Persons are intermediaries in the process
of evangelising society and culture.
It must of course be acknowledged that one can find many instances of active
evangelising in the Church, where organisations, communities and parishes reach out to non-believers using a wide variety of methods.
Mr Courney had been
evangelising on Lincoln High Street for eight years before he was arrested under the Public Order Act over his preaching on 16th June 2017.
In similar fashion, leaving theological discussions aside, Pope Francis wants to propose a model of a Church that
evangelises through attraction, and not because of the strength of its concepts.
As Pope Benedict XVI so beautifully puts it, «In a nutshell, to
evangelise means to teach people «the art of living» so as to lead them to life and happiness in Christ.»
Not only East Africa, but so many other places were
first evangelised in ways both good and sinful, and then grew on in their own way under God into what they are today.
Although the cryptocurrency is still little known in the country, local users are slowly succeeding at actively
evangelising bitcoin.
The kind of thinking that Phil Harrison
evangelised at the Games Invest event is thus rather misaligned.
As believers, our role is not to continually look for signs of the end; it is to
keep evangelising in case this is the end... and also in case it isn't.
While Gregory successfully sent missionaries to
evangelise pagans in Europe, John Paul sought, with less success, to re-evangelise after centuries of Christianity had started to flag.
-- Lk 6:38
Evangelising what I spend my weekends and holidays doing, because I love it!
The practical challenge faced by those who wish to
evangelise contemporary culture through the way of beauty is to envision how it might effectively challenge and transform secular values and ways of understanding.
Beauty can
evangelise because it has the potential to convince, not by rational argument but through an intuitive or spiritual engagement.
One could turn to many artists for a precedent for a
newly evangelised culture comprising imaginative activities that are open to the transcendent, a culture that integrates human creativity in art, literature and science with the call to holiness, to a life that acknowledges truth, goodness and beauty as having their source in the divine.
I'm sorry but anyone who goes through the effort to
evangelise atheism is not a true atheist.
A church in Chester is
boldly evangelising in a council estate café and an upmarket shop, with some incredible testimonies More
The Pope's striking effort to
evangelise secular culture in Westminster Hall can be seen in this context as a basic text, since it seeks the same resolution.
The thing that worries me the most for the Church today is the notion that if we compromise our holiness — if we compromise our view on sexuality — then the people will be
evangelised more easily and more people will come to Christ.
It is also true that there is little in the way of a support system forCatholics who do wish to
evangelise beyond informal contacts with family, friends and work colleagues, and even here there is an unfulfilled need for preparatory formation.
Ted and Liz were soon spreading the word to their contemporaries yet, despite their best efforts to
evangelise hippies through their more traditional church, they eventually pioneered an independent Christian commune, The Living Room, in Haight - Ashbury in spring 1967.
It now has its own religious philosophy — secular humanism — which it advocates and
evangelises with all the fervency of any religious fundamentalist.
It goes without saying that one should not overlook Archbishop Fisichella's insights
into evangelising modalities — not just because he is President of the Pontifical Council for the New Evangelisation but because it is widely understood, especially inside the Vatican, that both he and Cardinal Ratzinger, as he then was, mostly authored the encyclical Fides et Ratio (aka «Fisichella and Ratzinger»)
Paul insists on his Roman citizenship in this Roman colony, and the range and differing social backgrounds of his converts back up one of his
key evangelising principles, flowing from his knowledge of the Son of God as the «first born of many brothers» (Rom 8:29 - 31) as well as «of creation» (Col. 1:15): that in Christ there is no Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female (Gal 3:28).
- the NDC will suffer serious political bruises it allows the
Npp evangelise its supporters with their practices and actions.
The main reason why I feel somewhat intellectually offended by those who
evangelise exclusive eBook publishing is that publishing in eBook and print formats, at the same time, is amazingly simple and cheap (the physical and commercial aspects, that is — the quality writing, editing, proofing etc is in fact costly in time and resources, but is unrelated to format of a title).
Starlight Inception certainly talks the talk on PS Vita and PC, and it's exactly the sort of ambitious indie project that I
usually evangelise from the rooftops, but I'm dismayed to report that this latter - day space sim falls drastically short of what I'd consider to be an acceptable level of quality.
Elsewhere,
Nokia evangelised WAP, and the topic of pub «roundtable» discussion was the difficulty of PS2.
Hunicke meanwhile encouraged women developers to speak up more and
evangelise females in games, stating that, given the rarity of women CEOs, if you should come across a glass ceiling, form your own company, and help spark a new generation of role models.