Sentences with phrase «for evangelism»

Last month, more than 100 evangelical leaders gathered at the Billy Graham Center for Evangelism at Wheaton College seeking to better respond to the refugee crisis.

The study was sponsored by the Billy Graham Center for Evangelism at Wheaton College.

a deep passion for evangelism where churches focused on reaching the lost, not just shuffling sheep.

A Christian Digital Media Agency, focused on connecting ministries to people through the power of technology, has launched and organized a training course dubbed «Digital Evangelism Crash Course» — a one day lecture and hands - on training program aimed at empowering churches, evangelists, individuals, and faith based groups with tools for evangelism in this digital age.

As early as 1945, the Church of England's seminal document Towards the Conversion of England concluded: «England will never be converted until the laity use the opportunities for evangelism daily afforded by their various professions, crafts and occupations.»

They could be «effective tools for evangelism.»

He did not adopt a new, better strategy for evangelism based on how those demons responded!

In other words, I thought that the most fertile soil for evangelism in the United States was among those who were already in churches.

Re: «Affiliating with Scout troops also provides an avenue for evangelism, said Pastor David Uth of Orlando.

Rev Canon Chris Russell might not be used to the limelight, but since his appointment as Justin Welby's adviser for evangelism last year, things have started... More

Rev Canon Chris Russell might not be used to the limelight, but since his appointment as Justin Welby's adviser for evangelism last year, things have started to change.

This is an anthology of the monthly letter that R. Fung, a layperson from Hong Kong wrote when secretary for evangelism at the World Council of Churches.

«Good theology increases a sense of zeal for evangelism.

Proficient in managing visitation programs including undertaking training for evangelism and outreach.

However, annoying evangelical billboards just for evangelism sake are annoying on both sides.

The group you meet with for encouragement and prayer should be the group that goes out with you to develop relationships for evangelism and discipleship.

His church, the 1,000 - member Riverfront Baptist Church, partners with many groups, including the Fellowship, the moderate - led state conventions and the Willow Creek Association (created by Bill Hybels's Willow Creek Community Church outside Chicago), to provide resources for evangelism and spiritual growth.

And, the Billy Graham Center is a denominational Switzerland for evangelism — a place (and an associated name) associated with bringing denominations together for conversations about evangelism.

On the other hand, another Barna - affiliated organization called the ACFI reported that the number of churches that equip their members for evangelism is in decline.

Many denominations provide tremendous budgets and staffs for evangelism.

As a result, questions like, What's next for evangelism in a rapidly secularizing culture?

Far from a prescription for evangelism, this is one description in a sea of millions of ways in which the gospel is transmitted from one soul to another.

They disagree with the Witnesses» theology and methodology for evangelism, often seeing their tactics as annoying.

But local expressions of the universal Church that organize for evangelism, ministry, discipleship, accountability, worship, etc. still exert an influence in our relationships, just not the primary one.

Readiness for evangelism: i.e., clarity about the story of one's own beginning and progress in the Christian life, and the ability to tell it so that it connects with the life and faith experience of the listener.

They have the largest base in India and give out about $ 50 million worth of aid each year, but Indian officials say that Compassion and other organizations like it are using humanitarianism as a cover for their evangelism.

One carries the responsibility for preaching, another for the teaching ministry, a third for pastoral care and a fourth for administration, with perhaps a fifth responsible for evangelism and missions.

So, I seek your prayer, guidance, resource, training, partnership and fellowship and assistance for evangelism and church planting.

Interestingly enough, no one in that process sought to determine whether the vote for evangelism was a positive one, or whether it was a vote against programs of social involvement.

One step involved creating a position for a staff officer for evangelism in the national church structure and launching evangelism programs and promotion.

For that speech to be useful for evangelism and outreach, it must somehow share in and appropriate the art forms of the culture in which it finds itself.

Most of the street evangelists talked about being secure in God's love and in our identity in Christ as an important foundation for evangelism.

The churches have just completed two decades devoted to each of these emphases in turn, the 1960s for social action and the 1970s for evangelism.

This doesn't mean that we should squander our creativity trying to think up new gimmicks for evangelism, as so many do.

«His passion for serving God through the Church coupled with his vision for evangelism will be such an asset to our movement.

With all the property churches have in camps and conference centers, it shouldn't be difficult to find places to bring families together for evangelism, evangelism training and consciousness - raising.

A number of communions have done for evangelism what for too long has been done only for Christian education and stewardship: provided extensive training processes, with all the hallmarks of sound pedagogy, insight into personal and social psychology, and good biblical hermeneutics.

Over and over again, when people are asked to strategize for evangelism, their first thought is to turn to those in their own congregation — active members in most cases.

they are being hated for their evangelism (the pompousness involved in preaching in the name of god), and for using those beliefs to deny others» civil rights.

Each church must carefully listen to and follow up on the truth of Eternity, and the Gospel should be expressed in a very flexible way for evangelism.

In fairness, Wilkinson discourages using the Jabez prayer for self - aggrandizement, and he defines enlargement of territory in terms of ministerial opportunities — expanded occasions for evangelism and godly influence.

All the hoopla about online chat aside, there might be some opportunities for enlivening discourse among seminary students and faculty, within congregations, across denominations and perhaps even between different Christian groups around the world, Here's a cosmic thesis: the most interactive technologies, and the most dialogic uses of technologies, offer the greatest potential for both evangelism and community.

The Church of England recently had a week of prayer for evangelism.

Michael Green is an academic with a heart for evangelism and not afraid of a fight.