Sentences with phrase «from evangelical denominations»

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Because the assemblies and committees of the World Council are peopled by denominational power elites, there is a minimum of the kind of influence from grass - roots evangelicals which tends to moderate the positions and actions of the denominations themselves.

Another church that comes to mind is Missiongathering in San Diego, which is associated with the progressive denomination The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), but which has a very evangelical «feel» to its worship because it attracts a lot of folks who come from evangelical traditions and enjoy evangelical worship but are looking for a church that welcomes LGBT people.

As more mainline denominations ordain openly gay clergy and more states pass same - sex laws, some gay evangelicals — and their allies - are openly deviating from Wheaton's official and long - held positions.

I've been speaking at many small colleges that have historical ties to the oldest mainline denominations in the U.S. I have been noticing something interesting: a terrific hunger for a deeper spirituality on the part of many young people who come from evangelical backgrounds like mine and also like me are looking for something outside of the right wing conservatism they come from.

The missions organization of this branch of Orthodoxy estimates that 80 percent of its converts come from evangelical and charismatic orientations, with 20 percent coming from mainline denominations.

Pentecostals, being rooted or influenced from a Wesleyan / Holiness background, also tend to reject the doctrine of eternal security, a doctrine central to many Mainline and Evangelical denominations.

«Most evangelicals — leaders from all seven denominations — have expressed concerns,» Sergey Rakhuba, president of Mission Eurasia and a former Moscow church - planter, told CT. «They're calling on the global Christian community to pray that Putin can intervene and God can miraculously work in this process.»

On the other hand, self - identified evangelicals are linked among themselves by a set of elective affinities, while belonging to a potpourri of Protestant denominations that display only a limited and variable concern about their own existence in institutional separation from one another, let alone from the Roman Catholic Church.

Yet some evangelical institutions are now growing wary of what they consider the aggressively anti-intellectual leadership of their denominations, and are moving to dissociate themselves from church - controlled governance.

The groups that compose conservative Christendom are marked by distinctive theological stances and sociological dynamics as significant as those that distinguish other church traditions or those that separate evangelical groups from mainline denominations.

(24) The CBN organization in 1978 was drawing more than 55 percent of its partners from the conservative and evangelical denominations, even though as a group they formed a much smaller percentage of the general population.

My background kept me sheltered from the deep mistrust that existed among some Christian denominations, and especially between some Catholics and evangelicals.

easiest way to meet Christians from different churches or denominations like Baptists, Pentecostals, Evangelicals,.

The group, which represents 45,000 churches and more than 60 evangelical denominations, took no action on a letter sent by 25 conservative Christian leaders demanding that the organization restrain its Washington policy director, the Rev. Richard Cizik, from putting forward his views on global warming.