Sentences with phrase «evangelism today»

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In this chapter, we look at some of the forms of evangelism today, and how they amount to little more than talking at people, which is not Scriptural and does more damage to the Gospel than good.

Anyway, yes, much evangelism today sounds more like a MLM.

Chapter 11 of Close Your Church for Good looks at some of the forms of evangelism today, and how they amount to little more than talking at people.

A personal experience of Jesus Christ: the greatest of all obstacles to evangelism today is the poverty of our own spiritual experience.

Much evangelism today is based on meeting needs.

In recent months I have served the Evangelism Working Group of the National Council of Churches as a part - time consultant, compiling a report on what the denominations are doing in evangelism today — and what they are not doing.

As McKnight notes in the book, «Most of evangelism today is obsessed with getting someone to make a decision; the apostles, however, were obsessed with making disciples.»

Not exact matches

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.

In the Missouri Synod Lutheranism of my childhood, the style of evangelism was not much different from that of today's SBC.

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.

A decade later, we might well ask ourselves whether what we are experiencing today is a spiritual awakening, or something better described as a numerical multiplication of evangelicals due to the success of conservative churches and parachurch evangelism ministries.

However, a new kind of street evangelism is succeeding in engaging today's public with the gospel.

As a follow - up to my post above, I just read the following in a book today which sums up nicely some of my concerns with Way of the Master Evangelism:

While not downplaying the significance of evangelism, Smedes opposes the assumption which we have seen represented in Moody Monthly and Christianity Today that somehow «good men [i. e., Christians] will make good societies.»

Evangelism in the U.S. today, as practiced by the denominations, is a very different thing from what it has been in the past — and it is constantly changing.

I read the following blog post on the Doable Evangelism blog today.

I didn't really talk about it in this post, but so much of evangelism and witnessing today is limited to just getting people to heaven when they die, and the Gospel is about so much more than that!

Jeff Haanen, a freelance writer and school administrator, spoke with Platt on the pervasiveness of «cultural Christianity,» the role of hell in evangelism, and the sharper edges of following Christ today.

The World Council of Churches Commission on World Mission and Evangelism had convened a consultation of Orthodox theologians at Bucharest in 1974 on the subject of Confessing Christ Today, as a preparation for the Nairobi Assembly.

Referring to the Bangkok Assembly of the WCC, The International Congress in Lausanne, the Bishops» Synod in Rome on evangelism in the modern world, and the Orthodox Consultation on Confessing Christ today, Thomas said that theological convergence in these meetings is striking in three points: Firstly, in their emphasis on the whole gospel for the whole man in the whole world; secondly, in their effort to relate evangelism to the identity of the church and to its growth, renewal and unity; and thirdly, in their affirmation of the realities of the contemporary world.

The emphasis on ethics in evangelism is viable today because, as in the third century, our cultural context is essentially pagan.

In the section report in «Confessing Christ Today», the Assembly expressed its commitment to evangelism and social action.

While most Christians would not condone a «convert or die» message today, we nevertheless provide our full backing and support for the «turn or burn» message of much Crusade Evangelism.

«Billy used to say to us «you [ought to] believe that nothing happens unless God does it but you work as though there is no God» - and that's the bit that's missing in today's world and that's why there's so little in terms of real evangelism.

Both this event and the the summer 2016 evangelism event I also posted about today are events being hosted by The Billy Graham Center for Evangelism at Wheatoevangelism event I also posted about today are events being hosted by The Billy Graham Center for Evangelism at WheatoEvangelism at Wheaton College.

For example, the best known might be Evangelism Explosion and it's famous question, «If you were to die today, do you know if you'd go to heaven or hell?»

Those of us who dismiss the conservative tradition as being represented by Billy Graham or by the stance of Christianity Today ten or 5 years ago might, for example, take a look at Richard Mouw's Political Evangelism, which is typical of a new breed of theological writing from a very conservative, though hardly fundamentalist, biblical perspective, or God in Public, by William Coats, Episcopal chaplain at the University of Wisconsin.

Today, too many of us roll our eyes at evangelism strategies, calling them hokey and ineffective, and, instead of coming up with other evangelism strategies, we just don't evangelize.

Seems to me that their way of friendship evangelism is the most effective way in today's world.

Since Jesus gathered large crowds, and Peter and Paul also spoke to large assemblies of people, and since similar methods are used today for political, entertainment, and sporting events, some feel that evangelism can use similar strategies to reach thousands for Christ all at one time.

Thus today he stands along side the neighbor, being for him, along side the black, along side of all sorts of groups, to love them, not by apologetics or evangelism, but in honesty and faithfulness.

They look at churches today where people know a lot of the Bible, or where a lot of evangelism is getting done, or where the pastors have built a large following, get the sermons aired on the radio or published in books, and decide that these pastors must have figured something out about preaching.

Today, we will use your Jesus Popsicle product design as an evangelism tool to show and tell children how great is the overpayment of His redemption on the cross for all human being ever lived.

And yet, the vast majority of Christians today seemt to think that evangelism us best accomplished with option number 2.

There is a lot of confusion today about how to evangelize and what to say and do in evangelism.

I am convinced that one of the reasons so much evangelism fails today is because people can not see the love and grace of God in our lives and actions.

Do you think both forms of evangelism are still effective today?

It is not my intention to discuss such ways of reaching the «unchurched»; suffice it to say that the World Council of Churches has lately been studying the problem of evangelism and has recognized that the older methods, effective enough in their time, will not serve today and new methods need to be found.

If Jesus taught evangelism training today, it would go like this.

Some highlights from today's Rainer Report: Evangelism - Slippage - Place...

As an active member of Kingdom of God since I was a kid, I have been fortunate to have been personally mentored by some great leaders of today such Reggie McNeal (a published church leader who teaches on missional leadership) and Louie Giglio whom I volunteered for at Baylor University during my college years and was sent by his group to England to do evangelism.