Sentences with phrase «church as missionary»

In 1938, the International Missionary Council saw the church as a missionary church, as an indigenous church, and as a church centered on mission, and focused on God's mission.

In short, when loving witness escalates to a concern for justice, as it must in the maturing missioner, the church as missionary body of Christ will seem as threatening to the world as Jesus did in his original body.

Not exact matches

Among those who have been absent are members who grew up steeped in Mormonism, faithfully served as missionaries and have families still active in the church.

He refused to believe that Vatican II, the ecumenical council he had experienced as a powerful work of the Holy Spirit, could only lead to permanent incoherence and division in Catholicism; and by providing an authoritative interpretation of the Council, John Paul II's pontificate energized the living parts of the Church and made Vatican II the launch platform for the new evangelization and for the Church's rediscovery of itself as a missionary enterprise.

The Free Methodist Church USA issued a press statement confirming that the 71 - year - old — who has spent decades as a missionary — had been released, though it did not say whether or not a ransom was paid.

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).

You know, as a Missionary Baptist (and not of Eddie Long's so called churches) I couldn't agree with you more.

Why can't god do that on his own??? You believe he can (and does) throw up bright visible rainbows as messages all over the world almost continuously when he wants to, without any church leaders, or missionaries, or the bible's help.

The Protestant Episcopal Church of America then raised a general call to all Churches «which accept Jesus Christ as God and Saviour to join in conference following the general method of the World's Missionary Conference, for the consideration of all questions pertaining to the Faith and Order of the Church of 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.

As a writer and editor for Time, Conde Nast Portfolio, and Fast Company, he has compiled a portfolio that includes stories on megahit - making Swedish songwriters (a piece for which he went clubbing in Stockholm); James Bond (for which he stood on a Spanish beach and watched Halle Berry emerge from the waves over and over and over); undercover missionaries in the Arab world (he traveled to North Africa and went to church); and the decline of Christianity in Europe (he prayed).

As mystics and missionaries, heroic martyrs and courageous founders of religious orders, in public life as sovereigns or in quiet service in convent or school, the Church's women saints are testimony to the fact that Mother Church takes legitimate pride in her daughterAs mystics and missionaries, heroic martyrs and courageous founders of religious orders, in public life as sovereigns or in quiet service in convent or school, the Church's women saints are testimony to the fact that Mother Church takes legitimate pride in her daughteras sovereigns or in quiet service in convent or school, the Church's women saints are testimony to the fact that Mother Church takes legitimate pride in her daughters.

Wandering washed but barely lettered out of the wilderness, she is as close a figure to those the first Church missionaries to Europe found as I suspect American literature will ever see, or is capable of seeing.

Rather than seeing summer as a time to withdraw, members could use these months to devote some of their vacation time to sharing in missionary work projects, or at least visiting church mission projects near their vacation sites.

This study is limited to missiological thinking as expressed in the conferences and assemblies of the International Missionary Council and the World Council of Churches.

Sham Pearls for Real Swine by franky schaeffer wolgemuth & hyatt, 290 pages, $ 14.95 In 1948, a young American minister from the conservative Bible Presbyterian Church moved to Lausanne, Switzerland, to serve as a missionary to Europe.

The church needs to identify itself as a missionary of the sacred gospel of salvation.

In preparation for a missionary conference in Willingen (1 952), the Dutch missiologist J. C. Hoekendijk criticised the church - centred orientation of missionary groups which led them to define «the whole surrounding world in ecclesiological categories... The world has almost ceased to be the world and is now conceived as a sort of ecclesiastical training - ground» (Stransky, DEM 1991:688).

The church appears as the executor of missionary work, the centre from which all else radiates.

Christendom is indebted to the church at Antioch for conceiving of world missions as an obligation of the gospel and for devising the grand missionary strategy that gradually

The Creed, the Lord's Prayer, the Ten Commandments and «the explanation of them as contained in the Church catechism» were also invariably included in missionary instructions.35

This was the time when CWM, as a partnership of churches in mission, was born to give expression to a new missionary arrangement for a new era in mission.

Others in England, especially those in the Church Missionary Society, saw Africa as a place for their special concern.

Both the European missionary movement and the traditional Indian «Christian Theology of the 20th Century were rejected as metaphysical speculations having nothing to do directly with the history and existence of the marginalized majority within the Indian Church.

And, surprising to us, old - line Pentecostal groups — those started through missionary activity in the first half of this century — are often not as vital as charismatically inclined churches that were started in the past two decades.

The best among those Jews who decide to take that step are likely to end up as lonely and misunderstood missionaries, calling an unrepentant church to renewal through a recovery of its roots in the Hebrew Scriptures.

They argued that «as now constituted, the Council [for World Mission] represents only a very restricted understanding of the missionary task;... that it perpetuates the relationship of donor and recipient; and that it fails to give adequate place to the talents of every church in the cooperative enterprise».

Even when the minister begins as missionary to some people in the world he soon gathers a Church that claims his special attention; even when he begins as a shepherd of a separated flock he is bound to have relations to those who seem to be the wolves that prey upon it or the dogs that protect it.

The story centres around two new Mormon missionaries (Elder Price and Elder Cunningham) who are sent to Uganda to convert as many people to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - Day Saints as possible.

Bishop Long served as the Senior Pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in Atlanta.

By the end of the second century, missionary expansion had carried the church as far east as Bactria, what is now northern Afghanistan, and mass conversions of Huns and Turks in Central Asia were reported from the fifth century onward.

When as a child I visited Korea in 1935, I heard the missionaries of the Presbyterian Church debating the so - called Shrine Controversy.

(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.

In other words we in the West are too centered on how to get our individual churches to grow, primarily through attractional means, rather than seriously considering how to think as a cross-cultural missionary focused on reaching those who have no interest in attending our church functions.

In 2010 property developers in Shandong province were given formal approval to knock down a 19th - century church built by Anglican missionaries — despite it being part of The Three - Self Patriotic Movement and designated as a protected national historical landmark.

Great, evangelism is preaching the gospel, not coming to church, this can be done outside of church What if the people in church viewed themselves first and foremost as missionaries?

What if the people in church viewed themselves first and foremost as missionaries?

The missionary movement has arrived at maturity, and there is urgent need that the churches as well as the missionaries take account of it.

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.

Solomon's Porch is a Christian ministry that began as a local church and today calls itself a «holistic, Christian, missionary, community.»

Because it defines missionary activities as religious practices to spread a faith beyond its members, «if that is interpreted as the Moscow Patriarchate is likely to, it will mean the Orthodox Church can go after ethnic Russians but that no other church will be allowed to,» according to Frank Goble, an expert on religious and ethnic issues in the rChurch can go after ethnic Russians but that no other church will be allowed to,» according to Frank Goble, an expert on religious and ethnic issues in the rchurch will be allowed to,» according to Frank Goble, an expert on religious and ethnic issues in the region.

Asked for a wish - list of what might help to arrest the decline of the Church in its former heartlands, he is emphatic and seems to relish making a list... one which rather chimes with what many other thinking Catholics would offer: «1) strong, evangelically assertive bishops who know how to handle the media and can call the people of the Church to live out their vocation as missionary disciples.

GAFCON, a worldwide group of conservative Anglicans, has named Rev Canon Andy Lines as a missionary bishop who will cater for disaffected Anglicans who are unhappy with potential changes to Church teaching on sexuality.

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 Jansenist movement among Roman Catholics and certain sectarian strands in the Reformation churches have been prepared to say that such non-Christians are without God and without hope in this world; they have regarded those countless men and women as only what somebody once called «missionary fodder.»

Here again, as in the case of the monk - missionaries of the Roman Catholic and Eastern churches, it was chiefly those who were most earnestly devoted to the faith who offered themselves as missionaries and gave to the support of the societies.

Proposition 7: New Evangelisation as a Permanent Missionary Dimension of the Church It is proposed that the Church proclaim the permanent worldwide missionary dimension of her mission... to • evangelise those who do not know Jesus Christ; • [to support] the continuing growth in faith that is the ordinary life of the Church; • to [reach out to] those who have become distant from tMissionary Dimension of the Church It is proposed that the Church proclaim the permanent worldwide missionary dimension of her mission... to • evangelise those who do not know Jesus Christ; • [to support] the continuing growth in faith that is the ordinary life of the Church; • to [reach out to] those who have become distant from tmissionary dimension of her mission... to • evangelise those who do not know Jesus Christ; • [to support] the continuing growth in faith that is the ordinary life of the Church; • to [reach out to] those who have become distant from the Church.

The group - which created a missionary bishop to cater for disaffected Anglicans in Scotland, England and across Europe who are unhappy with the church's teaching on issues such as sexuality - made comments following Most Rev Justin Welby's criticism of the body at the recent Primates» Meeting on Friday.

She was joined by Bishop Eddie Long, senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Church in Georgia, where she served as an elder at the time.

Mr. Nuechterlein sounds uncomfortably like those who attacked Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger for being intolerant of other religions when he affirmed the unique fullness of the Christian revelation in Dominus Iesus As Ratzinger wrote, «The Church's constant missionary proclamation is endangered today by relativistic theories which seek to justify religious pluralism, not only de facto but also de iure (or in principle).»