Sentences with phrase «among evangelical denominations»
Leith Anderson, Appointee for Member, President's Advisory Council on Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Leith Anderson is the President of the National Association of Evangelicals, an organization formed to facilitate Christian unity, public witness and cooperative ministry among evangelical denominations, congregations, educational institutions and service agencies in the United States.
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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.
Some evangelical denominations, among fundamentalists and the Reformed, exercise real theological discipline.
(Ash Wednesday services are becoming more popular among other protestant and evangelical denominations as well.)
It lives today among heirs of Dutch Seceders and in some Scandinavian flowings into the Evangelical Covenant Church and the Evangelical Free Church denominations.
And according to a recent report by a special task force of pastors, the baptism drought in America's largest evangelical denomination — which counts 15.7 million members and 5.8 million Sunday worshipers — is worst among millennials.
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.
But the plain fact is that the growth in Protestantism since World War II has been mainly among these myriad evangelical movements, while the so - called «mainline» denominations are in free fall.
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.
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.
National Association of Evangelicals President Leif Anderson and Nancy Wilson, head of the and Metropolitan Community Church - the nation's largest denomination expressly serving LGBT Americans - are among the appointees to the panel, which was launched by President Barack Obama in 2009.
The AoG is a Pentecostal and evangelical denomination holding, among other things, the Divine inspiration of the Bible, the Trinity, the Deity of Christ, salvation through faith in Jesus Christ alone, the Baptism of the Holy Spirit as the believer's empowerment for witness and service, speaking in tongues as the evidence of that baptism, sanctification through the work of the Spirit, a church on mission, Divine healing for the sick available to believers, the return of Christ and a final judgment.
My background kept me sheltered from the deep mistrust that existed among some Christian denominations, and especially between some Catholics and evangelicals.