Dr Rachel Jordan, national mission and evangelism adviser for the Church of England, said: «The aim was to gather key Christian leaders to
focus on evangelism; to understand the current trends in our population with regard to Christian faith and to commit to prayer and action together to help many more people become followers of Jesus.»
In a «great reversal» (Smith's term), evangelicals retreated from these reformist efforts around the turn of the century, fostering instead a social pessimism and an almost exclusive
focus on evangelism and individual piety.
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?
I can't say we're persecuted in any real sense in Utah, but on a very subtle level, it is different than it was in California, and there just isn't spiritual time or energy for the debates that there once was; we're
focused on evangelism and getting the truth that we - do - agree on out there.
Manor House was run by the Irish Church Missions group, which particularly
focuses on evangelism.
Booth's organization
focused on evangelism, announcing, «The Christian Mission has met in Congress to make War.
Not exact matches
With Okta since early 2010, he is currently
focused on company and product strategy, product management, product marketing, technical marketing and platform
evangelism.
They are willing to engage in joint evangelization efforts with the indigenous churches in reaching their own people, or to
focus through cross-cultural
evangelism on areas not yet reached by the national churches.
I've been devastated to find that satan has planted himself so firmly into the church and is leading people away from the truth about who Jesus is and what He did
on the cross, and keeping Christians from prayer and
evangelism,
focusing instead
on attacking believers and turning them from simple faith in Christ to Calvinism.
The leadership would have a way of maintaining regular contact with everyone in the congregation, and I could
focus on preaching,
evangelism, administration, benevolence, hospital visitation, community involvement, and offering common services.
a deep passion for
evangelism where churches
focused on reaching the lost, not just shuffling sheep.
It may indeed be strategic to keep
evangelism conferences
focused on proclamation of the gospel and not diversify too much into social, cultural and ecumenical concerns, provided the validity of these is granted.
for one group that gathers
on a certain day in a certain place to
focus more
on teaching and knowledge gifts, and not as much
on service and
evangelism, while another group at another place and time
focuses on service and
evangelism, but not as much
on teaching and knowledge, and that from God's perspective, this is all okay?
Perhaps that's why
evangelism in many UK churches for the past 20 years or so has tended to
focus on Alpha courses or inviting friends to church: what we now refer to as «friendship»
evangelism.
David Hubbard, for example, in his taped remarks
on the future of evangelicalism to a colloquium at Conservative Baptist Theological Seminary in Denver in 1977 noted the following areas of tension among evangelicals: women's ordination, the charismatic movement, ecumenical relations, social ethics, strategies of
evangelism, Biblical criticism, Biblical infallibility, contextual theology in non-Western cultures, and the churchly applications of the behavioral sciences.2 If such a list is more exhaustive than those topics which this book has pursued, it nevertheless makes it clear that the
foci of the preceding chapters have at least been representative.
What is more, the aim of mission became
focused exclusively
on evangelism techniques and lost the fuller picture of what biblical mission is.
Evangelism can be very well done if we
focus on loving and serving others as a large part of it.
We can not earn our way to heaven by following and obeying the laws of Jesus, that is discipleship and is not the way to heaven What if we didn't
focus so much
on evangelism, but
on discipleship?
It might help that I am not heavily
focused on ideas like conversion and
evangelism.
Evangelicals in the later decades of the 20th century rejected the widespread embrace of universalism, a one - sided
focus on social justice, and neglect of
evangelism in the World Council of Churches and many mainline denominations.
Most old
evangelism tools have an almost exclusive
focus on what Jesus did
on the cross and never mentions what Jesus taught before he got there.
These are the social - gospel churches, which
focus on need - based
evangelism.
I highly herald it, as does each advocate of Free Grace theology,
focusing very hard
on it in
evangelism, as each advocate of Free Grace theology does.
Those in Free Grace theology
FOCUS VERY CLOSELY
on Christ's death and resurrection, His work and His Person when doing
evangelism.
Amazon appears to have many more people
focused on Alexa
evangelism and business development.
Major reform is necessary within the Foundation, as its members seem to be
focused on their own personal agendas instead of
on advocacy, adoption, and
evangelism as it should be.