Sentences with phrase «among evangelical churches»

Maybe it's starting to become more common, but I still think it's unusual among Evangelical churches.

This was partly a function of limited organization among evangelical churches.

While such abuse once thrived in the darkness of secrecy, silencing, and cover - ups, the Internet Age has helped shine a light on the problem of abuse not only in the Catholic Church but also among evangelical churches and ministries.

Not exact matches

And it is true that I have rejected the church institution as currently practiced among the extreme Evangelical Protestants in the US.

At the same time, we recognize that, during the past five hundred years, the Holy Spirit, the Supreme Magisterium of God, has been faithfully at work among theologians and exegetes in both Catholic and Evangelical communities, bringing to light and enriching our understanding of important biblical truths in such matters as individual spiritual growth and development, the mission of Christ's Church, Christian worldview thinking, and moral and social issues in today's world.

Among evangelicals who attend church regularly, only 31 per cent supported Donald Trump while those who rarely attend church, the evangelicals - in - name - only, favoured Trump at much higher rates.

Maybe these things are common knowledge among those in Evangelical circles, but for many like me on the outside, when we see a certain pastor or denomination singled out in this way, it looks a lot like the same internal striving that's been going on in the Church since Peter and Paul argued over circumcision.

Time and again, the assumption among Christian leaders, and evangelical leaders in particular, is that the key to drawing twenty - somethings back to church is simply to make a few style updates - edgier music, more casual services, a coffee shop in the fellowship hall, a pastor who wears skinny jeans, an updated Web site that includes online giving.

Time and again, the assumption among Christian leaders, and evangelical leaders in particular, is that the key to drawing twenty - somethings back to church is simply to make a few style updates — edgier music, more casual services, a coffee shop in the fellowship hall, a pastor who wears skinny jeans, an updated Web site that includes online giving.

There is perhaps another movement among Evangelicals to force all people that are married - to - a-divorced partner out of church membership, or at least out of church leadership. . .

It lives today among heirs of Dutch Seceders and in some Scandinavian flowings into the Evangelical Covenant Church and the Evangelical Free Church denominations.

This only confirms my suspicion that, particularly among evangelicals, the debate regarding women's roles in the home, church, and society is far from over.

The opinion becomes stronger among white evangelicals who attend church weekly, 88 percent of whom said employers should be able to refuse services.

What a privilege to set out into the wilderness from among the Spanish oaks and the Guadalupe river, what a gift to be equipped for the journey by the saints of an old German town and the prayers of the earnest at the big evangelical church and the friendship and love of a few good people who loved Jesus and loved you.

White evangelicals were slightly less firm on whether transgender people should be required to use the public restroom of their birth gender (69 %), though again, the opinion was stronger among weekly church attendees (76 %).

Higgins, who is the director of worship and outreach at South City Church in St. Louis, issued a call to action, and at the very least, she sparked a much - needed discussion among evangelicals.

While a majority of the evangelicals who voted in 2016 supported Trump, there can be no doubt that his candidacy and campaign caused a sharp divide among Christian voters — if you need proof, just scroll through Facebook or Twitter or bring up the new president at church.

Among Lutherans because the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is a new jurisdiction of uncertain leadership that gay activists have been able to exploit to their advantage.

Claiming authority primarily as a «historian,» Lindsell adduces a string of quotations to support his position and then devotes the larger and more controversial part of his book to detailing the supposedly modern declension from this stance in the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, among the Southern Baptists, at Fuller Theological Seminary, in the Evangelical Covenant Church, and even among the members of the ETS (the Evangelical Theological Society, whose members are required to subscribe annually to a single statement — that «the Bible alone, and the Bible in its entirety, is the Word of God written, and therefore inerrant in the autographs»).

However, liberalism does not produce offspring in local churches, where growth is always among evangelical groups.

In the case of the current debate among evangelicals over woman's place in the church and marriage, however, the challenge of conflicting viewpoints has brought what otherwise might have remained implicit methods of interpretation to light.

Here again we are faced with the realization that evangelical theology is at its best an «art»; it is an entrusting to words what has been creatively perceived in the dialogue among Scripture, church, and world.

Miller is a popular author who is in demand among multiple audiences: evangelicals, progressives and «emergent» church folks who don't easily fit into any category.

Evangelical Protestant, Orthodox, Roman Catholic and mainline Protestant churches appear to confront unique situations, though perhaps the greatest crisis is being experienced among the mainline bodies (my own tradition).

A provocative pamphlet from the Lutheran Church in America («Youth and Evangelical Outreach») shows an understanding of the current mentality among youth that bodes well for designing strategies for reaching them.

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Reuters and others have found that church attendance distinctly decreases evangelical support for Trump, who has the least - religious supporters among the GOP candidates.

Now, I completely agree that among evangelical writers, pastors, and speakers, the «emerging church» as a cohesive movement is clearly a thing of the past.

Jerry Falwell and other figures in the religious New Right have capitalized on the widespread dissatisfaction among evangelicals by preaching the need for a complete overhaul of the church - state relationship, but they are hardly alone in their endeavors.

That includes evangelicals (among whom he holds a 55 % to 2 % lead over Clinton); non-evangelical born again Christians (he has a 49 % to 31 % lead among them); those who attend a Protestant church (47 % to 32 % lead); adults who claim to have a biblical worldview (57 % to 30 % margin); people who believe that absolute moral truth exists (48 % to 37 % preference for Trump); and those who consider themselves to be theologically conservative (60 % for Trump, 28 % for Clinton).

The claim that «justification by faith alone» is the articulus stantis et cadentis ecclesiae (the doctrine by which the Church stands or falls) is a distinctly minority position among Protestants who call themselves evangelicals.

By 1960 there was a growing distrust of the World Council of Churches among many of the Evangelicals.

They feared that the integration might, lead to the proselytizing activities of the evangelical missionaries among the Orthodox, and also lead to the alteration of the basis of the World Council of Churches.

In this context, the Congress called everyone to encourage and assist in the organization of evangelical fellowships among churches and missionary societies at national, regional and international levels.

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Among people lauding the TNIV New Testament in press releases were popular evangelical author Philip Yancey, Pastor Ted Haggard of New Life Church in Colorado Springs, and Adam Hamilton, senior pastor of the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, Kansas, one of the fastest growing congregations in the denomination.

Among voters who attend services at least monthly, only 16 percent of white evangelicals, 22 percent of Catholics, and 5 percent of white mainline Protestants said that their churches provided information on voting, the election, or specific candidates this year.

The divide among evangelicals who supported or opposed Trump has forced a conversation on how the church can build unity going into his presidency, whether evangelicals should part ways, and whether the label evangelicalshould be retained.

The earlier efforts among the Lutherans to unite were further enhanced when in 1960 The Evangelical Lutheran Church (Norwegian), the American Lutheran Church, and the United Evangelical Lutheran Church united to form The American Lutheran Church, the third largest group of Lutherans in the United States.

Third, in view of scattered signs among some evangelicals of an awakening concern about national and world problems, can all of us in churches — liberal as well as conservative, laity as well as clergy — have the grace to seize every opportunity for dialogue, to the end that we may begin to realize that behind our pluralism lies a God - inspired hunger for a better, more just world?

On the other hand, self - identified evangelicals are linked among themselves by a set of elective affinities, while belonging to a potpourri of Protestant denominations that display only a limited and variable concern about their own existence in institutional separation from one another, let alone from the Roman Catholic Church.

Ron Sider, though he has worked primarily among the «evangelicals,» is from a CHA church; he was the major force behind the «Chicago Declaration» and the earlier «Evangelicals for McGoevangelicals,» is from a CHA church; he was the major force behind the «Chicago Declaration» and the earlier «Evangelicals for McGoEvangelicals for McGovern.»

While the Lutherans were learning to get along among themselves, the German Reformed and Evangelical Churches united into an organic Church in 1934.

Among them are liberal and conservative Roman Catholics, some Southern Baptists, some evangelicals, some Presbyterians, some Mennonites, some Calvinists, some Episcopalians, some Lutherans (not many), some from the Church of the Servant King (Gardenia, California), some liberal Protestants, some feminists and some liberationists.

In another study, conducted among members of a large evangelical church in the South, we were able to determine exactly who misreported their attendance.

Scot's newest book, Kingdom Conspiracy: Returning to the Radical Mission of the Local Church is already making waves, generating quite a bit of conversation online and among evangelical leaders and thinkers.

The role that multiethnic churches can play in healing America's racial tensions drew debate among evangelicals over the past week.

More than 4 out of 5 evangelicals (84 %), practicing Christians (85 %), and those who attended church in the past week (85 %) said there was a lot of anger and hostility among the different ethnic and racial groups in America today.

Among white evangelical weekly church attenders planning to vote for Clinton: 25 % support her strongly 75 % support her not strongly [Pew Research Center # 8]

For expressing my egalitarian views among evangelicals, I've been called crass, ugly names (not unlike the names Limbaugh called Fluke), dismissed as «emotional» and «whiny,» written off as a «just another liberal feminazi,» and declared a «threat» to the Church.