Sentences with phrase «evangelical way of»

Without experiencing it, Slack admittedly sounds like garden - variety instant messaging; the difficulty of quickly summarizing what it's good at means that converts often have a wooly, evangelical way of talking about it.

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Another way of cutting the evangelical electorate is to say that 86 % supported someone other than Romney and 85 % didn't choose a Mormon.

He's not exactly another philosopher - pope, but there are other ways of being an inspirational, evangelical, and poetically theological pope: For Augustine, the joy promised by the Lord to his followers is given and lives in spe, in hope.

Thus Evangelical Catholicism's approach to church architecture, decoration, music, vesture, and all the other tangibles of the Church's liturgical life proceeds from the question, «Is this beautiful in such a way that it helps disclose the living God in Word and Sacrament?»

While Evangelicals greatly respect the way in which the Catholic Church has defended many historic Christian teachings against relativizing and secularizing trends, and recognize the role of the present pontiff in that important task today, they believe that some aspects of Catholic doctrine are not biblically warranted, and they do not accept any claims of infallibility made for the magisterial teachings of popes or church councils.

It can only be met by a robustly evangelical Catholicism that proposes the gospel in a compelling and courageous way, and that insists that public authorities permit the Church the free space to be itself, make its gospel proposal, and offer the service of charity to others.

This forged passage above is, by the way, where the evangelical tradition of «speaking in tongues,» the Appalachian tradition of snake handling and the Christian Science tradition of healing through «laying of hands» all come from — and it's a complete forgery.

At the same time, I think it plausible that evangelicals are encountered by the living God, and are encountered more frequently than many of those who worship in the ways that Smith outlines.

The authors usefully highlight the ways in which the evangelical fervor of the nineteenth century gave women considerably expanded space for social leadership, and they view people such as Matthews and Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormons, as reacting, at least in significant part, to this challenge to patriarchy.

However, by refusing to submit to «the democracy of the dead,» (Chesterton's words, not Compton's), nineteenth - century Evangelicals did, in ways Compton suggests but does not fully clarify, take a first crucial step toward the idea of a «living Constitution.»

Many evangelicals believe that societal reform is a top - down process: Remove President Barack Obama and frustrate initiatives of the Democratic Party and you're well on your way.

I had so many evangelical friends who raved and loved the movie «The Book of Eli», all the way up to the end.

LifeWay warns Miller's readers to exercise discernment because it believes his books to be inconsistent with historical evangelical theology in some way, yet instead of refusing to sell them, LifeWay chooses to profit from what it alleges to be heresy (ish).

To suggest that evangelical Protestantism points the way to «classical spirituality» is to blithely disregard fifteen centuries of authentic «classical Christian spirituality» and obscure the desperately needed benefits of this rich tradition from evangelical view.

• «Evangelical and Catholic,» writes a Baptist minister who is a skeptic about the project Evangelicals and Catholics Together, «are two radically different and incompatible ways of being Christian.»

So before religion goes by the way of the horse - and - buggy, someone with a brain in the evangelical church leadership needs to realize how ridiculous they sound every time they spew scientific nonsense.

Even back during my most fundamentalist / evangelical / pentecostal years I felt that, rather than being for the purpose of entreating God to intervene in circumstances or change others, prayer was a way to draw strength, comfort, courage, and wisdom for dealing with those circumstances.

More significant in the long run, however, may be the second way evangelicals have been reacting, through the support of nondenominational parachurch organizations engaged in overseas mission.

They have love lives (sometimes not the kind that would keep evangelicals happy), they have outside interests and friends beyond the Church, and the majority seem to be wrestling and stumbling their way through a life of faith.

Most evangelicals probably agree with Reinhold Niebuhr that in a world infested with well - armed Hitlers, Stalins and colonialists, persons and nations that follow the way of the cross get wiped out.

But in 1974 at the second national workshop of Evangelicals for Social Action, one proposal that was endorsed as a valid way to implement the Chicago Declaration of Evangelical Social Concern called for a movement of evangelical, nonviolent dirEvangelical Social Concern called for a movement of evangelical, nonviolent direvangelical, nonviolent direct action.

And by the way, socially conservative, evangelical Christians should spend some time re-reading the Gospels and the rest of the New Testament.

In some ways, Flanders is the embodiment of evangelical cultural stereotypes: He's extremely morally conservative, constantly references his faith, has a seemingly perfect family, is prone to cringe - inducing clichéd sayings and is a fixture at the local church.

Each of the ways of using the word is derived from a historical paradigm and struggle in which there emerged an «evangelical» party.

Because of this ambiguity we need to give some attention to the question of in what sense the Wesleyan way of using Scripture in theology represents an «evangelical option.»

I dream of a movement of evangelical, nonviolent direct action that will dare to pray and picket, evangelize and blockade until Americans can no longer ignore the way our affluence is built on poverty and starvation abroad.

Yet overseas mission remains in a special way the «cause» of the evangelicals, and they provide the bulk of its financial support.

Being Chinese - American born in AZ in a small town, everyone that I know and have known who immigrated from China believe in the evangelical christian way of life.

In a session on Evangelicals and the Second Vatican Council at the ETS, one older man complained that «Catholics don't budge an inch on any doctrine» and that for Catholics «dialogue is just a way of gobbling up weaker churches, like an amoeba.»

Your pet evangelical gate - keeper isn't the sole arbitrator of the Christian faith: there is more complexity and beauty and diversity of voices and experiences within followers of the Way than you know.

The European Evangelical Alliance stated it was «extremely concerned» about how the law «greatly restricts religious freedom, and urged Christians to «pray that this new law unites Christians in new ways» and «pray that this time of trial will be used by the Lord to strengthen and grow his church.»

Although Martin Scorsese's film adaptation of this novel in the 1980s drew the full brunt of scorn from the evangelical community, who were scandalized at the idea that Jesus was actually tempted, the basic story is a stunningly - written and imaginative exploration of the idea of that Jesus was «tempted in every way, just as we are — yet he did not sin.»

But because of political circumstances and the way Gingrich parried a question about the accusation during Thursday's CNN debate, the episode may cause relatively little fallout among evangelical voters, who are expected to make up about 60 % of the vote in Saturday's South Carolina primary.

The vast majority of evangelical pastors think persecution is coming their way.

«As they participate in various causes, it is essential that they engage in and speak in such a way that faithfully represent the college's evangelical Statement of Faith.

The stubborn commitment to abstinence - only education among many evangelicals struck me as counterproductive to the cause, and those awful statements about how a raped woman has a «way of shutting that whole thing down» to prevent pregnancy were shameful and ignorant.

A great deal of the strength of the evangelical Christian's life was derived from a meditative reading of Scripture in this way.

And when Evangelical leaders regard an emphasis on the ordinary means of grace as jeopardizing the Christian faith while going easy on, for example, serious deviations from Nicene teaching on the Trinity, they have traveled a long way from the concerns of the Reformers.

On this basis, he fought tooth and nail against the moderates in the Southern Baptist Convention or any other part of the evangelical world who rejected the idea that the Bible was the Word of God in favor of the idea that the Bible became the Word of God in encounter or contained the Word of God in some way.

In 2014, 30 percent of white evangelicals and 26 percent of black Protestants felt that way.

As evangelicalism in the U.S. has been working its way through something of an identity crisis over the past few years, and as many young evangelicals like myself have reconnected with the spiritual disciplines, this seems to be a recurring point of contention, and therefore one that should be addressed.

The Emergent movement always struck me as a way to introduce mainstream Protestant theology into the Evangelical church, without all the baggage of a larger church structure and oversight.

To put this another way: Can evangelicals consistently maintain their understanding of the Reformation gospel, given their frequent indifference to the catholic (and thus Reformation) doctrine of God?

I think that in this way, the emerging church is seeking to correct what has been a bit of an over-emphasis on apologetics and doctrine within the conservative evangelical community in recent years.

To the collective gasps of their congregations, pastors are misrepresenting the study's findings by making claims like, «most Americans are universalists» or «a majority of evangelical Christians no longer believe Jesus is the only way to eternal life» or «most Christians think all paths lead to God.»

If someone is wondering how loving conservative Evangelicals can be, I advice them to go to one of their forums and pretend being a Gay Christian having accepted that God made him that way.

Seriously it's imperative to keep State and Church totally separate issues or you'll wind up with a country dictated by brainwashed evangelicals who think their way is the only way... and the rest of us are just misguided.

I become cynical of everything evangelical, and I look for ways to belittle those with whom I disagree.

A Peculiar People: The Church as Culture in a Post-Christian Society by Rodney Clapages InterVarsity, 251 pages, $ 14.99 paper A prolific evangelical Protestant writer, Clapp proposes an understanding of «church as way of life» along lines made familiar by the work of Stanley Hauerwas.

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