Sentences with phrase «evangelical church even»

Our own evangelical church even began to talk about fasting during Lent.

The Alliance of Evangelical Churches even pledged to take action against Christians who «distort [Jesus» gospel]» by not pursuing reconciliation, stating:

Not exact matches

The NAE and other evangelical elites, often speaking for churches, have pivoted into a larger menu of political issues, even though lacking unequivocal scriptural and church teaching, and, no less important for Protestants, lacking consensus or even majority support from their own claimed constituencies.

Times are changing even in the evangelical church.

A candidate isn't going to get anywhere with most conservative evangelicals if they support a woman's right to chose, or if the candidate supports strict separation of church and state, and maybe even opposition to teaching Creationism is going to lose their vote.

Instead what we see is that people either leave religion altogether or look for a church that is even stricter in telling them what do do, hence the success and growth of Islam and many evangelical churches.

There are no liturgical and non-liturgical wings, even though some members of liturgical churches identify as evangelicals.

Evangelical protestantants always have been a widely diverse group, even within the confines of specific churches.

He was rabidly anti-institutional in a manner similar to the anti-institutionalism one finds in Evangelical revivalism, Pentecostalism, and even someone like H. Richard Niebuhr who insisted that the true church was an organic movement, not an institution.

Even though I still love my evangelical family, specifically the Vineyard church, for the most part I am safer not being a part of it.

i do nt think you can simply label «x church» as the solution to the church planting, evangelical explosion, or even evangelical upkeep of America.

I generally write with an evangelical audience in mind, but as others have rightly noted, it's not just evangelical churches losing young adults, but also Catholic churches, Orthodox churches, and Mainline Protestant churches... sometimes at even higher rates.

That speaks well of their character, well even of the Wheaton community, and well of some of the progress that's being made within the evangelical church.

In conclusion, the above suggestions — Indoctrination, Incarnation, and Influence — are public, personal and practical ways for contemporary evangelical Christians to confront ongoing racism within our culture and even within the church.

Google «Tea Party Jesus» and click «images» for a quick view of this on target parody of the «Jesus» far too often presented, even in evangelical churches, to tell the truth.

Few of the Church Fathers even mention it, and it seems that the only group that loved John as much as the evangelicals now do were the gnostics, and we know what the early Church did to them.

Thus did Newman's view of development pose one final, necessary challenge: the need to take seriously the institutional Church, a notion alien to my evangelical world, where a «high» view of the Church typically meant little more than attending morning and evening services on a Sunday.

Even if we can not pray for some of these goals with much affirmation — even if we find ourselves praying for the salvation of liberals before Christ returns, or the redirection of evangelical social concern to its proper sphere of evangelism and world mission, or the disappearance of the electronic church — God will answer our prayers, with corrections if necessary, and will either change our minds or the minds of those for whom we are prayEven if we can not pray for some of these goals with much affirmation — even if we find ourselves praying for the salvation of liberals before Christ returns, or the redirection of evangelical social concern to its proper sphere of evangelism and world mission, or the disappearance of the electronic church — God will answer our prayers, with corrections if necessary, and will either change our minds or the minds of those for whom we are prayeven if we find ourselves praying for the salvation of liberals before Christ returns, or the redirection of evangelical social concern to its proper sphere of evangelism and world mission, or the disappearance of the electronic church — God will answer our prayers, with corrections if necessary, and will either change our minds or the minds of those for whom we are praying.

The Holiness reform impulse is largely evaporated, and often in the recent identification with the «evangelical» world even repudiated as inappropriate for a properly «spiritual» and «evangelistic» church.

Oh, also, just to add, even though the LDS church has worked hard to legitimize itself in the eyes of many americans, the evangelical christian fundamentalists consider the LDS teaching such a grave perversion of the christian faith (holy trinity issue, extra bible (Book of Mormon), etc.) that it drives them absolutely nuts whenever Mormons try to pass themselves as «christians.»

Just because pro-choice advocates make these arguments does not mean that courts (the same courts that are ready to overrule Roe) are likely to discover abortion rights under a statute that does not even mention abortion and that was enacted with the support of pro-life groups like the National Association of Evangelicals and the Mormon Church.

Claiming authority primarily as a «historian,» Lindsell adduces a string of quotations to support his position and then devotes the larger and more controversial part of his book to detailing the supposedly modern declension from this stance in the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, among the Southern Baptists, at Fuller Theological Seminary, in the Evangelical Covenant Church, and even among the members of the ETS (the Evangelical Theological Society, whose members are required to subscribe annually to a single statement — that «the Bible alone, and the Bible in its entirety, is the Word of God written, and therefore inerrant in the autographs»).

Even the independent churches and radical evangelical groups remain recognizably within the tradition and usually preach a «strong and even pristine Christian message.&raEven the independent churches and radical evangelical groups remain recognizably within the tradition and usually preach a «strong and even pristine Christian message.&raeven pristine Christian message.»

In matters of some significance, such as congressional «representation» of religious groups, the enormous and disproportionate visibility of the oldline bodies continues (in 1984, 67 Episcopalians, one Pentecostal); the «losses» have been to Roman Catholic and Jewish representation, not noticeably to right - wing or even «evangelical» Protestantism (Albert Menendez, «The Changing Religious Profile of Congress,» Church and State [January 1983], pp. 9 - 12; Christianity Today, «Members of Congress Hold Ties to 21 Religious Groups» [January 18, 19851, pp. 61 -64) Even in the membership sweepstakes it appears that the NCC bodies may do reasonably well in the 19even «evangelical» Protestantism (Albert Menendez, «The Changing Religious Profile of Congress,» Church and State [January 1983], pp. 9 - 12; Christianity Today, «Members of Congress Hold Ties to 21 Religious Groups» [January 18, 19851, pp. 61 -64) Even in the membership sweepstakes it appears that the NCC bodies may do reasonably well in the 19Even in the membership sweepstakes it appears that the NCC bodies may do reasonably well in the 1980s.

Moreover, even an evangelical consensus should not be viewed as an end in itself, but rather as a tool for the church to use in the strengthening of its faith and life.

For most evangelicals, the Catholic Church has been understood as the enemy of the Gospel and even as the Antichrist.

But some religion and politics experts say that she exemplifies an evangelical feminism that is producing more female leaders in Christian nonprofits, businesses, and education and politics, even as more traditional gender roles prevail in evangelical homes and churches.

Women's roles in the church most likely would have progressed much more quickly (and certainly would not have left us where things currently are in say the Catholic church or a fundamentalist or evangelical church); we don't even need to get into talking about the Inquisitions.

Even though Pentecostals are much more closely related theologically to Evangelical churches than Mainline Protestants, the Mainline churches were the first to integrate Pentecostal theology and practice into their churches.

Evangelicals who promote a warped view of American history in an effort to undo the court rulings on church - state affairs ignore the fundamental point that no country can be called Christian, even though Christians are in it.

In 1975 there appeared in Germany a book entitled: The Berlin Ecumenical Manifesto, on the Utopian Vision of the World Council of Churches, edited by Walter Kunneth and Peter Beyerhaus.34 The book attacked not only the World Council of Churches but also the Lutheran World Federation, World Student Christian Federation, certain Roman Catholic groups, the German Evangelical Kirchentag, Taize, and to some extent even Lausanne.35 According to H. Berkof, the common thread through all the articles in the book was the desire to demonstrate that the World Council of Churches no longer sought to proclaim the Gospel throughout the world, but strove rather for a purely horizontal, social and political, humanization and unification of mankind by means of religious pluralism and syncretism.

In the denomination to which I once belonged, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), more traditional pastors are beginning to wake up to the fact that, even if the civil government does exercise some restraint in compelling pastors to act against conscience, it is hardly the case that their denomination itself will.

«Not only in Europe and North America but equally even in Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America, we find countless Christians with the same strongly held suspicions of the World Council of Churches or at any rate the same type of evangelical faith».37 Then Berkof makes an important observation.

A consultation convened by the WCC in cooperation with the Innere Mission of East Germany's evangelical churches issued this statement: «We affirm the continuing need for institutions in which the most severely disabled experience help, protection and care, even while at the same time we call for the integration of the disabled and the able - bodied within the local congregation.»

There are even substantial numbers of Episcopalians, Lutherans, and others from «mainstream» churches whose theology is evangelical.

It had never occurred to me how significantly the modern church — particularly the modern evangelical church — glorified and catered to extroversion, and how uncomfortable (even marginalized) introverts can feel in their own faith communities.

Even after SGM has appealed to the First Amendment to avoid an investigation into the matter, Challies and many evangelical leaders with ties to SGM have either remained silent about the lawsuit or defended SGM, often characterizing those who have come forward with concerns about abuse as «divisive» or «sowing disunity and strife» in the Church.

It is the evangelicals who power massive communities like Willow Creek in Chicago and the Vineyard Fellowships with all their huge appeal to the young, as well as what is claimed to be the largest single congregation not just in London but even in Europe - Kingsway International Christian Church.

Even evangelical churches claiming faithfulness to the Bible implicitly communicate to their members that their own expressed needs are sovereign and strive to meet them above all else.

Where I may be forbidden from even speaking at a conservative evangelical pastor's church, I may have a significantly louder P.A. system than he does online.

As Novak wrestles with the complexity involved even in defining social justice, evangelical leaders think they can handle the big issues of the day in a way that helps the church in trite servings of 140 characters or less.

The significant proportion of evangelicals within the ecumenically organized denominations has not — even if some still hope to do so — countered the drift to theological pluralism, to missionary and evangelistic retrenchment, to social - action priorities, to debatable hierachical commitments that some aroused church members and many of the clergy resent.

NOTE: «Hour of Power» is identified as an independent evangelical program, even though Robert Schuller is an ordained Reformed Church of America clergyman, because the denomination has no association with the program.

Even if Barth, Bultmann and Tillich, beyond their notable impact on seminaries, had little influence on the temper of the universities and on the mood of the churches, might not evangelical Christianity, I wondered, break out of its evangelistic halter?

But I suggest that Protestants who are fascinated with Mary be careful not to expect us to adopt titles for Mary like Mother of God or Mother of the Church, when those terms, even when technically correct, come with connotations that some of us believe, with Barth, necessitate «an Evangelical protest.»

He admits that this evangelical and catholic vision of the Lutheran church is «a minority position» — indeed, with Mattox, Marshall and Hütter converting, it is even more so.

This is also in part because evangelicals today are reading the early Church Fathers and the Reformers and appropriating aspects of the great tradition that would have been unthinkable even a generation or two ago.

However, it is most unlikely that many women, or even any woman, raised to the purple in the Church of England would be from its Evangelical wing.

The American Church today, even the evangelical ones are really no different than the Catholic cChurch today, even the evangelical ones are really no different than the Catholic churchchurch.

The town is crowded with churches and even an evangelical Episcopal (can you imagine) Seminary.