Sentences with phrase «evangelistic missionaries»

Still, there is something poignant about the shifting of eras, and a small event — the farewell of the last evangelistic missionaries in north India — may signal the shape of a much larger history.

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

The Christian Century for December 22, 1976, carried a discerning article by Mark Juergensmeyer on «The Fading of an Era,» in which he vividly described the departure of the «last evangelistic missionary couple» from the Punjab state of north India and saw that departure as signifying the end of the «great missionary era of the...

Mrs. McKelvey looked at me sternly and said, «The only true missionary is an evangelistic missionary, you know.

It is perhaps too early yet to say whether this is the form into which the earlier unilateral preaching of the evangelistic missionary movement is being transformed; there seem to be forces working in that direction, not the least being the vitality of the faiths addressed.

Not exact matches

To the Third World ambivalence about missionaries, they respond either by playing down the role of missionaries or by trying to move from «old style» (evangelistic) to «new style» (social change or institutional support) missionaries.

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?

Embracing relativity will end for all time the religious imperialism that has far too often been a mark of evangelistic and missionary endeavors.

The first missionary came for evangelistic work in October 1834, and tomorrow — April 26, 1971 — the last missionaries would leave.

Dominic's missionary zeal flowed directly out of cloistered contemplation, but it convinced him of the need for a new evangelistic order.

Yet from Luke's account in Acts, Ephesus and Corinth are Paul's crowning missionary and evangelistic achievements, and of the two, Ephesus seems to transcend Corinth.

In our time through the growth of the younger churches, through a discovery of our evangelistic task in many countries, the Spirit makes us aware of the great need to grasp and clarify the essential connection between the missionary function of the Church (its apostolate) and its obligation to be one (its catholicity).

Further, most lay people in Pentecostal churches are committed to evangelistic and missionary activities, and many are not even aware of the ecumenical movement, much less of developments in the ecumenical world.

Insofar as the anointing of individuals is central to Pentecostal missionary and evangelistic activities, what about the church's corporate witness on issues related to peace and social justice?

Because our overhead costs are low, we are able to support missionaries throughout the world, Because our members are active, we are able to finance and engage in a variety of evangelistic, educational and justice ministries locally, and to partner with local congregations in many parts of the world.

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

Mormon evangelistic success, Gilpin says, stems largely from a profound commitment to the training and rigorous operation of missionaries.

Several western and some Indian writers have stated that the Indian church had no missionary zeal and it was only later through the contact with European missionaries that evangelistic spirit was awakened in the church.

For this purpose many Christians vigorously and enthusiastically engaged in missionary and evangelistic work.

The significant proportion of evangelicals within the ecumenically organized denominations has not — even if some still hope to do so — countered the drift to theological pluralism, to missionary and evangelistic retrenchment, to social - action priorities, to debatable hierachical commitments that some aroused church members and many of the clergy resent.

The first and most noticeable of the new - wave movements derives from the explosion of evangelistic, fundamentalist and pentecostal activity in the West, giving rise to new missionary efforts in India.

There are neglected impulses toward Christian unity latent within the conservative, and even fundamentalist, sector of American evangelicalism: a passionate concern for theological truth - telling, an unflinching allegiance to the holy scriptures, an evangelistic and missionary impulse to share the Good News of Jesus Christ with all persons everywhere, an ecclesiological postulate of an invisible church known only to God.

These final chapters in Acts bring to a close all that Luke tells us of Paul's evangelistic and missionary career.