Sentences with phrase «evangelical congregations»

But there has been ferment in evangelical congregations in recent decades calling for a warrior kind of Christ - one that cuts down sinners with a flaming sword - that kind of thing.

The Tribunal Supremo de Elecciones (TSE), the Costa Rican institution in charge of running the elections, has already condemned the Catholic Church and the Federation of Evangelical Congregations for overstepping their boundaries and meddling in politics.

Ross sees the low liturgies of many evangelical congregations as based on the idea that you can emphasize liturgical order or the regeneration brought about by the Holy Spirit, but not both.

«It seems to me that most evangelical congregations make a sharp divide between the sacred and secular realms,» says Lindsay, «so that church is the last context where you'll see women in ordained roles.»

Still, Jesus did bless the meek but, for the life of me, I really don't see them represented in most evangelical congregations.

Barton once declared to a large evangelical congregation in Ohio, «The culture war in this countly is tied at halftime.

Chen said more Asian - Americans are also joining traditionally white evangelical congregations.

In 1987, Peter Gillquist, a former leader in Campus Crusade for Christ, and 200 others in a single evangelical congregation made national headlines when they were chrismated (or confirmed) into the Antiochian Orthodox Church.

Building on a mega scale: The rise of megachurches is most pronounced among evangelical congregations in the Southeast and Southwest, but they can be found anywhere in the country.

As we, his family, felt the sweet sensitive boy of his childhood slip through our fingers we gladly prostrated ourselves at the altar of anyone who claimed wisdom — first and foremost our local evangelical congregation (more on that later).

Formerly, the only link between Cuban evangelical congregations and the North American Christian laity had been an ultra - liberal church bureaucracy whose liberation theology rhetoric had now come to sound extremely dated and passe to Cubans, with the result that communication had become rather disjointed between Cuban postrevolutionary Christian revivalism and American church bureaucrats.

It stands in contrast to the warehouse - type buildings which tend to house large evangelical congregations today, including many Vineyard churches.

I suspect that the growth of many evangelical congregations has more to do with how members of those congregations relate to each other than with what sort of theology gets preached from their pulpits.

For the Evangelicals it's hard to understand their claim that Mormons are a cult since each of the Evangelical congregations exist because the Minister has a cult following.

I have some sympathies for the complaints folks of the generation my wife and I represent frequently express about «contemporary worship» in evangelical congregations.

My wife and I were on the leadership team of an evangelical congregation.

By his 20s he was searching for a new church and ended up at Arvada Covenant Church, an evangelical congregation in a Denver suburb.

Matthew Soerens, director of church mobilization for World Relief, tweeted about Monday's decision, noting that disproportionate number of Salvadorans in evangelical congregations and the high number of TPS recipients who are lawfully employed (over 90 percent of men and 80 percent of women).

Does this «new breed» exist equally in Catholic and Protestant circles, in mainline and evangelical congregations, in black and white settings?

Actually some evangelical congregations fit the description of a cult more so than mormonism, since the former often have very charismatic and dogmatic leadership than you will find in the mormon (LDS) church.