American world.

Under the slogan «The Evangelization of the World in This Generation» the Student Volunteer Movement enlisted thousands from colleges, universities, and theological seminaries and spread to the British Isles and the Continent of Europe.