Sentences with phrase «evangelical mission by»

A truly ecclesial biblical scholarship supports the Church's evangelical mission by giving new power to Catholic preaching, Catholic catechesis, and Catholic evangelism.

Not exact matches

The ever turbulent waters of evangelicalism continue to be roiled by the declaration «Evangelicals and Catholics Together: The Christian Mission in the Third Millennium.»

Evangelicals who speak of «overseas mission» or «world mission» mean by these terms exactly the same thing they used to mean by «foreign missions» — spreading the gospel to the unreached.

The evidence for this phenomenon is incontestable: the influx of non «SBC evangelical scholars into Baptist seminaries; the changing of the name of the Baptist Sunday School Board to the more generic LifeWay Christian Resources; the presence and high profile of non «Baptist leaders on SBC platforms, e.g., the closing message at the 1998 SBC delivered by Dr. James Dobson, a Nazarene; the aggressive participation of the SBC's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission as an advocate for the conservative side of the culture wars conflict; new patterns of cooperation between SBC mission boards and evangelical ministries such as Promise Keepers, Campus Crusade for Christ, the National Association of Evangelicals, Prison Fellowship, and World Vision.

We Christians of the Third Millennium, guided by the Second Vatican Council and its great champions John Paul and Benedict, are graced to be witnessing a return of the papacy and episcopacy to the model of the age of the Fathers: boldly evangelical, passionately committed to mission, and with true humility inviting the men and women of our time to consider the proposal that truth is to be found in the person of Jesus Christ.

In the area of Gospel and culture, in contrast to the basic understanding of the Gospel as represented by western missions, which was to all intents and purposes a non - negotiable given, the evangelicals speak of the necessity for churches in the non-western world to find indigenous expression of Christianity in ways appropriate to people's culture and traditions.

The Evangelicals who spoke of sin in personal rather than in structural terms, and put great stress on personal conversions and growth in holiness, were very much upset by this new emphasis within the ecumenical movement on mission as humanization.

World gatherings of the Evangelicals, such as the Berlin Congress on Evangelism in 1966, the Wheaton Congress on World Christian Mission, also in 1966, and the Lausanne International Congress on World Evangelism of 1971, were seen by Winter and others as a response to the absorption of missionary concerns into the World Council of Churches.1

In the same year there was the Wheaton Congress sponsored by the Evangelical Foreign Missions association and the International Foreign Mission association.

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.»

18 The report from the «Thirty - Second Report of the Basel German Evangelical Mission in South - Western India,» is by Mr. Daimelhuber, a missionary, printed in the Report of the Basel German Evangelical Missionary Society for 1871 (Mangalore: Stolz & Reuther, Basel Mission Press, 1872), pp. 11 - 12.

Evangelical and fundamentalist mission agencies have grown in proportion, while mainline bodies have focused more on assisting indigenous ministries, supplying social services, lobbying for social justice through political channels, and even turning the cultural conduit around by sponsoring reverse missionary programs.14 Viewed from only the American context, it appears that mainstream Protestantism has suffered a serious decline in its missionary efforts.

As a loose coalition of conservative Protestants, evangelicalism has always been a fragmented movement held together by a common mission, and by organizations such as the National Association of Evangelicals.

And since evangelicals especially seen to be interested in enhancing church and mission by almost any honorable and available means, count on evangelicals to pounce on every secular finding and notion that shows potential for Christian baptism and service whether in church, school or mission.

The year 1804 was marked by the beginning of the British and Foreign Bible Society, and in 1810 Evangelicals created the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.

By contrast, many conservative evangelical Protestant groups are increasing their overseas mission work.

And some evangelicals have been skeptical of ChristianMingle's mission because it was founded by Jews.

Our mission is to educate and edify the Christian and to evangelize the non-Christian by ethically publishing conservative, evangelical Christian literature and other media for all ages around the world; and to help provide resources for Moody Bible Institute in its training of future Christian leaders.

The Covenant roots the University's mission in «the evangelical Protestant tradition», nurturing a «commitment to the person and work of Jesus Christ» requiring all to abide by «biblical precepts, believing that this will optimize the University's capacity to fulfil its mission».

The mission of the National Association of Evangelicals is to honor God by connecting and representing evangelical Christians.

I was invited by my Director for Evangelical Mission to attend NCD (Natural Church Development) and Coach Training in South Carolina.