Sentences with phrase «evangelism more»

All of these are valuable within the life of believers, but there are a few things that the church can do to help make preaching, doctrinal statements, prayer meetings, and evangelism more effective for the mission of the church.

Immigration puts a face on those we are called to reach, which makes evangelism more complicated.

In a previous post, I made some suggestions about how to do evangelism more effectively.

Another group, which includes United Methodists and Southern Baptists (not yet part of our working group), defines evangelism more broadly.

Not exact matches

As Robert points out, the deeper level of ongoing engagement that characterizes the subscriber experience makes this audience more likely to exhibit desirable behaviors — like a greater willingness to share personal data, a greater interest in upselling opportunities, or greater brand loyalty and evangelism — than non-subscribers.

The Church of England's rounding off a special week devoted to prayer and evangelism by hosting seven... More

A new report has been published to help churches and Christian organisations better understand young people so they can be more effective in evangelism.

But whether the head of the Standing Commission on Evangelism is strategically right or wrong, the more interesting development is the increasingly explicit doctrine that the Episcopal Church is a non-doctrinal communion.

[4] As we engage in the spiritual disciplines of Bible reading, praying, attending church, tithing, evangelism, etc., we naturally grow stronger in the Lord and His might is able to work in and through us more easily.

I believe that this would be much more effective than the situation you described above as «hit and run» evangelism.

As the Evangelical Alliance launch a new website to encourage evangelism, Wayne... More

Also, this particular form of evangelism hurts more people than it helps.

Aside from being a terrible application of this passage, such an approach to evangelism is simply scary, and probably does more damage than good.

A lot more is going on in church than just evangelism, and a lot of the money is spent on discipling those who believe.

What I will be arguing is that while it «works» there are other forms of evangelism which work more.

For John Paul II's 1990 encyclical Redemptoris Missio, the Magna Carta of the New Evangelization, called for urgent evangelism among Christians who had fallen away from the practice of the faith, or had been poorly catechized, or, more likely, had suffered both maladies, the latter contributing to the former.

Then followed six and a half more years of pastoral evangelism.

America has been gaining more than 600,000 new Christians each year — all without the help of any evangelism efforts.

Rev Canon Chris Russell might not be used to the limelight, but since his appointment as Justin Welby's adviser for evangelism last year, things have started... More

More than 100 evangelical leaders gathered today at the Billy Graham Center for Evangelism (BGCE) at Wheaton College to discuss how American Christians can best respond to the current refugee crisis.

I have evaluated that, as a native African missionary, my team and I can do more effective work in evangelism with $ 10,000 than a visiting missionary can do with $ 100,000.

I guess I was just arguing that personal evangelism might in the long run be even more effective, especially when we help people understand that they don't need all the polish of the stage production put on by evangelism crusades, but can simply love people in their neighborhood.

In general their claim to be evangelicals is more that they believe in evangelism than that they practice it on any large scale.

A native African missionary can do more effective work in evangelism with $ 10,000 than a visiting missionary can do with $ 100,000.

For various reasons, most United Methodists have redefined evangelism as inviting their neighbors to go to church with them, and even this kind of evangelism is spoken about more than it is practiced.

, I am without any hesitation asked for financial support, more support and even more support (OK, I accept that may sometimes be culture — but is not healthy...) and any friendly response from me is cultivated and I suddenly find myself fundraising... — if I would be allowed to spend $ 100K I would rather spend this NOT on evangelism by a Westerner, but also NOT on a local evangelist, but on quality leadership / bible college training for African leaders.

But I think that relationship evangelism could be more effective, and helps more people get involved in evangelism.

But he has garnered more controversy within Turkey for his street evangelism.

Confrontational evangelism usually does more to annoy people than save them.

The initiative, held in association with the Asian missionary organisation OMF International, is trying to encouragement more people to support evangelism.

Next time you do evangelism, try to recognize that sometimes, there are more important things than sharing the gospel with words.

In addition to shaping Christian thought through his voluminous publications («Fundamentalism» and the Word of God, Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God, and A Quest for Godliness, to name only three of the most popular), he helped steer the flagship Evangelical magazine Christianity Today, spoke at countless Evangelical conferences and local churches, mentored hundreds of future pastors through his seminary teaching, and lent his name to the back covers of more Evangelical books than probably any other Christian endorser ever.

But Christianity does not feature anywhere in the gospel, any more than the church's mission, theology, structures, pastoralism and evangelism in Africa.

But our work together thus far has already established several points that may have an important bearing on the future of theological education in America: (1) the party - strife between «evangelicals» and «charismatics» and «ecumenicals» is not divinely preordained and need not last forever; (2) the Wesleyan tradition has a place of its own in the theological forum along with all the others; (3) «pluralism» need not signify «indifferentism»; (4) «evangelism» and «social gospel» are aspects of the same evangel; (5) in terms of any sort of cost - benefit analysis, a partnership like AFTE represents a high - yield investment in Christian mission; and (6) the Holy Spirit has still more surprises in store for the openhearted.

for one group that gathers on a certain day in a certain place to focus more on teaching and knowledge gifts, and not as much on service and evangelism, while another group at another place and time focuses on service and evangelism, but not as much on teaching and knowledge, and that from God's perspective, this is all okay?

Evangelism offices and commissions gather and affirm the various groups that identify themselves under their broad banner; they sponsor workshops on church growth, offering helpful techniques for how to make church life more inclusive, how to bring back those who drift away, how to incorporate new members more quickly, how to set up and carry out community - building activities such as lay visitation.

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.

But in his essay on «The Civic Project of American Christianity» (February), Michael Hanby seems to encourage a form of Christian witness founded more on a double portion of critical thinking than on evangelism.

As it turns out, while evangelism is down among most generations, Millennials are actually sharing their faith more.

Although the «two by two» ought not to be taken so literally as home visitation evangelism has often done, it seems symbolic of the fact that any Christian is always a representative, always more than himself, and always checked up on by his brother.

Todd is not my style and his antics do more to offend me than motivate me, but I can not ignore the fruit of Christ's ministry through Him in people I ended up hanging out with that would not have come to faith in Christ through my mostly cerebral, jovial and friendship - seeking approach or through other types of evangelism.

A while back I wrote about how confrontational evangelism turns way more people away from Jesus than toward Him.

But as mainline denominations moved away from dependence on revivals and mass evangelism, they came to apply the optimism of perfection more to the arena of social transformation than to the sphere of personal sanctification.17 The result was that Methodist devotion to entire sanctification had to find expression outside the denomination in so - called Holiness groups.

I think that this cartoon is an accurate portrayal of TV evangelism and the sooner that the American Church returns to the concept of the local church ministering here and around the world, then we will more authenically be responding to the Great Commission.

David Hubbard, for example, in his taped remarks on the future of evangelicalism to a colloquium at Conservative Baptist Theological Seminary in Denver in 1977 noted the following areas of tension among evangelicals: women's ordination, the charismatic movement, ecumenical relations, social ethics, strategies of evangelism, Biblical criticism, Biblical infallibility, contextual theology in non-Western cultures, and the churchly applications of the behavioral sciences.2 If such a list is more exhaustive than those topics which this book has pursued, it nevertheless makes it clear that the foci of the preceding chapters have at least been representative.

One can find numerous examples like William Brenton Greene, Jr. who in 1912 argued that the more acute the social crisis, the more the church needed to emphasize its own mission of evangelism.3 Greene believed that no crisis outshone the religious crisis and there was neither time nor energy to go in two directions.

There is a recognition that a conscientious evangelism program depends on making what have been rather inchoate dreams more explicit and more a matter of conscious planning in which many people participate.

What is more, the aim of mission became focused exclusively on evangelism techniques and lost the fuller picture of what biblical mission is.

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Laurence Singlehurst explains how when it comes to evangelism there's no such thing as «one size fits all» More