Sentences with phrase «evangelism meant»

Once upon a time, street evangelism meant shouting about sin.

And if so, what does evangelism mean?

What does evangelism mean here?

This world is seen (in the words of Dwight L. Moody) as «a wrecked vessel», and evangelism means saving from the world «all you can».

Not exact matches

As long as evangelism is the focus, God will continue to bless it... Shoe box gifts are distributed along with The Greatest Gift of All, an illustrated booklet that gives a clear presentation of the true meaning of Christmas... After the shoe boxes are distributed, we also provide follow - up materials to give children further opportunities to accept Christ and grow in their faith.

The Jesuit Alessandro Valignano (1539 - 1606) was among the first to articulate missionary policies, not only emphasizing the importance of «accommodation and adaptation to Chinese culture,» as historian Daniel H. Bays writes, but also «indirect evangelism by means of science and technology to convince the elite of the high level of European civilization.»

If you read the book «Evangelism Explosion» or attended a two hour «soul winning» class, you too could be a «soul winner», whatever that term was intended to mean.

At college I've learned more about what it means to really serve Jesus and his Church, feeling positively challenged to push myself in preaching, mentoring and evangelism.

This doesn't mean that we should squander our creativity trying to think up new gimmicks for evangelism, as so many do.

Since all Christians are to be living out the gospel in their life, this means that all Christians are evangelists, for «evangelism» means «living the gospel.»

This will mean involvement in both personal evangelism and social justice.

In some cases this means that a church leaves a particular aspect of evangelism untreated and recommends to its leaders a good resource in that field available from another denomination.

It may simply mean that in that denomination evangelism is a separate function — and therefore needs to develop a holism of its own — or that the materials sent me represent a larger slice of that denomination's life than what others would call «evangelism pure and simple.»

Wimber believed power evangelism was the most effective means of evangelism in the early church and power evangelism was present during periods of great missionary expansion and renewal throughout church history.

The term «power,» used among those ascribing to the early Third Wave, meant evidential power of the Holy Spirit, resulting in healing, miracles, and evangelism.

By the end of the Assembly, as Kenneth Slack pointed out, «most of the members felt that there was more danger from undue stress on the evangelism of individuals than the other way round, despite widely expressed anxiety, given expression by Stott, that liberation in political, social and economic sense was in danger of replacing salvation from sin at the heart of the redeeming gospel».73 There was no doubt that, despite the narrowing of the range of disagreements, important differences continued, especially with regard to the meaning of salvation and the program of dialogue with people of other faiths.

James A. Sherer points out that the Nairobi Assembly met at a time when the Churches of Africa, the Orthodox theologians, the Evangelical world and the Roman bishops were all giving attention to the meaning and practice of evangelism.

If the billboards read something that was meant for religious people, then you could maybe consider it evangelism.

What does the World Council of Churches mean when it speaks of evangelism?

Religious freedom charity Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) said the new law means evangelism will become illegal and religious minorities could end up falling foul of the law.

If this is true, in what we say, what we do, and how we act, then what does this mean for evangelism?

In the book of Acts you never ever see «God loves you» as the means of evangelism.

In the third and fourth chapters we shall examine what a closer synthesis of theology with evangelism might mean in personal religious living.

Inter-personal communication is still the most effective means of evangelism.

Some of those shocked by the sudden disappearance of their loved ones will become true «Bible - believing» Christians who will band together to resist the wiles of the Antichrist and conduct secret evangelism campaigns meant to grow the power and numbers of their «tribulation force.»

It appears from Comments to my previous post that although Stegall is accusing various Free Grace writers and speakers of having a «Crossless Gospel,» what he really means is that we have «Crossless evangelism.»

In my own evangelism, I nearly always refer to the death and resurrection of Jesus as the means by which Jesus secured eternal life for those who believe in Him.

(17) Others are beginning to question not only the accuracy but the honesty of such claims, even suggesting that by raising millions of dollars each year in the name of evangelism the broadcasters are perpetuating a massive fraud among well - meaning but naive religious supporters.