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.
Among the
evangelical independent
churches (sometimes referred to as New Independent Churches or NICs), it is not unusual to find congregations numbering in the th
churches (sometimes referred to as New Independent
Churches or NICs), it is not unusual to find congregations numbering in the th
Churches or NICs), it is not unusual to find congregations numbering in the thousands.
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.
Among evangelicals, for example, belief in biblical literalism, church attendance, and identification with fundamentalism or other sectarian religious movements defined these groups, while among Catholics, we used traditional Catholic beliefs, church attendance and confession, and identification with «traditional» or «progressive» movements in the Ch
Among evangelicals, for example, belief in biblical literalism,
church attendance, and identification with fundamentalism or other sectarian religious movements defined these groups, while among Catholics, we used traditional Catholic beliefs, church attendance and confession, and identification with «traditional» or «progressive» movements in the C
church attendance, and identification with fundamentalism or other sectarian religious movements defined these groups, while
among Catholics, we used traditional Catholic beliefs, church attendance and confession, and identification with «traditional» or «progressive» movements in the Ch
among Catholics, we used traditional Catholic beliefs,
church attendance and confession, and identification with «traditional» or «progressive» movements in the C
church attendance and confession, and identification with «traditional» or «progressive» movements in the
ChurchChurch.
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 McGo
evangelicals,» is from a CHA
church; he was the major force behind the «Chicago Declaration» and the earlier «
Evangelicals for McGo
Evangelicals 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.