Sentences with phrase «evangelical church sense»

And I understand that this is not a «vision» in the typical, evangelical church sense of the word.

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It was consequential not merely because John Paul himself became the «singular embodiment of the trials, tragedies, and triumphs of the second half of the twentieth century,» but because he «reinvigorated the Church spiritually and intellectually, restoring a sense of the adventure of discipleship... and constantly reminding the entire Church that it did not exist for its own sake, but for its evangelical mission.»

Wesley was an evangelical in the sense that he undertook to supplement the activity of the Church of England with a program aimed at bringing the gospel to the masses of estranged people and helping them to transform their personal and social lives.

«There's a real sense of conflating Trump with evangelicals,» which doesn't go over well in liberal Vancouver, said Ken Shigematsu, pastor of Tenth Church, one of the largest and most diverse congregations in Canada.

We can get at that sense by following a distinction drawn by Thomas Guarino (the Catholic cochairman of Evangelicals and Catholics Together): «The distinction is between centrality to the foundation of the faith as opposed to the certainty with which the Church teaches it.»

Although understandable, «the longing for a tradition that will make sense out of our evangelical tower of Babel, the recoil from self serving exegesis, and the dissatisfaction with the miserable and stultifying parochialism of much evangelicalism» should not cause us to opt for an authoritative creed (and an authoritative church resting behind the creed).

'' This is also why as an evangelical we need to be more careful with flexing our «political» muscle to much or we will in a sense become state churches.»