Sentences with phrase «evangelical circles when»
In 2004 Chalke's now infamous book The Lost Message of Jesus, co-authored with Alan Mann, caused huge controversy in evangelical circles when he compared God's punishment of Jesus on the cross for our sin to «cosmic child abuse».
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Zealous evangelicals who retain the anti-Catholic instincts of former days sometimes think that when their fellow Protestants begin to take an interest in the Catholic Church or to make sympathetic noises about Catholic beliefs, practices, and institutions, the moth has begun to circle the flame.
Maybe these things are common knowledge among those in Evangelical circles, but for many like me on the outside, when we see a certain pastor or denomination singled out in this way, it looks a lot like the same internal striving that's been going on in the Church since Peter and Paul argued over circumcision.
We are not using God's Word, the Bible, when trying to educate people, Christians and non-Christians, about what God has to say about caring for the poor, racism (a taboo subject in many evangelical circles), and articulating moral principles like the immoral budget proposed by Ryan - Romney as well as many other societal issues.
Imagine the surprise, then — in some circles the shock — when on March 29, 1994 the statement «Evangelicals and Catholics Together: The Christian Mission in the Third Millennium» was released in New York.