Sentences with phrase «by a missionary on»

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TQM was demonstrated on a grand scale by Japanese industry through the intervention of W. Edwards Deming — who, in consequence, and thanks to his missionary labors in the U.S. and across the world, has come to be viewed as the «father» of quality control, quality circles, and the quality movement generally.

He hoped to reach a remote tribe, thought to be one of the last on Earth to have no contact with the outside world, but was discovered by a Christian missionary worker at a remote airstrip in the heart of the country where roads have been cut off because of tribal fighting.

What I have to wonder is, if we, as a Church, trust God to work and bring people to Him, or if we feel like we have to «help» by providing all these material possessions (which in the end are meaningless, the money spent on them might be better spent on improving the community, providing food for hungry, support for ministers and overseas missionaries).

What we meant to model was the sending of one of our number to be a foreign missionary — to learn a new language, to understand a local culture, to sacrifice the amenities of affluence and to live knowing that he or she is always being watched by seekers — while the rest of us stay here as lifetime local missionaries, learning to speak the language of the unchurched, understanding secular culture, sacrificing the amenities of affluence and living as a «watched» person in a society that is skeptical of Christian spirituality until it sees the real thing on display.

No, you are not directly responsible for the Spanish Inquisition, the thousands (or millions) of women killed during the various witch hunts, the millions killed by missionaries, the millions killed by Hitler, the suffocation of science, the persecution of free thinkers..., but you did sign on with the same group that IS responsible for all of that.

Jesus sent the disciples on a missionary journey by telling them to go.

On Tuesday, the missionaries are due to have an audience with Francis, followed by a special Mass with him at St Peter's Basilica.

Religion News Service: Mormon missionary applications soar by 471 percent Just two weeks since Mormon President Thomas S. Monson announced that young men could go on full - time missions for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints at age 18 (down from 19) and young women could go at 19 (down from 21), the Utah - based church has seen applications skyrocket from an average of 700 a week to 4,000 a week.

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.

It is also strange that he quotes the letter to his curate, Bloxam, in 1841 on the conversion of England by missionaries going barefoot and being pelted and trampled on, and does not make the connection with Blessed Dominic Barberi.

Not a single person cared for by the Missionaries speaks on camera.

A few men on missionary boards would lose their positions by taking such a stand, but they would hasten the unity of the church and the conversion of the world.

Movements such as de-colonization, the rise of Communism — especially the expulsion of missionaries from China by the Communists — and the attempt to vindicate Human Rights culminating in the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) have direct and indirect impact on mission understanding.

This is how Andrews commented on the translation by Peet, a Malayalam scholar among the Travancore missionaries, on another missionary's lesson to a group of Pulayas: «I am afraid not much of the good advice has been understood.

The great missionary God expresses his love for the world he has created by sending his Son, who reveals the character of that sending through his death on the cross.

With these observations about the religion of the Pulayas let us move on to look at the communication of the Gospel by the missionaries.

Though the legend, reported by Eusebius, that Christ himself has sent missionaries to King Abgar of Edessa is based in reality on the conversion of a different Abgar at the end of the second century, it is nonetheless true that the region of Edessa had been evangelised by the Apostle Thomas has some foundation of historical fact.

While many of these charts were helpful, such as the parallels between Acts and the letters of Paul, and the chart on Paul's missionary journeys, I did not find the charts about all the Men and Women mentioned by Paul to be necessary.

My parents went against the grain by living not on a missionary compound, but in Korean neighborhoods.

Can you think of anything much finer that could be said of anyone than was said of St. Francis Xavier by a companion on one of his terrific missionary journeys?

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...

Missionaries had to pay attention to the faith as it was transmitted to and appropriated by new believers rather than rely on scruples that stemmed from the doctrinal disputes of Europe.

As a missionary hardly a day went by when I didn't get the opportunity to chat to someone about the work Jesus did on the cross.

Monica Besra, a mother of five, tells TIME that on September 5, 1998 — a year to the day after Theresa died — she was writhing in pain from an abdominal tumor at a home, run by the Missionaries of Charity.

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.

You can learn more about and even interact with missionaries through Natalie's experiences by following her on Twitter here.

I could go on and on about the many heroic missionaries I know who have never been called a «missionary» because they never crossed a sea, but who will, I believe, be praised by Jesus when they stand before Him, for accomplishing more in His Kingdom than many of those who currently receive praise, honor, and glory for being «missionaries.»

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.

Serious discussion on the unity and mission was started in the ecumenical movement with the declaration drawn up by the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches at its meeting in Rolle, Switzerland in 1951.23 One of the main subjects on the agenda of the Committee was: The Missionary and Ecumenical Calling of the Church.

His personal experience as an agricultural missionary in Africa had prepared him to see the damage done by imposing Western - style agriculture on the African landscape.

Missionary work on the frontier was carried out by uneducated preachers who, in the eyes of many, were incapable of preaching true religion or restraining the wild passions of the rough, unruly frontier folk.

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

As Leslie Newbigin pointed out, the problems posed for missions by the rise of the younger churches, the end of colonialism, and the development of inter-church aid on a massive scale were questions about the forms and patterns of missionary action.

It was the conviction at the World Missionary Conference at Edinburgh that the goal of carrying the Gospel to the world could best be achieved by concentrating on this common purpose and excluding doctrinal and ecclesiastical differences from considerations.

By way of contrast, the Rev. Norman Dewire, the chief program coordinating executive for the United Methodist Church, pointed out that «the national United Methodist Church runs on five cents of each $ 1, supports 750 missionaries, 900 short - term missionaries, curriculum and worship materials, the largest network of private colleges in the United States, one hundred retirement homes, and the recruitment and training of ministers plus all communication materials.

Based on a true story first told in an ESPN magazine feature, Queen of Katwe tells the story of a Christian missionary (played by David Oyelowo), who teaches Uganda children living in slums to play chess.

The Churches of Christ have insisted on leaving missionary work to the initiative of the local church, and any joint efforts are typically coordinated by the elders of a large or particularly active congregation.

This pressure is compounded by the Mormon emphasis on evangelizing: How can you be an effective missionary if you're depressed?

According to Acts 13:1 - 3, Paul and Barnabas were commissioned for their missionary journey by prayer and the laying on of hands.

The Christian affirmations on the worldwide missionary responsibility of the Church will be credible if they are authenticated by a serious missionary engagement at home.

... The failure to indigenize has been largely due to the fact that the new churches have been organized by the missionaries who most often transplanted their own denominational structures, resulting in the new church's full dependency on the missionaries - almost in everything.

Evangelical and fundamentalist mission agencies have grown in proportion, while mainline bodies have focused more on assisting indigenous ministries, supplying social services, lobbying for social justice through political channels, and even turning the cultural conduit around by sponsoring reverse missionary programs.14 Viewed from only the American context, it appears that mainstream Protestantism has suffered a serious decline in its missionary efforts.

An even more serious problem is the unconscious assumption on the part of some missionaries that not only is their gospel «the gospel,» but that their mission is to «bring» it to others by whatever means available.

Indeed, today much missionary work carried on by Americans or Western Europeans in the non-Western world, emphasizing individual salvation rather than a transformed way of life, may be only the proclamation of a foreign divinity.

Church growth people attempt to apply to the American scene the scientific principles of church growth as developed by Donald McGavran, based on his 30 years of missionary work in India.

From 1850 onwards, CMS Missionary reports and journals contained information on the conditions of the Pulayas in Travancore, providing a particularly rich body of source material on slavery Hawksworth and George Matthan, two untiring champions of the Pulaya cause, presented the «unparalleled» conditions of the Pulaya slaves by highlighting the inhuman treatment by the landlords, and the poverty and misery of the Pulayas.

In his article on «Bhakti Marga,» in Hastings» Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics he mentions that «in the year AD 639 the famous Indian king Siladitya of Kanauj, a patron of the Bhagavatas, received a party of Syrian Christians, headed by the missionary Alopen, at his court.»

Theirs was a theology which was a strong critic of the Augustinian position on Sin and Grace, and on human nature, which was imposed on the Indian Church later by the Latin missionaries.

The spiritually deprived missionary becomes a stunt man or woman bent on getting God and neighbor's attention by outrageous gestures of sin or sanctity, deep plunges of doubt, or Icarian flights of faith.

Late on Wednesday the body of law student - turned - missionary, Ed McCully, was identified by Quichua Indians who knew him.