Sentences with phrase «evangelistic campaigns»

Over-reliance on lavish liturgy or spectacle (common both to liturgical churches and modern evangelistic campaigns) constitutes a radical distortion of the Christian message.

In fact anti-slavery and evangelistic campaigns were (at least initially) considered by the missionaries as separate issues.

Moody believed music would be a valuable tool in his evangelistic campaigns, so when, in 1870, he heard Ira Sankey sing at a YMCA convention, he convinced Sankey to give up a well - paying government career to join him on the sawdust trail.

A domesticated and tailored leftover from the wild and woolly frontier evangelistic campaigns, Mr. Graham is a key figure in relating the established character of this ecumenical religion to the sectarian radicalism of our evangelical religion.

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

For Billy Graham in 1957 to invite participation at his New York City evangelistic campaign from representatives of all willing churches — thereby, opening up a wide array of ecumenical possibilities for former fundamentalists, new - style evangelicals and many mainline Protestants — was indisputably an important action.

He tried to take his evangelistic campaign to Spain instead, but, as even children know from the familiar story of the whale, he wound up in Nineveh after all.

He was active in local church life, preaching once a month in his home church, the Fraumünster; and after his return to Zurich from Japan in 1955 he became involved in an evangelistic campaign — «Tell Zurich» — despite poor health.

Harris quotes a poll taken after a 1992 evangelistic campaign in Costa Rica, for example, which showed that 80 percent of the 5,000 people who said they changed religions as a result of the campaign were back in the Catholic Church within five months.

The magazine also studied a «Here's Life, America» campaign in Indianapolis and Fresno, a multi-media evangelistic campaign based in local churches and drawing heavily on personal contact by telephone.

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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.