Sentences with phrase «greatest evangelistic»

Many claimed that the movie would be the greatest evangelistic event ever.

Billy Graham is on record saying that great evangelistic gatherings to which he has devoted his life will not do the job, but one on one will!

In particular it has been found that in most cases co-operation in the great evangelistic task stops at the point where pastoral care is needed for the building up of the Church.

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It seems clear that Emmanuel's psychotherapy offered greater possibility of lasting personality change than was true in the evangelistic approaches.

If in Emerson's words «Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man'there's no doubt that the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association's commitment to accountability is both a true reflection of Graham and a key reason why he has remained free of financial scandal.

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...

While the SBC and several of its entities nearly folded during the depression years, the denomination experienced its greatest growth after World War II as evangelistic efforts, the postwar religious revival, and the baby boom swelled the membership rolls of most congregations.

But the analysis in Reveal, which surveyed congregants at Willow Creek and six other churches, suggested that evangelistic impact was greater from those who self - reported as «close to Christ» or «Christ - centered» than from new church attendees.

In our time through the growth of the younger churches, through a discovery of our evangelistic task in many countries, the Spirit makes us aware of the great need to grasp and clarify the essential connection between the missionary function of the Church (its apostolate) and its obligation to be one (its catholicity).

«Bigness» is, moreover, a «powerful evangelistic tool «28 and provides the resources necessary for effective programs of worship and ministry.29 The local church is here viewed as a mechanism with the capacity for greater or lesser efficiency in doing the work of God.

Moody, Beecher, and Brooks made far greater impact on the cities of the late nineteenth century than any other three ministers of that period, and Moody was chiefly noted for his evangelistic techniques and abilities; Beecher and Brooks for their preaching.

What denominational leaders want most from their presses — greater revenues and materials specific to the denomination's «own» programs — strongly suggests that they view Protestant renewal chiefly as an organizational matter: build a stronger organization, one with increased financial resources and more evangelistic «team spirit,» and decline will be arrested.

In his statement on Facebook, Graham, leader of both the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan's Purse, said, «I don't know all the details, but I would encourage our president to give great consideration to the threat to lives of Christians in countries like Iraq.»

In spite of these findings, religious broadcasters continue to affirm the great contribution they are making to the evangelistic outreach of the church.