And can
evangelism work for law firms?
I agree though, I have never seen confrontational
evangelism work.
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...
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.
Not exact matches
For the sake of consistency I hope you'd direct those same questions to any religion that practiced
evangelism or engaged in missionary
work.
The Center's also set to have a spa and fitness centre, time - share apartments and holiday suites,
work offices, an education centre and also act as the new headquarters of his ministry, Morris Cerullo World
Evangelism.
Alan Charter, Scripture Union's Head of
Evangelism and a Director of Children Matter told Christianity magazine, «There's lots of fantastic
work being carried out by churches.
I think not, Perhaps if one made the unbiblical assumption that
evangelism is primary and social action is secondary, one could argue that one should resist the governing authorities in order to preach the gospel but not to
work for social justice.
[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.
What I will be arguing is that while it «
works» there are other forms of
evangelism which
work more.
Alexandru Stan of the Romanian Orthodox Church summarized some of the thinking of the Eastern Church, from the time of Justin Martyr, on the presence of God in all peoples, Christian and non-Christian alike; Metropolitan George Khodr of Beirut extended Orthodox thinking on the wide and restless
work of the Holy Spirit; and Bishop Anastasios Yannoulatos of the Greek Orthodox Church offered a perspective shaped by his
work as moderator of the Commission on World Mission and
Evangelism.
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 have evaluated that, as a native missionary my team and I can do an effective
work in
evangelism with 10.000 US$ $ $ than a visiting missionary can't do with 100.000 US$ $ $ $.
A native African missionary can do more effective
work in
evangelism with $ 10,000 than a visiting missionary can do with $ 100,000.
Here in africa, crusade style
evangelism really
works well as the church is growing quickly in part to this.
So, this week, we are
working with missionaries and church planters
working hard to engage postmodern Europe through
evangelism and church planting.
Another factor in the greater success of this approach is the eclectic spirit (as distinguished from the exclusivistic spirit of the mission) in which the resources of social
work, psychiatry, medicine, and AA have been integrated with their basic
evangelism.
I would say that most of my
evangelism and preaching of the gospel has been done outside of four walls of recognised church and in this I have seen God
work some awesome miracles.
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.
The friendship and cooperation between the Arminian John Wesley and the Calvinist George Whitefield during the First Great Awakening had shown that the two groups could
work together in
evangelism and make common cause for the evangelical movement.
Evangelism as a
working concept was born in this kind of world, and it was defined by this kind of world.
Recently the faculty of Fuller Theological Seminary's school of world mission called on «Christians in all traditions to reinstate the
work of Jewish
evangelism in their missionary obedience.»
While Students for Life advances Gospel values in their admirable pro-life
work, their strategy prevents them from making
evangelism an explicit core commitment.
Persecution hampered the
work and led to the death of Stephen and the dispersion of many Christians through Palestine, where they found new opportunities of
evangelism among both Jews and Samaritans (8:1).
Another group, which includes United Methodists and Southern Baptists (not yet part of our
working group), defines
evangelism more broadly.
We pledge ourselves to pray and
work for unity in truth among all true believers in Jesus and to cooperate as fully as possible in
evangelism with other brothers and sisters in Christ so that the whole Church may take the whole gospel to the whole world.
I suspect that its usage stems for the most part from the
work of Gabriel Fackre, whose books on
evangelism have circulated far and wide in this decade.
Through his revival
work, he saw the need for an army of Bible - trained lay people to continue the
work of inner - city
evangelism.
So he moves that a minister of
evangelism be hired to train members for this necessary
work.
Not good, why neglect things which are edifying to the christian life, that would be an unhealthy focus on
evangelism in the place of discipleship, just do both I say What if, instead of starting Christian Coffee Houses, Christian
Work - Out Centers, and Christian Bridge Clubs, we started just going to these places that were already in our community and meeting the people who go there?
Mike Talbot who
works in
evangelism for the Diocese of Carlisle said even those who were sceptical about the event were pleased.
Furthermore, while
working on the foreign field, they found that needless competition between various Protestant groups only stood in the way of
evangelism; therefore, they were forced to seek cooperation with one another.
«There is something wrong with our theology if we do
evangelism but no social
work.
They'll tell a couple stories from personal experience, try to make people laugh, use oratorial stylings, and ultimately the «application» is: «fellowship,
evangelism, prayer, tithing, involvement in church ministry /
work.»
Christian
evangelism must become considerably more sophisticated and creative in
working with and encouraging the workers in the secular media, if it wishes significantly to effect their products.
Philip Potter, being sensitive to the charge that
evangelism was a neglected vocation in the life of the Council, examined three questions: Is
evangelism at the heart of the life and
work of the Council?
Go in next Sunday to your pastor and tell him that you have been doing some
evangelism at
work, and several people have gotten saved.
They seek a return to the essentials of the movement, which include mostly matters of faith: the authority of the Bible, the necessity of
evangelism, personal conversion, and the centrality of Jesus»
work on the cross.
While I suspect you agree with synergistic balance in doing
evangelism and good
works, it does not come through in what you say in your book abstract from your new e-book above.
«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.
Sadly, many Church communities give Christians the impression that the only thing that really counts for God at
work is
evangelism.
World Council of Churches Department on Studies in
Evangelism, Planning for Mission:
Working Papers on the New Quest for Missionary Communities, ed.
These distinctives remain important to our faith: salvation by grace, not
works; the authority of the Bible; personal faith; passion for both
evangelism and social justice; and commitment to historic central doctrines.
In this period when vast numbers of Christians called themselves evangelicals, the word connoted both a passion for
evangelism and a commitment to
work vigorously for justice in society.
We begin to see that
evangelism is not just something that takes place in a church with a preacher up front, or on a street corner passing out tracts, but is also something that takes place when we perform our jobs at
work, when we fill out our taxes, and buy groceries, and watch a football game with our neighbor.
A theology of interfaith cooperation lives honestly alongside your theology of salvation and
evangelism, but also asks what in your Christian faith — your relationships to Jesus, your understanding of the Bible, your knowledge of Christian history and tradition — speaks to why you might
work together with people of other faiths on issues of common concern.
James Cushman, author of Beyond Survival and
Evangelism in the Small Church, is now
working with Tom Deitrick in Louisville with small - membership churches, in particular, through the department of
Evangelism and Church Development.)
The Y's engaged in many activities including social service and humanitarian
work,
evangelism of an interdenominational sort, the training of laymen for such
work, and activities designed to appeal especially to young men and women.
I know of a man who had the spiritual gifts of
evangelism, service, and creative communication, the heart desire to travel and be on the open road, the ability and knowledge to
work on motorcycles, a fun - loving and free - spirited personality, and the life experiences of riding motorcycles.
The
evangelism boom of the 20th century came primarily from the
work done among African tribal groups that had no ties to the world's major religions.