Sentences with phrase «at evangelistic»

Mack Wolford, who was 44, was bitten by his yellow timber rattlesnake at an evangelistic event in a state park about 80 miles west of Bluefield, in West Virginia's isolated southern tip.

When a person becomes a Christian at an Evangelistic Crusade, what is the first thing we teach them about Christianity and following Jesus?

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.

Crusade evangelists believe it is okay to use compelling and persuasive techniques to get people to come forward at an evangelistic event, if it results in the person saying a prayer or making a decision to follow Jesus.

When a person becomes a Christian at an Evangelistic Crusade, what Gospel do they hear, and what do they learn about Christianity and following Jesus?

In recent years, studies have shown that only 6 % of people who «come forward» at an evangelistic crusade are any different in their beliefs or behavior one year later.

Could you help me with letting me know what studies are showing «that only 6 % of people who «come forward» at an evangelistic crusade are any different in their beliefs or behavior one year later.»

Not exact matches

«Attendees will have an opportunity to respond to the Gospel Evangelistic message, be encouraged by Fort Bragg Chaplains and trained counselors from off post Churches and on post Chapels, and then be offered ongoing Biblical Spiritual Resiliency training at our military chapels and local churches,» the information sheet said.

Take a look at the many charges against Evangelistic Christianity in the military — these events haven't been devoid of attempts to proselytize or really voluntary at all.

In recent years, a number of Christian leaders have rightly called lethargic and half - hearted Christians to quicken their pace, to dedicate more of their time, talents, money and efforts to serving the Lord in the local church and in evangelistic outreach at home and abroad.

If you would like for me to come & preach an evangelistic meeting for you, email me at: [email protected].

Working at the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association in NC, I encountered people who called the prayer line believing they were possessed.

Jitsuo Morikawa gathered around him a group of imaginative younger Christians (including Harvey Cox, at one time), and with them he initiated a program they called Evangelistic Life Styles.

It would seem fair to say, however, that in general the Salvation Army represents evangelistic therapy at its best.

There are many points at which the Emmanuel approach was superior in theory and practice to the evangelistic approaches.

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.

Several of the allegorical stories are from the my own life, but I also poke fun at some of the popular evangelistic techniques and strategies endorsed and practiced by many Christians in today's churches.

Even Billy Graham has come out against evangelistic enterprises aimed solely at Jews.

Pat Holmes was a 16 - year - old Londoner with no church background when she attended an evangelistic meeting at the Harringay Arena in 1954.

For Billy Graham in 1957 to invite participation at his New York City evangelistic campaign from representatives of all willing churches — thereby, opening up a wide array of ecumenical possibilities for former fundamentalists, new - style evangelicals and many mainline Protestants — was indisputably an important action.

Already skilled at using radio to reach large audiences, they became adept at incorporating contemporary modes of popular entertainment into their evangelistic efforts.

I remembered lines from songs that we had sung with endless monotony at «evangelistic meetings»: «I surrender all.»

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.

Moody believed music would be a valuable tool in his evangelistic campaigns, so when, in 1870, he heard Ira Sankey sing at a YMCA convention, he convinced Sankey to give up a well - paying government career to join him on the sawdust trail.

It's still the same song made famous at Billy Graham's evangelistic rallies by worship leader George Beverly Shae.

Mrs. McKelvey looked at me sternly and said, «The only true missionary is an evangelistic missionary, you know.

Readers will grow weary at times of Martin's repeated descriptions of the workings of each major crusade, but the detail builds an interesting picture of how the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association became a «revival machine» of remarkable efficiency and 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 particular it has been found that in most cases co-operation in the great evangelistic task stops at the point where pastoral care is needed for the building up of the Church.

The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) held a press conference on Wednesday evening at the Billy Graham headquarters in Charlotte to announce details of funeral plans and to talk about Rev Graham's final moments.

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.

Adventures in Fishing (for Men) pokes fun at some of the popular evangelistic techniques and strategies endorsed and practiced by many Christians in today's churches.

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

The Book of Ruth suggests less an outward evangelistic thrust than a quiet and loving ingathering, exhibiting at a personal level the later grand vision of Isaiah, that in «the latter days... many peoples shall come... that [God] may teach [them] his ways» (Isa.

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).

Nick Hall, PULSE founder and student advisory team leader for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, says, «At our events, we're seeing thousands of students giving everything for Jesus.

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.

Franklin Graham, president and CEO of Samaritan's Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA), was in China at the invitation of the State Administration for Religious Affairs, the Three - Self Patriotic Movement and China Christian Council, and the China Association of International Friendly Contacts when the May 12 earthquake occurred.

At Explo» 72, the evangelistic Woodstock that drew packed houses to the Cotton Bowl, the biggest hand went to Roger Staubach (whose message was that «God has given us good field position»; now we can understand why Landry sends in the plays).

In 1998, Carlton (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is at the height of his ministry at Higher Dimensions Evangelistic Center, one of the largest churches in Tulsa, Okla..

Particularly at present, looking at both the big and small pictures, I think that there are good reasons to be wary of cult leadership and evangelistic styles.