Sentences with word «evangelistic»

The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association of Canada did not change the lineup.

The Gospel message of Evangelistic Crusades is not biblical.

Asking Jesus into your heart is probably the most prominently misused phrase today in evangelistic efforts.

In recent years, a number of Christian leaders have rightly called lethargic and half - hearted Christians to quicken their pace, to dedicate more of their time, talents, money and efforts to serving the Lord in the local church and in evangelistic outreach at home and abroad.

In 1988, I started my first church in Buffalo, New York, on the heels of a Billy Graham Evangelistic Crusade.

He held that the congregations should abandon their buildings and institutions and become bands of roving ministers, believing that the time for evangelistic mission work had passed.

Was it an effective new evangelistic tool or was it merely reaching the already committed?

While in the states, Meyer's Bible teaching ministry reached a struggling young preacher named J. Wilber Chapman, whose approach was so transformed that he, too, went into evangelistic ministry.

Over 23,000 people attended the JustOne evangelistic event at the Emirates Stadium in London last month, with 1,743 recorded as making a response to the gospel.

In the classical sense revival is not, as some of our American brothers would regard it, a series of evangelistic meetings, but rather a phenomenal sovereign intervention from God which starts in the Church, often leading to profound repentance and fresh encounters with God.

The hellfire - and - brimstone preachers wonder why so many fall away after evangelistic campaigns in which a God of hellfire and anger is preached.

This is what we need today as well: the right pattern of formation and evangelistic witness.

But the typical evangelistic message of today does no such thing.

Most communities have youth and most communities have churches, but what makes the churches with evangelistic youth ministries unique?

Sally Hitchiner takes another look and discovers the unique evangelistic opportunities cathedrals offer each day.

They just do not know of it, since UUs are not evangelistic.

But as Jan Harris pointed out in Christianity Today (April 5, 1993), «One of the biggest beneficiaries of Protestant evangelistic activity in Latin America is the Catholic Church itself.»

This example is a bit extreme, but most strategies at Evangelistic Crusades are only slightly more subtle.

10,000 US$ $ $ will do a significant evangelistic work, or buy land for a school project, an orphanage or anything that can add value to the kingdom of God.

We are constantly besieged by fund - raising campaigns; we are groggy from serving on so many task forces; we are daily informed of new evangelistic strategies.

Although this cartoon is about evangelistic insensitivity, it is true for many Christians (and non-Christians) who are not formally considered evangelists.

While the SBC and several of its entities nearly folded during the depression years, the denomination experienced its greatest growth after World War II as evangelistic efforts, the postwar religious revival, and the baby boom swelled the membership rolls of most congregations.

Those in the episcopate are looking not only for pastoral solutions but also for evangelistic outreach.

The Gospel of John is often seen as «the only evangelistic book of the Bible.»

There is something to this argument, for those attracted to the more evangelistic movements frequently find the sermons in the CSI churches dull, the liturgy stodgy and the call to Christian commitment blown on an uncertain trumpet.

Pastors who preach this way often preach evangelistic sermons, explaining the Gospel, and inviting the people to believe in it.

Next week — Angie Bauman will be talking about her research on effective evangelistic youth ministries.

Several of the allegorical stories are from the my own life, but I also poke fun at some of the popular evangelistic techniques and strategies endorsed and practiced by many Christians in today's churches.

Several years ago, I witnessed the farewell to the last evangelistic missionaries in the north Indian state of Punjab.

This is welcomed by some independent evangelistic groups shaped by a remarkably uncritical faith in the media.

Jitsuo Morikawa gathered around him a group of imaginative younger Christians (including Harvey Cox, at one time), and with them he initiated a program they called Evangelistic Life Styles.

Speaking of evangelistic methods, I should mention many other avenues, like the arts, the humanities, and the social sciences.

Many claimed that the movie would be the greatest evangelistic event ever.

SBC leaders were so grieved over its dwindling evangelistic effectiveness that they appointed a Pastors» Task Force last year to address the stark decline in evangelism and baptism.

This evangelical attitude came as a shock, for initially I had thought that the movement was simply a «Jews for Jesus» extension of previous Hebrew Christian evangelistic organizations that also had been opposed by both Christians and Jews.

Are the days of public evangelistic rallies behind us, or should we get over our British reserve and get stuck in?

But today, more evangelistic energy is being focused on India's tribals, according to Philip, regional director for the Lausanne Movement and editor of Christian Trends, an Indian evangelical magazine.

In the following chapter, I will issue a call to cancel several word - heavy evangelistic programs, and exchange them for a way of life that lives and shares the gospel in a tangible way with others.

@Shelley, The typical right wing Christian sexual ethic promoted in most evangelistic churches is MAN MADE.