Sentences with phrase «evangelical witness»

Christians themselves began to take hold of evangelical witness in new ways that inevitably reinvented ecclesial existence, often positively, outside the structure of European civilization's established churches.

Since 1967, Good News has been the leading evangelical witness and ministry within The United Methodist Church.

A good death, he says, «is finally nothing more or less than a death approached and performed in a manner consistent with a good, well - lived life... Dying well is a morally significant act insofar as it bears evangelical witness to our most profound theological convictions.»

Named after Blessed John Paul II's papal motto, the programme brings a week of solid catechesis, youthful evangelical witness, and a burst of enthusiasm and energy that is contagious and seems to be bearing significant spiritual fruit.

In 1986, a group identifying themselves as «Concerned Evangelicals» produced a Kairos - inspired «critique of (South African) evangelical theology and practice» entitled Evangelical Witness in South Africa.

These sermons offer, if I may use an old - fashioned term, a powerful evangelical witness.

To start calculating the relative moral weights of political partners and worrying about misperceived moral equivalencies, while inevitable, can not form the basis of evangelical witness and ecclesial policy.

Since 1967, Good News has been the leading evangelical witness and ministry within The United Methodist Church.

The theological, ethical and pastoral reflection which this situation has provoked will undoubtedly enrich the church in its evangelical witness.

Third, in the public sphere, the most visible aspects of the evangelical witness today are typically moralistic, and the moralism is often related to sexuality.

For this reason, the study of Luther is especially — and perhaps only — relevant to the extent that it asks what help (or impediment) Luther offers for evangelical witness and life in the face of the challenges that Christians must confront in the present.3

See Sider's «An Evangelical Witness for Peace» in Preaching on Peace, which he edited with Darrel J. Brubacher (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1982), pp. 25 - 28; and Wallis's collection of articles from the magazine Sojouners, which he edits, entitled Waging Peace (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1982).

With John Paul II, the answer to that skepticism turned out to be a resounding «Yes»» but only if a pontiff was prepared to challenge the traditional managers of popes and re-boot the Petrine Office as one of evangelical witness.

The vivid contrast between the evangelical witness to poverty and charity and the grandiosity of the papal court stirred many popular passions.

The church's belief in the resurrection originated with the evangelical witness of this woman.»

Since 1967, Good News has been the leading evangelical witness and ministry within The United Methodist Church.

Evangelicals witness this reality in their own lives all the time: the Lord invades, and we are ever transformed by the working of His Spirit.

Since 1967, Good News has been the leading evangelical witness and ministry within The United Methodist Church.