Sentences with phrase «as evangelistic»

first, I don't see hell fire and brimstone preaching used as an evangelistic tool by churches.

However, within a short time ministers across America seized upon the radio medium as an evangelistic tool.

While the SBC and several of its entities nearly folded during the depression years, the denomination experienced its greatest growth after World War II as evangelistic efforts, the postwar religious revival, and the baby boom swelled the membership rolls of most congregations.

One problem, I think, is that we see the arts as an evangelistic luxury.

Philip moved from waiting on tables in Jerusalem to serving in Samaria as evangelistic front man for Peter and John, proclaiming the Messiah, performing signs, amazing the people and cutting into Simon the Magician's business.

Not exact matches

Islam is reportedly even more aggressively evangelistic than Christianity and recruits Christians even as Christians try to recruit Muslims.

As Allen recognises, the change of the last quartercentury is not only due to papal leadership under John Paul and Benedict but is joined and reinforced by a resurgence of new publications, renewal movements and catechetical and evangelistic programmes strongly attuned also to young Catholics.

As we experience this love and meet Jesus in his answer to our soul's question, Lord, what do I need from you right now, our evangelistic life becomes us asking Lord, what does this person need from you right now?

Mr Song claimed he also reluctantly cancelled evangelistic programmes such as the Alpha course following pressure from by Iman Mohamed - a claim refuted by Alpha, which said the course stopped running at HMP Brixton prior to the imam's arrival.

In fact, only after Romney showed up for a meet and greet with Billy Graham in North Carolina earlier this month did the website of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association erase a reference to Mormonism as a «cult.»

This evangelical attitude came as a shock, for initially I had thought that the movement was simply a «Jews for Jesus» extension of previous Hebrew Christian evangelistic organizations that also had been opposed by both Christians and Jews.

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The Holiness reform impulse is largely evaporated, and often in the recent identification with the «evangelical» world even repudiated as inappropriate for a properly «spiritual» and «evangelistic» church.

As Billy Graham hands over the leadership of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association to his son Franklin, Andy Peck asks how he will be remembered.

As political parties wrangle over immigration, Steve Bell of Interserve argues Christians should embrace its evangelistic opportunities

Over 23,000 people attended the JustOne evangelistic event at the Emirates Stadium in London last month, with 1,743 recorded as making a response to the gospel.

Evangelistic meetings, evening non-sacramental worship, outdoor preaching (as in London at the Tower and in Hyde Park), and similar times and places may very well include an address whose main purpose will be the presentation of the reality of Jesus Christ to those who otherwise would not know about him.

The Christian Century for December 22, 1976, carried a discerning article by Mark Juergensmeyer on «The Fading of an Era,» in which he vividly described the departure of the «last evangelistic missionary couple» from the Punjab state of north India and saw that departure as signifying the end of the «great missionary era of the...

The Gospel of John is often seen as «the only evangelistic book of the Bible.»

As president of the Chicago YMCA for four years, he championed evangelistic causes such as distributing tracts all over the city, and he held daily noon prayer meetingAs president of the Chicago YMCA for four years, he championed evangelistic causes such as distributing tracts all over the city, and he held daily noon prayer meetingas distributing tracts all over the city, and he held daily noon prayer meetings.

As a student worker and an apologist I think we can safely add another several hundred evangelistic talks and Bible studies on the crucifixion.

Billy Graham's Evangelistic Association can disassociate itself from the truth that Mormonism is a cult all they want to support Romney, but I know the truth about Mormonism, Scientology, and the other «cults» that they themselves recently identified as such.

The former is not, as is commonly assumed, an evangelistic method, but a comprehensive teaching strategy for church planting.

He tried to take his evangelistic campaign to Spain instead, but, as even children know from the familiar story of the whale, he wound up in Nineveh after all.

While the loss of nearly 4,600 baptisms was not as steep as last year's drop, the continued decline (full stats below) is still enough for LifeWay Christian Resources president Thom Rainer to tell Baptist Press, «I am grieved we are clearly losing our evangelistic effectiveness.»

But the analysis in Reveal, which surveyed congregants at Willow Creek and six other churches, suggested that evangelistic impact was greater from those who self - reported as «close to Christ» or «Christ - centered» than from new church attendees.

In the classical sense revival is not, as some of our American brothers would regard it, a series of evangelistic meetings, but rather a phenomenal sovereign intervention from God which starts in the Church, often leading to profound repentance and fresh encounters with God.

Insofar as the anointing of individuals is central to Pentecostal missionary and evangelistic activities, what about the church's corporate witness on issues related to peace and social justice?

CNN: Billy Graham site removes Mormon «cult» reference after Romney meeting Shortly after Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney enjoyed cookies and soft drinks with the Rev. Billy Graham and his son Franklin Graham on Thursday at the elder Graham's mountaintop retreat, a reference to Mormonism as a cult was scrubbed from the website of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.

«Bigness» is, moreover, a «powerful evangelistic tool «28 and provides the resources necessary for effective programs of worship and ministry.29 The local church is here viewed as a mechanism with the capacity for greater or lesser efficiency in doing the work of God.

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Dr. Wheeler envisions from an evangelistic background, the transformation of humanity through relationship with Christ, as per Biblical tradition and Christian experience, in a process - relational mode.

Dr. Clinebell takes a practical look at the evangelistic - authoritarian approaches of the rescue mission and the Salvation Army as they seek to help the alcoholic.

This desire is tied up with our humanity, with our embodied existences as sexual beings, with our being made in the Image of God: It is creational, evangelistic, and self - giving.

Immigration becomes an evangelistic opportunity when it gives us a love for immigrants as human beings (without caricature) and teaches us to have compassion for them (including their spiritual condition), as we would for anyone in need of the gospel.

The letter was signed by prominent evangelical figures such as Franklin Graham, the president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, and Paula White, President Donald Trump's spiritual adviser and a Florida pastor.

As I reflect on the wisdom dispensed in these nugget - size units, I wonder whether such signs fairly represent the teaching that goes on in their churches, or whether they are evangelistic ploys based on the principle that you begin by giving people something helpfully nonthreatening and then, once you've caught their interest, hit them with the gospel.

Hromadka of Czechoslovakia used to speak of the credibility of the evangelistic mission of the church as dependent upon the total life of the church, that is to say, it depends upon the way in which the church makes its prophetic mission of defence of human personhood and peoplehood in society and state and the ability of the church to reconcile diversity within its fellowship of divine forgiveness and become a source of reconciled diversity in the larger society.

In this sense, we can regard these occasions of instruction as being in their own way an evangelistic opportunity in the parish.

But as Jan Harris pointed out in Christianity Today (April 5, 1993), «One of the biggest beneficiaries of Protestant evangelistic activity in Latin America is the Catholic Church itself.»

should have been the one to «inherit» the Billy Graham Evangelistic Society mantle, as it were.

In fact anti-slavery and evangelistic campaigns were (at least initially) considered by the missionaries as separate issues.

As 2014 draws to a close we've also chosen to look back 60 years to when Billy Graham's first evangelistic mission shook the UK.

Harris quotes a poll taken after a 1992 evangelistic campaign in Costa Rica, for example, which showed that 80 percent of the 5,000 people who said they changed religions as a result of the campaign were back in the Catholic Church within five months.

What denominational leaders want most from their presses — greater revenues and materials specific to the denomination's «own» programs — strongly suggests that they view Protestant renewal chiefly as an organizational matter: build a stronger organization, one with increased financial resources and more evangelistic «team spirit,» and decline will be arrested.

But, and my primary point for this article, we also have a local evangelistic challenge as well.

Bishop Azariah of Dornakal, in theologically justifying the rejection of the reserved minority communal electorate offered by Britain to the Christian community in India, spoke of how the acceptance of it would be «a direct blow to the nature of the church of Christ» at two points — one, it would force the church to function «like a religious sect, a community which seeks self - protection for the sake of its own loaves and fishes» which would prevent the fruitful exercise of the calling of the church to permeate the entire society across boundaries of caste, class, language and race, a calling which can be fulfilled only through its members living alongside fellow - Indians sharing in public life with a concern for Christian principles in it; and two, it would put the church's evangelistic programme in a bad light as «a direct move to transfer so many thousands of voters from the Hindu group to the Indian Christian group» (recorded by John Webster, Dalit Christians - A History).

I began to ask, «Could I discover a set of characteristics of effective evangelistic youth ministries no matter the community context, and if I could, would that set of characteristics actually distinguish the youth ministries as unique?»

If we pursue these eccesiological motives, the church will not be an organized closed community marked by rigid boundaries as at present, and competing with religious communities but a congregation of believers meeting for spiritual fellowship around the Word and the Sacraments, meant to equip them for Christian living, struggles of justicefor the people and evangelistic mission in religiously pluralistic or secular social economic and political institutions.

The Declaration says of itself: «It is commended to God's people everywhere as an expression of evangelical commitment and as a resource for study, reflection, prayer, and evangelistic outreach.»