Sentences with phrase «evangelical groups»

This may come as a surprise to some, but I'm more comfortable speaking in front of evangelical groups than progressive, emerging groups.

That's because the conservative evangelical group's lobbying expenses weren't high enough for the law requiring donor disclosure to even apply.

At the same time the denomination has continued to strengthen its relationship with other evangelical groups.

But the constant controversies were by no means merely battles in a war of attrition between the growing evangelical groups.

Their arguments were bolstered by the declining church - membership statistics for their denominations as compared with the growth figures of more evangelical groups.

However, liberalism does not produce offspring in local churches, where growth is always among evangelical groups.

Eventually, it developed into the sort of vision that typified many evangelical groups in the late twentieth - century as they moved beyond addressing individual needs to address communal issues as well.

It may also be helpful to take cues from evangelical groups that are actively recovering more traditional, liturgical worship and practice in their communities.

Many evangelical groups filed amici briefs in their favor.

They point out that Christian evangelical groups already have infiltrated the lives of America's children through after - school religious programming in public schools, and they appear determined to give young students a choice: Jesus or Satan.

The chasm created by this history within evangelical groups that define their existence in terms of the Fundamentalist - Modernist controversy will continue to cause folks like Piper to be cautious about what Lecrae and Tisby are doing.

Editor's note: As aid organizations struggle to reach Nepal residents reeling from an earthquake 16 times more powerful than Haiti's 2010 disaster, evangelical groups including World Vision, Convoy of Hope, and Samaritan's Purse are racing to help survivors as aftershocks continue.

That nostalgia is also operating in the recent alliance of evangelical groups with right - wing politics which has linked religion with patriotism and yesterday's family values with Christianity.

CNN: Christian groups allege threats to religious freedom in anti-Chick-fil-A campaigns The nation's biggest evangelical group said Monday that religious freedom is threatened by American mayors who say Chick - fil - A is not welcome in their cities because of the restaurant leader's opposition to gay marriage.

The nation's biggest evangelical group said Monday that religious freedom is threatened by American mayors who say Chick - fil - A is not welcome in their cities because of the restaurant leader's opposition to gay marriage.

As usual, missionary activity followed trade, and, even as most evangelical groups remained focused on evangelizing China, some began ministry in earnest in the former «hermit kingdom.»

But that kind of clarification of my understanding of biblical teaching for evangelical groups has usually been a preface to a plea for sexual humility.

Coincidentally, over the same period, many American evangelical groups have adopted a near myopic emphasis on expiation in their discussions (and presentations) of the gospel message.

But despite joint confession of the A.D. 325 Nicene Creed, relations with Ethiopian evangelical groups have traditionally been poor.

A recent joint statement by a number of Italian evangelical groups indicts the Roman Catholic Church as an «imperial» church and its call for evangelicals to «unionist initiatives that are contrary to Scripture and instead renew their commitment to take the gospel of Jesus Christ to the whole world.»

The recent Christ at the Checkpoint Conference has a number of evangelical groups concerned about waning support for the nation of Israel among Evangelicals (see here and here).

Russia's evangelical minority, roughly 1 percent of its population of 143 million, finds itself living and serving in the East - West tension between its nationalistic government and the outside evangelical groups that support its gospel work in the heavily Orthodox country.

He has always had his critics.Some evangelical groups asked why he involved Catholics in his work.

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

Evangelical groups meet regularly at the academy, and evangelical chaplains, who see the military as both a mission field and a stronghold of Christian values, outnumber their non-evangelical counterparts 12 - 1.

(UPDATED) SBC is first of three evangelical groups seeking racial unity after Ferguson and Charleston.

(She admits that small mainline churches are overrepresented and evangelical groups underrepresented.)

The groups that compose conservative Christendom are marked by distinctive theological stances and sociological dynamics as significant as those that distinguish other church traditions or those that separate evangelical groups from mainline denominations.

A number of high profile evangelical groups have promoted immigration reform in recent years, including the National Association of Evangelicals and the National Latino Evangelical Coalition.

University student members of the «Cornerstone» evangelical group won court permission to meet on a state university campus in Missouri.

Ben Lowe, a 28 - year - old organizer of the young evangelical group, went to the debate to «bear witness to the lack of climate science» in the race.

This organization just characterizes itself as a «Leading Evangelical Group.»

(Watch how issues divide evangelical group)

The majority are Pentecostal, the fastest - growing evangelical group in Latin America.

Gordon Dirks (Calgary - Elbow): Missing in Action during the contentious Gay - Straight Alliances debate, Mr. Dirks» connections to socially conservative Christian evangelical groups is a liability for the PC Party among moderate and liberal voters.

Three conservative evangelical groups within the Church of England are combining strengths to show unity... More

Other evangelical groups, including Concerned Women for America, want the act scrapped altogether.

Adding to the political tension is that it falls on the very same weekend as the annual March for Life in Washington — the country's largest demonstration against abortion and increasingly a destination for evangelical groups.

In Taegu, Pun Hui came in contact with just such an American evangelical group.

Many Evangelical groups may modify their outlook on the future and adapt is to the so called Mayan prophesies.