Sentences with phrase «evangelical churches»

Many evangelical churches in Russia currently experience discrimination under unevenly applied laws.

Tony Perkins, Family Research Council president (chair) Ryan Anderson, Ph.D., Heritage Foundation fellow Tony Beam, North Greenville University vice president David Benham, entrepreneur Jason Benham, entrepreneur Ken Blackwell, former US Ambassador to the UN for Human Rights Teresa S. Collett, University of St. Thomas professor Jim Garlow, Skyline Church in San Diego, California Mark Harris, First Baptist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina Jack Hibbs, Calvary Chapel Chino Hills, California Harry Jackson, International Communion of Evangelical Churches Richard Lee, There's Hope America president Paige Patterson, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary president Everett Piper, Oklahoma Wesleyan University president Jay Richards, The Catholic University of America economics professor Dr. Steve Riggle, Grace Community Church in Houston Samuel Rodriguez, National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference president Kelly Shackelford, First Liberty Institute president Carol Swain, Vanderbilt University professor

Perhaps he wants to win favor with the Castro regime so that the Catholic Church in Cuba can avoid the persecution experienced by Protestant evangelical churches on that island?

Some churches, especially the Roman Catholic church and Conservative Evangelical churches, maintain the traditional teaching that sexual intercourse should take place only between a married couple.

Affinity, a group of evangelical churches in the UK have responded to this case, saying they agree that prayer should not be filmed.

Affinity, a fellowship of evangelical churches and individuals, are encouraging Christian organisations to support them and sign a petition by ourreligiousfreedom.org to prevent the potential persecution of religion in the future.

For example, 35 percent of Americans describe themselves as «born again or evangelical Christian,» according to the Pew Research Center's 2014 US Religious Landscape Study, and 25 percent identify with evangelical churches.

In fact, I think there are a lot of progressive, mainline churches that could benefit from a shot of evangelicalism, and a lot of evangelical churches who could benefit from a shot of progressivism.

Time in 1966 said that the postwar religious revival was over, just a few years before the explosion of attendance at evangelical churches.

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.»

Those youth — more comfortable with television than with reading in many cases — often find themselves more at home in the new evangelical churches.

I also attended services in evangelical churches — a drastic change of scenes from the Episcopal services and fellowships I had been frequenting in Boston.

In fact, most evangelical churches rejected Pentecostalism until the mid-1980s, when the Third Wave began to have its impact.

Much could be said here, but let me briefly suggest five principles to consider about the issue of homosexuality and evangelical churches:

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.

How about our media begins monitoring the active GOP campaigning that takes places in evangelical churches?

Maybe it's starting to become more common, but I still think it's unusual among Evangelical churches.

This was partly a function of limited organization among evangelical churches.

In that post, I listed five principles to consider about the issue of homosexuality and evangelical churches.

This movement began inside Evangelical churches, though, and emphasizes the work of the Spirit in the life of the believer just as Pentecostal and charismatic churches do.

20 evangelical congregations during the period 1966 to 1970, they found that over 70 percent of the new members in these evangelical churches came from other evangelical churches, largely because of geographical or social mobility, while 20 percent of the new members were children of existing members; two groups which the mainline churches found difficult to hold.

(5) The authors concluded that it seems likely that relatively few new members of evangelical churches come from outside the Christian community....

At the same time Niebuhr said that the evangelical churches, coupling pietism and perfectionist illusions, are tempted to disregard the moral ambiguity in the life of the redeemed.

In America, he states, the majority of evangelical churches take at least a nominal stand against the use of alcohol; but the move is on to water down this position.

Many people, including some disillusioned former members of mainline churches, found these answers within the evangelical churches.

From a strictly sociological perspective, the growth of South Africa's new evangelical churches is striking; their theological belief system and concomitant social endeavors, fascinating.

Evangelical churches were sparsely decorated because it was thought that simplicity focused devotion, and God had little concern for outward appearances.

EVERYTHING in evangelical churches gets blown out of proportion and people who quote the bible ALWAYS do so for THEIR convenience.

I really think expository preaching is an idol worshipped in evangelical churches.

On the other hand, pentecostally oriented evangelical churches, such as the Johannesburg - based Rhema Church movement, as well as the African indigenous churches, such as the Zion Christian Church (whose worldview is an amalgam of Christian teaching and traditional African religious expression), have experienced an explosion of membership.

Nevertheless, what distinguishes South Africa's new independent evangelical churches is their dual mission of evangelism and racial reconciliation.

The new independent evangelical churches are also conspicuous for their commitment to economic empowerment.

For the remainder, such as most of the new independent evangelical churches, their distaste for liberation theology and their understanding of the church's proper role in the public arena derive not from «an ideology of the national security state» but from sincerely held beliefs about theology, politics, and economics.

Uncomfortable with a politicized gospel, South Africa's independent evangelical churches are currently struggling to come to grips with what it means to be «in the world, but not of the world.»

«Evangelical churches and interest groups have been able to generate that kind of activity,» Green says.

Despite concerns that the Trump era has caused a crisis for evangelical churches, evangelicalism will move forward.

While such abuse once thrived in the darkness of secrecy, silencing, and cover - ups, the Internet Age has helped shine a light on the problem of abuse not only in the Catholic Church but also among evangelical churches and ministries.

The gospel is referred in most messages in most evangelical churches, but it is not central.

I googled «evangelical churches in Vancouver», and began emailing each one.

But some in - the - pews evangelicals, interviewed at a pair of Iowa evangelical churches on a recent Sunday, admitted to an anti-Mormon bias.

«Christians therefore have the right to deny entry to any religious department officer who requests entry into a meeting at a house, church premise, or any private property used for Christian worship and activities,» wrote Eugene Yapp, secretary - general for the National Evangelical Christian Fellowship (NECF), in an advisory to the nation's nearly 2,500 evangelical churches.

One who did was Andrea Zaki, president of the Fellowship of Middle East Evangelical Churches.

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

In Evangelical churches, the why of the virgin birth receives less attention than the fact of it.

And the fact was that the visual arts were largely exiled from the spiritual life of the evangelical churches.

This new ease in Zion, this friendly familiarity with the Lord God of the cosmos, can be discerned in old - fashioned liberal no less than new - fangled evangelical churches.

Evangelical churches are the last bastian of pure racisim.

On the other hand, ordained women in ACNA and in other evangelical churches may well decide that their own vocations are better pursued back within Church of England - related Anglican churches, and one may see a strengthening of conservative female leadership there.

He said it's true, in general blacks feel more welcome in white churches - PARTICULARLY evangelical churches - than whites are made to feel welcome in black churches (although ministers themselves would love to have more white or hispanic attendees... but the parishioners in these black churches often disagree with that philosophy.

Already in Nebaj, a second generation was emerging in the evangelical churches, of adolescents who were more interested in acquiring sunglasses than imitating their parents.