Sentences with phrase «great missionary»

It is in this remarkable heritage comes David Livingstone who was not only a great missionary of Africa but also an outstanding explorer, geographer, doctor, anthropologist and scientist.

Philip Potter, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, in his inaugural address spoke of the Council as being the inheritor of the great missionary movement.

This book is a study of the great missionary conferences covering the period of the first world missionary conference at Edinburgh 1910 to the last ecumenical conference at Salvador 1996.

But after some encouraging beginnings, particularly in Africa and in the Pacific, the great missionary expansion of the last two centuries has now ground down to a dead slow.

From the time when the Pope divided the new geographical world between Spain and Portugal until the great missionary expansion of the nineteenth century, it was the firm belief of Christian Europe that the Christian religion of the European pattern must eventually encompass the earth.

It was a church on fire with great missionary zeal.

The Nestorian church with which the Indian church established ecclesiastical relationships since the fourth century was a great missionary church.

And this great missionary zeal is evident in his first Apostolic Exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium: «I dream of a «missionary option», that is, a missionary impulse capable of transforming everything, so that the Church's customs, ways of doing things, times and schedules, language and structures can be suitably channelled for the...

And this great missionary zeal is evident in his first Apostolic Exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium: «I dream of a «missionary option», that is, a missionary impulse capable of transforming everything, so that the Church's customs, ways of doing things, times and schedules, language and structures can be suitably channelled for the evangelisation of today's world.»

As we mentioned earlier, there were Arab Christians throughout the eastern part of the Roman empire as well as in Persia, and a church with a great missionary spirit might have taken the Gospel to Arabia at an earlier date, probably by the end of the second or early third century.

Wimber believed power evangelism was the most effective means of evangelism in the early church and power evangelism was present during periods of great missionary expansion and renewal throughout church history.

It would not be the same Christian community, of course, as it had been during the great missionary epoch.

I had been doing research in the Punjab on the social movements of the oppressed untouchables, many of whom had joined the Christian church during the great missionary era; so it was an event of sociological interest to me and to the lower - caste community of converts.

He was a wonderful teacher and missionary — think of World Youth Day and all those great missionary journeys...»

The Christian Century for December 22, 1976, carried a discerning article by Mark Juergensmeyer on «The Fading of an Era,» in which he vividly described the departure of the «last evangelistic missionary couple» from the Punjab state of north India and saw that departure as signifying the end of the «great missionary era of the...

The great missionary God expresses his love for the world he has created by sending his Son, who reveals the character of that sending through his death on the cross.

The Johannine commission uses the Greek cognate for «mission», and roots mission in the work of the great missionary God rather than in a great missionary commission: «As the Father has sent me, so send I you,» said Jesus.

At one time one of the great missionary faiths of the world, it has declined under persecution, or pressure from without, until there remain only a little more than a hundred thousand Zoroastrians in the whole world.

If great missionary expansion took place in the nineteenth century, the twentieth century saw important developments in mission theology.

I think of David Livingston, the great missionary to Africa, who had what seemed to be little fruit during his missionary journey.

Paul, the man who was responsible for persecuting other Christians, turned out to be one of the greatest missionaries in the world.

It was the primary version during the 1700 and 1800s which was the greatest missionary period.

Moses murdered an Egyptian (Exod 2:12), David had Uriah killed (2 Sam 11:14 - 17), and even Paul went about arresting and killing Christians before he became one of the greatest missionaries the world has ever seen (Acts 8:1 - 3).

He is probably the greatest missionary the world has ever seen, he wrote a large percentage of the Christian Scriptures, he was a champion of God's grace and of the Gospel for the Gentiles, and he had a theological mind and loving heart like none other.

As the greatest missionary and follower of Christ, I think his writings account for something.

It is probably true to say that the greatest missionary contribution was in terms of educational and medical work.

David Livingstone (1813 - 73), the greatest missionary to Africa, started his work in South Africa, but his urge to explore, together with his Christian faith, led him to make many journeys into the interior.

Not exact matches

No one ever argues that the missionaries / catholic charities don't do great work — they do.

It was prophecied in Jeremiah 16 that a greater work than that of Moses would occur — that of gathering of the house of Israel — and one fulfillment of that prophecy is the establishment and missionary effort of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - Day Saints.

The first great Jesuit missionary, Francis Xavier, became a celebrity in his own lifetime thanks to his success converting thousands in India and his daring (if unsuccessful) efforts in Japan.

it might be right to follow the wise advice of Pope Gregory the Great to that timid and novice missionary, St Augustine of Canterbury.

Veteran SIM missionary Howard Brant celebrates that «the two groups are coming closer and closer together» in Ethiopia, which he calls «one of the great success stories of evangelical Christianity.»

While the Churches were seeking common grounds in missionary work and doctrinal discussion, they found an area where they could exert even greater co-operation — the life of working together in facing the social tasks of the Church.

I am available to advise any missionaries interested in doing a mission work in Africa on how to be cost effective, yet with great results / fruits for the Lord's kingdom.

All this effort for greater co-operation in missions produced the International Missionary Council as the successor to Dr. Mott's committee.

Your thoughts are great and there are very few people who have such a heart and who are willing to help native missionaries to impact their villages, cities and nations — we have to agree, native missionaries are more effective than visiting missionaries.

I am available to advise any missionaries interested in doing a mission work in Africa on how to be cost effective, yet with great results / fruits for the Lord's kingdom as per mission field they are going / or are interested in.

There are still great native missionaries who will work unto changing their communities and people towards the values of Christ.

Sitting in his cramped cubicle in the Johns Hopkins University Medical Center, he says with quiet passion, «There is a great deal of missionary work that can be done right here in this country.

Gregory, later named «the Great,» who had been caught up in the first flush of the Benedictine movement and had devoted his inherited wealth to the poor and the Church, sent the famous contingent of Roman monk - missionaries to Britain.

The most famous Irish missionary to the Frankish kingdoms was St Columbanus (c.543 - 6l5), who was a contemporary of Gregory the Great.

Two of the greatest Irish missionaries, Columban in the Frankish domains and Columba in Scotland, made their original excursion from their homeland with twelve companions, presumably in imitation of Jesus and his apostles.

So, a proper understanding of Luke's great reversal condemns me for sitting on my missionary judgment seat about the golden egg.

Such an oversimplification ignores the biographical, religious and political realities running through the history of Christian missions during the «great century» and long before, as missionaries have, in the name of Jesus, striven to understand and learned to respect the particularities of the cultures to which they have come.

The greatest of them was Paul, radically converted from a life of persecuting the Christians to be the first great evangelist, missionary, theologian, and administrator of the Christian Church.

The great period of evangelism and Christian missionary expansion was the 19th century.

One missionary observed that Christianity offered Pulayas «deliverance from the fear of the devil, whom they stand in the greatest terror.»

This is especially true if these Christians are «missionaries» who are headed to another country to «carry out the great commission.»

Both converts and missionaries considered baptism to be an event of great importance.

Yet there was in early Christianity another path from Jesus to the church, less dramatic than the great theologian and missionary Paul, but more pervasive in the actual life of early Christians: the Gospel of Mathew!