Sentences with phrase «gospel as evangelists»

In proclaiming the gospel as evangelists we have been concerned to make a point of contact with the people, but because the faith as thus presented has been set in too narrow a context and has not been addressed to the mind as well as the heart, it has often failed to lead to a permanent and constructive reorientation of life.

Not exact matches

As a matter of fact it is obvious that at least in some instances — one need think only of the Gospel of John — the kerygma was put into the mouth of Jesus by the evangelists.

Its narratives Contain many echoes of the stories in Mark and some of those which occur in Luke, and the evangelist has modified and added to the earlier traditions (his Gospel is generally agreed to be the latest of the four) in such a way as to make them the vehicle for a great body of deep religious truth.

Also evangelists often see social justice as a gutless way of living out the gospel, whereas people engaged in social action often assume the evangelists are hypocritical Bible bashers, but actually we need both proclamation and demonstration.

His Gospel was written, as were those of the other evangelists, to assure believers that their losses and grief, their sorrows and anguish, were not the last word.

As we saw, the early missionaries were evangelists and social reformers in one, because they believed that both functions belonged together in the message of the gospel.

An evangelist, then, is someone who both understands the call of the gospel as found in Scripture and lives it out in their own life as a way to invite other people to believe in Jesus and live out the gospel as well.

Since the gospel is about all of life, then the evangelist who lives the gospel will be showing others how the gospel affects their entire life as well.

The evangelists lives out the gospel in front of others as a way of gathering people together as the church.

One of the most constructive emphases of the Amsterdam Conference was that it is the whole Church — not professional evangelists or even ministers only, but laymen as well — that is called to witness to the gospel and transmit it to others.

To emphasize this close connection, I have suggested elsewhere that the term «gospelist» might be a better translation than «evangelist,» [3] but since this word us unlikely to receive wide acceptance, maybe the word could be translated as «one who teaches the gospel.»

Reflecting the basic orientation of its namesake, the late nineteenth - century evangelist Dwight L. Moody, as well as that of the school he established, Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, the journal has as its main concern the task of evangelism — that is, the preparation for, understanding of, reporting about, and inciting interest in the proclamation of the gospel.

So far as we can tell today, there is no single pericope anywhere in the gospels, the present purpose of which is to preserve a historical reminiscence of the earthly Jesus, although there may be some which do in fact come near to doing so because a reminiscence, especially of an aspect of teaching such as a parable, could be used to serve the purpose of the Church or the evangelist.

Yet as soon as these closing verses of the prologue are connected to the opening words of the evangelist, the body of the gospel that follows must necessarily be included because the subsequent content of Jesus» life elucidates the disclosure of 1:18 b as well as the discrepant eschatologies that are conveyed by the two numerical schemes of verse 17.

Hitchens himself would come to master that medium, as entertainer and evangelist, albeit proffering a very different gospel.

The discourses of Jesus, for example, upon Baptism (3) and upon the Eucharist (6) reflect the same fundamental conception of the significance and necessity of these two rites; that this conception was that of the evangelist is plain, e.g. from 3:16 - 21, where Jesus» words have passed insensibly into the evangelist's reflection upon them; if the evangelist was the son of Zebedee, it would be natural to accept his accounts as substantially correct records of incidents and discourses from Jesus» ministry, but, if he was not, a comparison with the synoptic gospels and with the teaching of Paul and others on the sacraments would suggest doubts as to the historical value of both discourses.

Perhaps as a result of the unsettlement and chaos that accompanied the Jewish rebellion against Rome the evangelist left Palestine for Asia, where he later wrote the gospel, while John was still alive in Palestine, partly from recollections of what the apostle had said or written, but largely from his wider knowledge of traditions about Jesus and his teaching, and in the light of his own interpretation of the teaching and of the significance of the facts of Jesus» life.

The miracles recorded in the gospel follow the same general pattern as in the synoptic gospels, although the tendency of the evangelist to use them as a peg for a controversy or discourse introduces a further artificial element into his gospel.

All the evangelists report facts, and the facts in John's Gospel are just as reliable as those in Matthew's, Mark's, and Luke's.

For this reason the gospels are important witnesses to the life of the church in the time in which they were written, as well as to the life of Jesus which the evangelists endeavour to describe.

Almost all analysis of when, why, where, and how the gospels were written ultimately fails because it neglects the extent to which the evangelists were involved in the transmission of the Christian tradition as well as the extent to which they were free to arrange and rewrite their materials in ways which seemed meaningful to them and to the communities of which they were members.

If those scholars are right to conclude that in the writings of the Apostolic Fathers there are practically no reflections of the synoptic gospels, the Apostolic Fathers stand almost as close to the earliest traditions about Jesus as the synoptic evangelists do.

The 144,000 Jewish evangelists are sealed and given a new song, as they spread the eternal gospel.