Sentences with phrase «evangelical missionary»

It is impossible, for instance, to analyze the dismantling of slavery in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries apart from a host of political developments — specifically liberal ones, but also specifically Christian ones, derived in part from evangelical missionary attitudes and discoveries.

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.

It is a little - known fact among American Christians that Pike was not only an evangelical missionary and Bible translator but also one of the world's top linguistic scientists of the 20th century.

For an evangelical missionary in the 1930s, the embrace of Bible translation was fitting, but science and social concern were hardly the stuff of evangelical missions.

Writing in the 19th Century, the evangelical missionary to the Holy Land, Rev John Nicolayson said the supposed miracle was evidence the city of Jerusalem desperately needed to hear the gospel: «If anything especial need be urged in favour of a missionary settlement in Jerusalem, this and other similar perversions and mockeries of the truth and of sacred things, furnish a most urgent plea.

David Wood, an American evangelical missionary who led Qureshi to Christ, has paid his respects to his close friend online.

A sprawling 44 - bedroom house surrounded by towering brick walls that was once the home base for polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs has been converted into a sober living center by Evangelical missionaries.

I worked in S. America and saw the evangelical missionaries at work, coming to save the poor heathen Catholics.

They feared that the integration might, lead to the proselytizing activities of the evangelical missionaries among the Orthodox, and also lead to the alteration of the basis of the World Council of Churches.

I've also been struck by the idea that many American evangelical missionaries and missiologists, and perhaps the Apostle Paul himself, would be in danger of dismissal if they taught at Wheaton College, since many of us arguably have been guilty of the very thing Wheaton College is sanctioning.

After that, the possibilities for mutual understanding created unintentionally by American Evangelical missionaries disappeared, and hostility between the Islamic world and the rest of the globe returned, continuing to the present.

Not exact matches

From an Evangelical Catholic perspective, every Catholic is a missionary, an evangelist, a disciple, commissioned by the Lord to take the gospel to every nation, calling all to be baptized in the name of the Most Holy Trinity.

They believe that evangelicals attach an exaggerated importance to missionaries in whatever role remains for Western churches overseas.

Those evangelical «old style» missionaries still serving overseas are perceived by liberal / ecumenicals as supporting repressive economic and political systems in developing countries in order to achieve the «stability» that will enable them to gain admittance to those countries and be left free to evangelize.

Veteran SIM missionary Howard Brant celebrates that «the two groups are coming closer and closer together» in Ethiopia, which he calls «one of the great success stories of evangelical Christianity.»

However, defining the Copts concretely is more difficult, explains Mark Nygard, director of graduate studies at the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo (founded in 1863 by American Presbyterian missionaries).

It was not until evangelical Christianity flourished in the 19th century that a truly exilic perspective was explicitly linked to missionary outreach and proved capable of expanding the community of churches to include socially marginal groups.

I actually do a presentation when I seek to explain the modern evangelical movement, particularly to movement leaders here in the United States or to missionaries who have been out of the country for a long time.

Through these further human relations Christ leaves other principles which will endure in the Church: Petrine (Office and Sacraments), Pauline (missionary character and charisms), Johannine (unity, contemplative love and the evangelical counsels) and Jacobine (continuity of old and new covenant — Tradition, Canon Law).

From my admittedly limited vantage point, the gravest dangers for us seem to be not legalism but antinomianism, not intellectualism but sentimentalism, not scrupulosity but laxity, not despair but presumption, not all - out retreat but all - out assimilation, not pharisaic ritualism but anti-liturgical iconoclasm, not missionary timidity but evangelical over-hastiness, not self - referentialism but self - forgetfulness (and not the good kind), not stifling uniformity but disjointed miscellany, not clericalism but, for lack of a better word, laicism.

What is commonly called the «modern missionary movement» among the Protestants is the product of pietistic and evangelical movements of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

I would see these involvements on the same level as the evangelical and pietistic commitment of missionaries such as William Carey.

Today, fundamentalists and evangelicals (including Pentecostals) constitute approximately 90 percent of all Protestant missionaries working in foreign lands.

It was this social and critical dimension, understood as an intrinsic part of evangelical and pietistic commitment, that gave the early missionary movement its distinctive character.

Principal of these was the Pietistic movement and the Evangelical Awakening which pressed upon these missionaries the conviction that the whole world had to be won for Christ.

As missionary personnel and Christian soldiers reported the humanitarian crisis to their constituencies in America, concern for the physical well - being of downtrodden Koreans began to percolate through the evangelical subculture.

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.»

Evangelicals say that Mormons are not Christians because they are afraid Mormon missionaries will come and take away their congregations (and hence their livelihood).

In some denominations, including the Evangelical Free Church of America, the Christian and Missionary Alliance, and the Assemblies of God, a two - year minimum rehabilitation process is required, stated the NAE.

A real fear of evangelicals is that having a Mormon U.S. President would be a great advertisement for Mormon missionaries, particularly in the Third World, where they compete with evangelicals for souls to convert.

Pike modeled this throughout his career, self - identifying both as a missionary and a scholar until his death on December 31, 2000 — all the while demonstrating that evangelicals could effectively serve God with both the heart and the mind.

Evangelical Christians in Vietnam and Laos, who have faced government campaigns of «eradication» and «containment,» expect persecution, reported Reg Reimer, a former missionary and longtime advocate for religious freedom in Vietnam.

Calling the Church back to the heart of truth is an essential foundation for Pope Benedict's missionary and evangelical initiative.

It is another for some African Christians to argue that their positions on homosexuality are wholly indigenous and that Western forces are practicing a new kind of colonialism in arguing for the legitimacy of same - sex relationships, especially when we hear echoes of Western missionary positions on homosexuality and see Western Evangelicals like Scott Lively actively stirring up hatred against homosexuals in African countries.

«The Russian Orthodox church is part of a bulwark of Russian nationalism stirred up by Vladimir Putin,» David Aikman, history professor and foreign affairs expert, told CT. «Everything that undermines that action is a real threat, whether that's evangelical Protestant missionaries or anything else.»

The movement toward the independence of the church may lead to the development of a new missionary or evangelical movement, to the rise of an effective international Christianity, to the union of the divided parts of the church of Christ, and to the realization in civilization of the unity and peace of the saved children of one God.

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

Consequently, one sad result of the integration was that several of the evangelical groups, who were associated with the International Missionary Council, and through it with the ecumenical movement as a whole, now felt alienated from the ecumenical movement as represented by the World Council of Churches.

In this context, the Congress called everyone to encourage and assist in the organization of evangelical fellowships among churches and missionary societies at national, regional and international levels.

The modern missionary movement of the 18th and 19th centuries flowed in a direct powerful way out of this evangelical movement.

As we prayed, the sweet, generous, barrier - breaking, presence of Jesus, was nearly tangible in the midst of a lesbian feminist priest - to - be and a well - meaning, but still judgmental evangelical urban missionary.

Historian David Bebbington suggests a respected paradigm for those who identify as an evangelical: a transformed life through following Jesus, faith demonstrated through missionary and social reform efforts, a regard for the Bible as ultimate authority, and a central focus on the sacrificial death of Jesus.

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.

The former mayor of Jerusalem, who is ultra-Orthodox, refused to accept funds from evangelical Christians because he suspected a secret agenda to engage in missionary activities among Israel's Jews.

Another pastor added that part of a missionary's orientation should consist of «many hours reading Argentine political history and some of our basic ecclesiastical documents such as «The Missionary Strategy of the Argentine Evangelical Methodist Church.&raqmissionary's orientation should consist of «many hours reading Argentine political history and some of our basic ecclesiastical documents such as «The Missionary Strategy of the Argentine Evangelical Methodist Church.&raqMissionary Strategy of the Argentine Evangelical Methodist Church.»»

The evangelical groups include Pentecostals, Nazarenes, the Bible Temple, the Triumphant Church of Jesus Christ, Defenders of the Faith, Christian and Missionary Alliance, Free Methodists, Youth for Christ and Youth with a Mission.

Nowhere is the missionary invasion more evident than on the island of Hispanola, where I recently served as a pastor in the Dominican Evangelical Church in the city of Barahona in the Dominican Republic.

Two leading evangelical Christian relief and missionary organizations say they have teams of workers poised to enter Iraq to address the physical and spiritual needs of its large Muslim population.

When I say that ecumenism is a central evangelical concern, I refer to the fact of evangelicalism as a global missionary movement intent on preaching the Gospel to every person in the world.

The relief and missionary work is certain to be closely watched because both Graham and the Southern Baptist Convention have been at the heart of controversial evangelical denunciations of Islam, the world's second - largest religion.