Sentences with phrase «by evangelical leaders»

Wait a minute, we're also told by our evangelical leaders that this musici is also for evangelism.

We welcome today's statement by evangelical leaders in support of immigration reform.

Recent novels by evangelical leaders say more about popular American Christianity than about the end times.

It was a view echoed by evangelical leaders, both right and left.

Two recent comments by evangelical leaders deserve comment.

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The luxury coach, which was carrying the Kentucky Senator and his entourage of family, staffers, and evangelical leaders from Jerusalem to a kibbutz in the Sea of Galilee, had been derailed by flash floods and rock slides in the West Bank.

A sprawling 44 - bedroom house surrounded by towering brick walls that was once the home base for polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs has been converted into a sober living center by Evangelical missionaries.

Christianity Today: Evangelical Leaders Split Over Violence Against Women Act The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) reauthorized by Congress Wednesday removes protections for immigrant women who are victims of violence.

A number of evangelical leaders with very large constituencies sharply criticized the declaration as a betrayal of the central Reformation belief in «justification by faith alone.»

All the added ritual and laws by the Catholic Church and politicized evangelical for example followed the footprint of the Jewish leaders of Jesus day that brought darkness, hate and division rather than unity and love.

And Amnesty International, in a report released earlier this year, said «repeated calls by the Supreme Leader and other authorities to combat «false beliefs» - apparently an allusion to evangelical Christianity, Baha'ism and Sufism - appear to have led to an increase in religious persecution.»

Mother's Day struck a resonant chord in the culture - with all those unnerved by women's suffrage and urban migration, with Protestants long familiar with the maternal ideals of evangelical womanhood, with business leaders (especially florists) who were quick to see the commercial potential, with politicians who still regularly voiced the Enlightenment precept that virtuous mothers were the essential undergirding of the republic in nurturing sons to be responsible citizens.

I myself am a survivor of multiple incidents of spiritual abuse by leaders in a range of evangelical, moderate, conservative, and fundamentalist churches and parachurch settings over the past 40 years.

It was because we were advocating for other victims of sexual assault within the evangelical community, crimes which had been perpetrated by people in the church and whose abuse had been enabled, very clearly, by prominent leaders in the evangelical community.

The ultimate reality that I live with is that if my abuser had been Nathaniel Morales instead of Larry Nassar, if my enabler had been [an SGM pastor] instead of [MSU gymnastics coach] Kathie Klages, if the organization I was speaking out against was Sovereign Grace under the leadership of [Mahaney] instead of MSU under the leadership of Lou Anna Simon, I would not only not have evangelical support, I would be actively vilified and lied about by every single evangelical leader out there.

Wheaton administrators spent several months preparing for a 2006 visit from Soulforce, a group aiming to change religious leaders» minds on gay issues that was co-founded by Mel White, who was a ghost writer for some evangelical leaders, including Pat Robertson and the late Jerry Falwell.

Fueled by a professoriate that embraces the same leftist agenda as that of their colleagues in the secular academy, these Christian professors are making great strides in reorienting the political leanings of the coming generation of evangelical leaders.

The search for the type of power that aligning with political candidates promises — and that some evangelical leaders seem to be seeking — is the same temptation that caused Christianity to be co-opted for political gains in the third century by the Roman emperor Constantine.

Recently, I joined evangelical leaders across North America including friends like Tim and Kathy Keller, Bill and Lynne Hybels, John Perkins, Ann Voskamp, Sandy Willson, John Yates, Max Lucado, Eugene Cho and many others, by adding my signature to this petition to our president.

In my judgment, shared by many, he was the most important leader of the evangelical revival of the eighteenth century.

They found that despite recent efforts by the movement's leaders to address the problem of racial discrimination, evangelicals themselves seem to be preserving America's racial chasm.»

But a recent study by the Center for Survey Research (CSR) at the University of Virginia for Stewardship Journal suggests that some significant differences are emerging between the leaders of evangelical relief and development (R&D) agencies and their donor constituencies.

The evidence for this phenomenon is incontestable: the influx of non «SBC evangelical scholars into Baptist seminaries; the changing of the name of the Baptist Sunday School Board to the more generic LifeWay Christian Resources; the presence and high profile of non «Baptist leaders on SBC platforms, e.g., the closing message at the 1998 SBC delivered by Dr. James Dobson, a Nazarene; the aggressive participation of the SBC's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission as an advocate for the conservative side of the culture wars conflict; new patterns of cooperation between SBC mission boards and evangelical ministries such as Promise Keepers, Campus Crusade for Christ, the National Association of Evangelicals, Prison Fellowship, and World Vision.

The nation's biggest evangelical group said Monday that religious freedom is threatened by American mayors who say Chick - fil - A is not welcome in their cities because of the restaurant leader's opposition to gay marriage.

The women's ministry leader was responding to the wave of Christian reactions to news that LifeWay Christian Stores had stopped selling books by Hatmaker — one of the biggest writers and speakers among today's generation of evangelical women — after she spoke out in support of same - sex marriage.

But many evangelicals wound up feeling betrayed by Carter's liberalism, and Reagan's courtship of first - generation Christian right leaders, as well as his conservative rhetoric on issues like abortion, sent hordes of evangelicals to the GOP.

During these crusades, Moody pioneered many techniques of evangelism: a house - to - house canvass of residents prior to a crusade; an ecumenical approach enlisting cooperation from all local churches and evangelical lay leaders regardless of denominational affiliations; philanthropic support by the business community; the rental of a large, central building; the showcasing of a gospel soloist; and the use of an inquiry room for those wanting to repent.

The idea behind Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory was simply for Balmer to travel around America and examine by way of interview «popular» evangelicalism (as opposed to that expressed by official evangelical leaders or media representatives).

I have just recently spoken to a prominient leader within the evangelical community in Scotland about such and his use of rhetoric, and misrepresentation of others and their views by straw man arguments.

Should I, as a Creole, mixed - race, African American, Evangelical leader sit quietly by, not saying a word about what has transpired in Ferguson and many other cities so that your white daughter would not feel compelled to speak out and the comfort of your reality would remain.

«After 30 years of the so - called conservative leaders who have been elected by evangelicals, none of them thought to advocate for the repeal of the Johnson amendment, giving evangelical leaders political free speech,» Jerry Falwell Jr., Liberty University president and early Trump endorser, toldTime magazine.

However, as one long - time evangelical leader told me, his community has also felt the continuing effects of cultural and social «intimidation» by the largely liberal and secular Oregon establishment.

One by one, more evangelical leaders are speaking out against Trump's sexually violent language.

But there was a time when many evangelical and conservative Christian men spoke loudly and clearly against sexual exploitation by a political leader.

ad is signed by dozens of Christian leaders, including evangelicals like David Beckman, president of the charity Bread for the World, and author Brian McLaren.

For example, at a breakfast conversation sponsored by the Emerging Women Leaders Initiative, women from main - line churches shared powerful words of hope and encouragement with evangelical women who struggle to have a voice in their traditions.

«The Nashville Statement» on sexuality, marriage, and gender identity, released last week by major Evangelical leaders, will hopefully foster constructive dialogue among Evangelicals.

Despite Pope Francis's unprecedented visit to a Pentecostal church and apology for past treatment of Pentecostals by Catholics, many Italian evangelical leaders remain concerned about how evangelicals in the United States (and other nations) are cozying up to the popular pontiff.

While 17 percent of American Christians openly identify with the movement, the «health and wealth» gospel gets dismissed and critiqued by most mainstream evangelical leaders.

He conjectures why leaders of larger churches feel less comfortable using the word evangelical: «As a church grows, the core becomes surrounded by larger concentric circles that Rick Warren called the «crowd» and «community».

«Outrage and panic are not the responses of those confident in the promises of a reigning Christ Jesus,» read a joint statement organized by the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) and signed by more than 100 evangelical leaders, including David Platt, J. I. Packer, Richard Mouw, Jim Daly, Al Mohler, and Ron Sider.

The One People Commission, begun by the Evangelical Alliance in 2011, has also sought to bring together national church leaders of all ethnicities to work together across racial lines.

A similar enterprise at the Evangelical Academy at Bad Boll, near Stuttgart, Germany, has made a significant start toward bridging the gap between the Church and the industrial worker by inviting representatives of the Trade Unions and Workers» Councils, including sometimes communists, to discuss the implications of Christianity, while on other occasions employers and Workers» Council leaders have met together for mutual discussion of the applications of the gospel to industry.

When you read the narrative, what Balmer means by Religious Right is really a coalition of leaders and organizations within the evangelical world who have sought to organize evangelical voters along a particular set of issues.

Some ugly and foolish thoughts expressed in slovenly language were put forth by President Ronald Reagan when, during a 1982 conference with some eastern Carribean leaders, he called Marxism a «virus»; when, in 1983, he labeled the Soviet Union an «evil empire,» telling the assembled National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, that communism «is the focus of evil in the modern world» and that «we are enjoined by Scripture and the Lord Jesus to oppose it with all our might»; and when, while conferring in 1984 with 19 conservative and religious leaders, he vowed to fight the «communist cancer.»

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

In 2012 the lines between the sacred and the profane will get even more blurry: Scientists will religiously maintain their search for the elusive God particle (they won't find it); evangelical sports superhero and Denver Bronco quarterback Tim Tebow will continue to be both an inspiration to the faithful and an object of scorn to skeptics (he will be watching, not playing in, the Super Bowl); at least one well - known religious leader or leading religious politician will be brought down by a sex scandal (let's hope all our leaders have learned a lesson from former Rep. Anthony Weiner and stay away from sexting); and the «nones» - those who don't identify with one religion - will grow even more numerous and find religious meanings in unexpected places (what TV show will become this season's «Lost»?)

Many female evangelical leaders, for instance, talk of being called by God to pursue professional careers.

The Gospel Coalition stood by them both, refusing to alter or take down the post, even after prominent and respected evangelical leaders — both men and women — asked them to take it down or at least amend the language.

The leaders of America's top evangelical aid groups and denominations urged Congress today to reject proposed cuts to foreign aid in a letter signed by more than 100 prominent Christians, including 2 of the 6 clergy who prayed at President Donald Trump's inauguration.