Sentences with phrase «evangelistic mission»

when Saul came from Damascus to Jerusalem and whom he Apparently he had been greatly impressed by Saul and felt he would add much to the evangelistic mission in Antioch.

The evangelistic mission of the church has traditionally emphasized proclamation of the gospel of Christ to people of other religions.

These criticisms are true and many of the traditional forms of evangelistic mission will have to change if they are to be accepted.

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.

If we pursue these eccesiological motives, the church will not be an organized closed community marked by rigid boundaries as at present, and competing with religious communities but a congregation of believers meeting for spiritual fellowship around the Word and the Sacraments, meant to equip them for Christian living, struggles of justicefor the people and evangelistic mission in religiously pluralistic or secular social economic and political institutions.

Concretely how do Christians structure the priestly and sacramental life and evangelistic mission of their separate religious congregation, within the framework of their participation in the whole nation's search for a common basis for promoting the politics of democracy and of development with justice for the poor and liberation of the oppressed and for building a common moral social culture to undergird the sense of the larger community based on dignity for all persons and peoples?

As 2014 draws to a close we've also chosen to look back 60 years to when Billy Graham's first evangelistic mission shook the UK.

But the crucial question for evangelistic mission today is how in a changed post-colonial situation the forms of the church and its evangelistic proclamation and the call to conversion and the invitation to join the fellowship of the church may take place within the context of the recognition of religious and cultural plurality and common participation in building a new just society and state.

Hromadka of Czechoslovakia used to speak of the credibility of the evangelistic mission of the church as dependent upon the total life of the church, that is to say, it depends upon the way in which the church makes its prophetic mission of defence of human personhood and peoplehood in society and state and the ability of the church to reconcile diversity within its fellowship of divine forgiveness and become a source of reconciled diversity in the larger society.

There are several crucial issues related to evangelistic mission which are not related particularly to the Indian context, but to the general context of the modern world.

He has transformed the center from a conventional evangelistic mission to an institution which is pioneering in a combined religious and scientific approach.

The Christian Union hosted explicitly evangelistic missions calling students to repent of their sin.

Not exact matches

Some, like Youth with a Mission (with a thousand young people serving one - year terms overseas) and Teen Missions (sending teen - agers on summer work programs and evangelistic teams), offer mission opportunities to a specialized American constiMission (with a thousand young people serving one - year terms overseas) and Teen Missions (sending teen - agers on summer work programs and evangelistic teams), offer mission opportunities to a specialized American constimission opportunities to a specialized American constituency.

Also, in a recent missions newsletter that I read, the writer made this statement, «Of the hundreds of thousands who make decisions for Christ in the evangelistic crusades in the third world nations (like Africa), only a tiny fraction end up regularly attending any church.»

Three different religious orientations will be studied and compared: (1) the evangelistic - authoritarian approaches of the rescue mission and the Salvation Army; (2) a psychologically oriented approach, the Emmanuel Movement; and (3) a permissive, self - help approach, Alcoholics Anonymous.

But is the «ministry» that goes along with them still «evangelistic» in the old missionary sense, i.e., actually uneducated in a pastoral sense and not properly connected with the other dimensions of mission?

In view of such insensitivity, some local churches refuse to cooperate with mission teams, and insist on working only with those development and evangelistic practices that empower the poor without exposing them to the embarrassing rich.

ntensely evangelistic, it also became the largest mission - sending denomination.

«Protestants consider the evangelistic activities of Jehovah's Witnesses to be excessively intrusive and aggressive,» said Michael Cherenkov, the Ukraine - based executive field director for Mission Eurasia.

We all want to be an evangelistic, mission minded church.

Dr. Clinebell takes a practical look at the evangelistic - authoritarian approaches of the rescue mission and the Salvation Army as they seek to help the alcoholic.

Biblical perspectives call for an inclusive perspective in relation to people of other faiths in all mission and evangelistic programmes.

Through its internal life of eucharistic worship, thanksgiving, intercessory prayer, through planning for mission and evangelism, through a daily lifestyle of solidarity with the poor, through advocacy even to confrontation with the powers that oppress human beings, the churches are trying to fulfil this evangelistic vocation.

Many other broadcasters on different occasions have avowed that they are primarily «evangelistic» organizations, fulfilling some functions of the church's mission in complement to the church, but not replacing it.

You know, Billy Graham tried but was never able to come to Utah to hold one of his evangelistic crusades or missions.