Sentences with phrase «from evangelism»

Nor, in his view, do pastors fare much better in the parish, where they find themselves awash in books detailing the success stories of particular ministers and congregations and in practical how - to - do - it manuals on everything from evangelism to stewardship generated out of programmatic approaches to questions of growth, size and organizational effectiveness.

The Presbyterian Church, U.S., is a good example of those denominations that refuse to separate Kingdom issues from evangelism.

There certainly are good results from Evangelism Crusades.

They note also that Wesley devoted time and attention to physical health, even if he separated this somewhat from his evangelism.

«But it's dangerous to divide entertainment from evangelism.

Not exact matches

Second opinions, she adds, can keep you from succumbing to a start - up's evangelism.

I can and do love and listen to the Buddhist, the Hindu, the Muslim, and the Mormon, but if I do not pray nor challenge them with truth in the long run then I am simply performing an act of contextualization — which is a far cry from the true seed planting of evangelism.

From the outside it may seem obvious to you, but I personally know a lot of people who would describe Catholicism as a cult, and still others who would say the same thing about Pentecostalism, Mormonism, Evangelism, and a few others.

For us relativists, evangelism, and the perception by the church that this is the «great commission» from Christ, is the irreconcilable difference.

Teaching from the pulpit, for example, that God willed Adam and Eve to sin, that cancer is predestined by God, that prayer doesn't cause anything to change in the world, and that evangelism has no purpose since sheep are sheep and goats are goats?

So from that perspective alone, the «bloody head evangelism» application is illegitimate.

Over the years, I have observed the bulk of the Evangelical fleet drift — and then in desperation for some greater motivation, change fuels — from the open - arms gasoline of evangelism meetings, to the super-sparks of charismatic gifts, to the sluggish - diesel of homogenized Biblical theology, to the stuttering - and - sparkle fuel of Christian music, to the nitro - flamed - fuel of hating gays, and now to the turbo - charged hatred of illegal aliens at home and Muslims overseas.

Aside from being a terrible application of this passage, such an approach to evangelism is simply scary, and probably does more damage than good.

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.

For John Paul II's 1990 encyclical Redemptoris Missio, the Magna Carta of the New Evangelization, called for urgent evangelism among Christians who had fallen away from the practice of the faith, or had been poorly catechized, or, more likely, had suffered both maladies, the latter contributing to the former.

What do we learn from this critical incident about the ministry of evangelism?

Governmental restrictions include items such as blasphemy laws, bans against evangelism, and preventing religious groups from constructing houses of worship.

I have seen so much evil done to people in the Name of Jesus from the institutions / parachurch orgs / evangelism that when someone tells me they are a pastor my first reaction is not what they might expect.

His method of evangelism varied from person to person and generally involved a dramatic change of lifestyle rather than a simple change of mind.

Alexandru Stan of the Romanian Orthodox Church summarized some of the thinking of the Eastern Church, from the time of Justin Martyr, on the presence of God in all peoples, Christian and non-Christian alike; Metropolitan George Khodr of Beirut extended Orthodox thinking on the wide and restless work of the Holy Spirit; and Bishop Anastasios Yannoulatos of the Greek Orthodox Church offered a perspective shaped by his work as moderator of the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism.

Furthermore, it has become increasingly evident that although seeker sensitive churches do grow numerically, most of their growth is transfer growth from other churches, rather than actual evangelism growth.

, I am without any hesitation asked for financial support, more support and even more support (OK, I accept that may sometimes be culture — but is not healthy...) and any friendly response from me is cultivated and I suddenly find myself fundraising... — if I would be allowed to spend $ 100K I would rather spend this NOT on evangelism by a Westerner, but also NOT on a local evangelist, but on quality leadership / bible college training for African leaders.

I think most of our evangelism methods, particularly many of the seeker - movement methods from the 80s and 90s really appealed to people's religious memory.

Another factor in the greater success of this approach is the eclectic spirit (as distinguished from the exclusivistic spirit of the mission) in which the resources of social work, psychiatry, medicine, and AA have been integrated with their basic evangelism.

I'm not keen on evangelism from any quarter — it would be great to live in a world in which one's spirituality and one's belief system aren't things you must insist that others join in order to feel that they are valid, or in order to hold that other person in high esteem.

In the Missouri Synod Lutheranism of my childhood, the style of evangelism was not much different from that of today's SBC.

Barna recently released research saying, «Among the interesting facets of the research was that just 1 % of believers claim to have the gift of evangelism (down from 4 % five years ago).»

And does not the balance of Scripture indicate that success in evangelism springs from spiritual renewal?

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.

A new study from Barna is overturning some long - held assumptions about Christian Millennials and how prone they are to evangelism.

But I don't think the child who hides from Mama or sneaks a cookie from the cookie jar is eligible for this «blotting» to occur & «evangelism» messages that paint God as such a monster are NOT good news.

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?

Judging from the agenda then apparent in the minds of young evangelicals and charismatics, I viewed the completed shape of the awakening as including new levels of theological and spiritual depth, a reinvigoration of the ecumenical impulse, and a return to the balance of nurture, evangelism and social transformation present in the original evangelicalism of the 18th and 19th centuries.

The results were published in a pamphlet titled «What We Learned from What You Said,» and evangelism and Christian education were the top two priorities listed.

Personal religious experience, the home, other religions, church membership, missions, the Scriptures, doctrine, Christian action, the ecumenical movement, church history, Methodist heritage, evangelism, and Christian education — each of these is considered and thoughtfully interpreted from the Christian viewpoint, book by book.

A while back I wrote about how confrontational evangelism turns way more people away from Jesus than toward Him.

It would be easy to conclude from Weigel's discussion that the purpose of intellectual life is «catechesis and evangelism» — that is, the instillation and dissemination of correct opinions — and that its enemies are people with false opinions, modernists and post-modernists.

Most pastors believe the best way to keep Christian - Muslim relations calm is to maintain a low profile in terms of evangelism and gripes, to hunker down, protect the real estate from vultures without and within the community, maintain good relations with the Muslim power brokers and hope that the Christian poor will remain faithful.

This book aims at applying some insights from pastoral psychology to the major dimensions of a church's program — worship, preaching, the prophetic ministry, the church school, the group life, the family - life program, administration and evangelism — as a way of mining this ore.

This latter concern may evoke an outreach program named evangelism, but the content will only be the worst kind of public relations, and the gain will be about as durable as the product loyalties that derive from commercial hype.

While Students for Life advances Gospel values in their admirable pro-life work, their strategy prevents them from making evangelism an explicit core commitment.

But as mainline denominations moved away from dependence on revivals and mass evangelism, they came to apply the optimism of perfection more to the arena of social transformation than to the sphere of personal sanctification.17 The result was that Methodist devotion to entire sanctification had to find expression outside the denomination in so - called Holiness groups.

The article has it wrong from the beginning sentence: Billy Graham is not the dean of American evangelism.

Evidence from the conflicting theological heritages of evangelicals reveals polarities Evangelism and social justice, political power and the power of servanthood, the individual and the community, love and justice]-- all show a need for dialogue between the competing traditions.

The «reformists» altered the position of social action from that of a subset of, or consequence of, evangelism to that of an equal partner with evangelism in the mission task of the church.

According to Lindsell, for example, given a retreat from inerrancy, there is an almost inevitable decline in Christian zeal and evangelism, a tendency toward spiritual sloth, and a high likelihood of apostasy.

I am thankful for the Humanitarian Disaster Institute at Wheaton College, the Billy Graham Center for Evangelism, and Wheaton College who put their weight behind this event from the beginning.

Generally these are local people already fully employed as pastors or in the secular world who can arrange «to free up» some time to respond to calls from churches in their home areas to do evangelism training or carry out preaching missions.

A word of caution is in order: the materials used for this study — a two - foot - high pile of manuals, textbooks, pamphlets and memos — came from denominational secretaries of evangelism.

Evangelism in the U.S. today, as practiced by the denominations, is a very different thing from what it has been in the past — and it is constantly changing.