Sentences with phrase «evangelism programs»

When promoting evangelism programs to assimilate new members, denominations should consider how to create new communities that blend the interests of old and new members.

The Church Growth Movement offers books, workshops, and evangelism programs to stem the tide of membership loss.

A further common feature of most of the evangelism programs is their use of the planning process in organizing the church to communicate the faith.

As its first full - time representative, Billy Graham traveled throughout America and Europe, speaking at rallies and teaching pastors and youth leaders how to develop evangelism programs for young people.

These should be administered along with other evangelism programs with an eye to being as appealing as possible to outsiders and should always be accompanied by some form of invitation to discipleship.

Instead, they figure they did something wrong, and when the next church - growth fad or evangelism program comes along, they once again buy the books, attend the seminars, and send people to training.

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.

Not exact matches

«Global Strategy,» a new program of evangelism, was introduced at the recent session, and its emphasis could change Adventism considerably.

Part of their program was evangelism and part was educational.

No program of evangelism will save it.

But when the church isolates evangelism into a separate program or emphasis, then evangelism is suspect.

Interestingly enough, no one in that process sought to determine whether the vote for evangelism was a positive one, or whether it was a vote against programs of social involvement.

But at the deepest level this program of evangelism is, I believe, addressing only the Christian «in» group or fanning the religious nostalgia of the past.

Some years ago I would probably have welcomed the suggestion made recently by a joint committee of the Christian Reformed Church and my own denomination, the Reformed Church in America, that these two denominations enter upon a united program of «Jewish evangelism.»

This book aims at applying some insights from pastoral psychology to the major dimensions of a church's program — worship, preaching, the prophetic ministry, the church school, the group life, the family - life program, administration and evangelism — as a way of mining this ore.

This latter concern may evoke an outreach program named evangelism, but the content will only be the worst kind of public relations, and the gain will be about as durable as the product loyalties that derive from commercial hype.

In other cases the existing evangelism staff has been attracted to church - growth theory and practice; some staffers have gone to workshops at Pasadena or have otherwise gotten hold of the insights of the movement's theoreticians and incorporated them into their programs.

The Reformed Church in America warns those using its evangelism training manual against the temptation to think of the program as a mechanical formula to be followed.

Evangelism should be a spiritual practice, not a program... as normal as reading your bible or praying.

A vital and practical program of evangelism and missions that encourages believers to get involved in spreading the Gospel of Jesus, locally and internationally, is important to not only that church, but the Body of Christ as a whole.

This was to be no wild - eyed, rousing meeting; rather, it was a systematically planned, carefully calculated program of 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.

But while the programs of the «Christ of culture» advocates are rich in the vocabulary of 19th century Christian evangelism, the images — and hence the real messages — resonate with The Technique, the gambits of modern television advertising.

In general, appeals for money dominate the programs of electronic evangelism.

What is needed is a two - sided thrust in evangelism, one side encouraging Christians to share their story of faith with neighbor and friend, and the other side providing a program of inquiry as a formal way of dealing with people genuinely interested in converting to Christ.

Many Christians are not involved in evangelism because their local church neither encourages it nor has an effective program for dealing with the new convert.

He proposed a holistic approach - the whole Gospel for the whole man for the whole world - rejecting equally a reduction of evangelism to - «saving souls» and of the Gospel to a program of service or social action.

Holistic programs embracing both evangelism and social action — dual missions reflected in the Lausanne Covenant and the Chicago Declaration of Evangelical Concern — increased exponentially around the world.

It's much easier and much more glamorous for the Church to invest time and energy into building programs, evangelism techniques, and theological debates.

Even from the point of view of the electronic church, these programs have more value as encouragement to the faithful than as evangelism to the world.

The Christian Holiness Association even attempted «confederation» in the mid-1960s but had to settle for a more loosely organized program of «cooperative ministries» in such areas as publishing and evangelism.

Concentrated programs In evangelism were carried out under able national direction.

The pressure on the paid - time religious broadcasters to maintain the specific structure of their audience because it is the most financially supportive for them has had the effect of shaping the character of their programs away from their original intention of evangelism, even though they keep the intent of evangelism as a masthead.

The author examines the debate in the church over the growth of paid - time religious programs which has centered on several major issues, including the nature of the church, its mission, evangelism, pastoral care and counseling, and the social and political impact, and also the communication aspects: one way versus interactive communication.

The 12th step of the program is, in a way, a kind of evangelism: to bring the good news to those who want and need it, and to increase the number of converts.

The evangelical and fundamentalist strategy of building programming on direct audience support and purchasing air - time for religious programming for the purpose of evangelism has been shown to have not succeeded.

Only 4 percent of the members indicated that the television programs had influenced their understanding of what the most important things are about being a Christian, an important part of evangelism.

In spite of this dominant use now being made of religious programs by church people, the paid - time broadcasters still maintain that the dominant intention of their programs is evangelism (i.e., reaching outsiders).

This research insight may imply that religious programs on television will be limited in their effectiveness with those age groups which do not use television as a source of gratification for serious content, and therefore that television should exist as only one element in a much broader strategy for ministry and evangelism.

That isn't a substitute for evangelism, that is evangelism — not as an act, a ministry or a program, but as the way of life in a community.

In part three, let's discuss some practical approaches you can take to implementing a brand evangelism campaign around your talent acquisition programs.