Sentences with phrase «as missionaries into»

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And yet this has been my experience and so I admit, I'm a bit wary now of outsiders coming into Canada as self - appointed missionaries to Reach Canada For Christ ™.

Lawsuits filed Tuesday in DeKalb County, Georgia, allege that Long used his position as a spiritual authority and bishop to coerce young male members and employees of his New Birth Missionary Baptist Church into sex.

In his service as missionary and later as director of the World Council's Theological Education Fund, he had encountered and dissented from the notion that redemptive Christian norms and ideas transform culture by being imported into or imposed on it.

When Constantine - Cyril and Methodius came as Christian missionaries to the Slavs in the ninth century, they translated not only the Bible but the Eastern Orthodox liturgy into Slavonic.

(2) Following a wave of persecution a number of Christian missionaries then carried the gospel farther afield, notably to Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch (Acts 11:19); at Antioch, the capital of Syria and a city which ranked with Alexandria as second only to Rome in size and importance, Gentiles were for the, first time admitted into the Church in large numbers, apparently without becoming Jewish proselytes in any full sense.

Once that infrastructure is in place, there is little doubt that the subject of world Christianity as the unique legacy of the modern missionary movement will make its long - overdue impact and channel back some of its revitalized energy into the necessary transformation of our preCopernican historical universe.

The problems in Africa, as stated in the Matthew Parris article, may be helped somewhat by Christian missionaries, but injecting «faith» into that continent is damaging, at least in the short term.

He discovered that the missionaries translated the Greek word philadelphia, «brotherly love,» into Luo as hera, and this experience caused him to protest, saying that «love» as the Bible explained it was absent from the missionaries» treatment of Africans.

Monastic missionaries, both women and men, would live among and educate the so - called «barbarians,» only later to give in to the tactics of a Charlemagne pressing the monasteries into strategies of Western empire - building, which, in turn, evoked ongoing reforms as wealth dulled and darkened a genuine Christian discipleship (CSP 1 - 43).

Four members of Long's New Birth Missionary Baptist Church - Anthony Flagg, 21; Maurice Robinson, 20; Jamal Parris, 23; and Spencer LeGrande, 22 - filed suit against Long and the 25,000 - member megachurch in September, claiming he used his position as their spiritual counselor to pressure them into sexual relationships.

It was in the period of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars, when England was threatened by the conflagration on the Continent, that such organizations as the London Missionary Society, the Church Missionary Society, and the British and Foreign Bible Society came into being.

The theater has received glowing reviews for its staging of such plays as Merchant on Venice, which turns Shakespeare's play about Christians and Jews into a story about Muslims and Hindus, and Golden Child, by David Hwang, about the cultural clash between Christian missionaries and the Chinese.

World gatherings of the Evangelicals, such as the Berlin Congress on Evangelism in 1966, the Wheaton Congress on World Christian Mission, also in 1966, and the Lausanne International Congress on World Evangelism of 1971, were seen by Winter and others as a response to the absorption of missionary concerns into the World Council of Churches.1

A converted church in a corrupt civilization withdraws to its upper rooms, into monasteries and conventicles; it issues forth from these in the aggressive evangelism of apostles, monks and friars, circuit riders and missionaries; it relaxes its rigorism as it discerns signs of repentance and faith; it enters into inevitable alliance with converted emperors and governors, philosophers and artists, merchants and entrepreneurs, and begins to live at peace in the culture they produce under the stimulus of their faith; when faith loses its force, as generation follows generation, discipline is relaxed, repentance grows formal, corruption enters with idolatry, and the church, tied to the culture which it sponsored, suffers corruption with it.

A major component lacking in this discernment of historical and current mission goals as they actually operated in practical situations is the consideration of the voices and actions of local people who came into contact with missionaries in each place.

So if I am going into a gang neighborhood as a missionary, I had better understand that cultures idea of the concept, respect.

interesting topic.A lot of damage was done in south africa by white missionaries.they didn't come to bring messiah they came to bring western culture into africa.there are so many beautiful things about indigineous cultures that have been robbed and destroyed.so as a follower of messiah i tend to stay as far away from «missionary» work and i just try to listen to people's stories.

In the choice of this central theme, the missionary movement came into the same stream of thought as two other branches of the ecumenical movement, namely, the Faith and Order, and Life and Work movements.

«Does Forefront spend as much time developing Christians into missionaries as it does reaching out to non-Christians?»

By 1850, Chilean alfalfa was grown in California, and it is believed that missionaries brought alfalfa into other southern states, such as Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona.

Opening a savings account that has higher saving rates, such as the Deseret First Credit Union «Mission Savings Fund,» would further encourage future missionaries to put money into savings.

I do not accept the transformation of my role as a lawyer into a missionary and enforcer.