Sentences with phrase «into evangelism»

They took the Greek word euangelion, and turned it into evangelism.
The story also shows how much time, energy, and money goes into evangelism preparation and training with the end result being that churches rarely accomplish any actual evangelism.
A 1949 Los Angeles revival turned Mr Graham into evangelism's rising star.
The stories also show how much time, energy, and money goes into evangelism training with the end result being that churches rarely accomplish any actual evangelism.

Not exact matches

Evangelicals and Orthodox participants will have to wait and see whether the reassurances that their concerns were «heard» will be translated into renewed vigor for mission and evangelism and clear biblical commitments.
The lay vocation, as understood by Evangelical Catholicism, is primarily one of evangelism: of the family, the workplace, and the neighborhood, and thus of culture, economics, and politics, bringing the gospel into all of those parts of the world to which the laity have greater access than those who are ordained.
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.
They were brought into sharp contrast by the two «world evangelism» conferences sponsored just a few weeks apart in 1980: the meeting of the WCC Commission on World Mission and Evangelism in Melbourne in May, with the theme, «Your Kingdom Come,» and the Consultation on World Evangelization, sponsored by the Lausanne Committee, in Pattaya, Thailand, in June, with the theme «How Shall They Heevangelism» conferences sponsored just a few weeks apart in 1980: the meeting of the WCC Commission on World Mission and Evangelism in Melbourne in May, with the theme, «Your Kingdom Come,» and the Consultation on World Evangelization, sponsored by the Lausanne Committee, in Pattaya, Thailand, in June, with the theme «How Shall They HeEvangelism in Melbourne in May, with the theme, «Your Kingdom Come,» and the Consultation on World Evangelization, sponsored by the Lausanne Committee, in Pattaya, Thailand, in June, with the theme «How Shall They Hear?»
We get a glimpse into why soul care is essential to evangelism when we look at how Jesus interacts with others in the gospels.
It may indeed be strategic to keep evangelism conferences focused on proclamation of the gospel and not diversify too much into social, cultural and ecumenical concerns, provided the validity of these is granted.
Evangelism did not take into account the initiative and accountability of the converts.
In the late 19th century, under the deforming impact of dispensational pessimism and liberal optimism, the broad river of classical evangelicalism divided into a delta, with shallower streams emphasizing — ecumenism and social renewal on the left and confessional orthodoxy and evangelism on the right.
But when the church isolates evangelism into a separate program or emphasis, then evangelism is suspect.
Watching the Jimmy Swaggart Ministries on television brought me back into an intense interest in the word of God and I am waiting for their World Evangelism Bible College to begin offering online bible college courses, which they say will be soon, but don't know for sure when they will begin.
I teach that evangelism is living life as a relfection of Christ in such a way that we inspire those around us wither into a relationship with HIM or into a deeper relationship with HIM.
I would put every dime I had into extreme evangelism.
Of course, evangelism is important, but the wonderful grace of God is too sweet to be crumpled up into a hollow, cold question.
Jesus, with his «shake the dust off your feet» evangelism philosophy, gets back into the boat without a word and prepares to set sail.
Many people think that Luke 15 is about evangelism, and how God brings unbelievers into His family as believers.
In 2016, the government restricted domestic evangelism as well, sliding laws against sharing faith — in homes, online, or anywhere but recognized church buildings — into an anti-terrorism bill.
In other cases the existing evangelism staff has been attracted to church - growth theory and practice; some staffers have gone to workshops at Pasadena or have otherwise gotten hold of the insights of the movement's theoreticians and incorporated them into their programs.
I don't approve of bringing the church into these places, or associating the name of Jesus with porn, and I do nt approve of a 30 foot penis for the goal of evangelism.
«The goal of evangelism,» says the Reformed Church in America's Equipping the Evangelist, «is not decisions, but incorporation into the body of Christ.»
Weeks before the release of a nearly two - year investigation into allegations of sexual abuse of missionary kids, the Association of Baptists for World Evangelism (ABWE) has fired and replaced its investigator, Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment (GRACE).
A number of communions have done for evangelism what for too long has been done only for Christian education and stewardship: provided extensive training processes, with all the hallmarks of sound pedagogy, insight into personal and social psychology, and good biblical hermeneutics.
But if we are going to be effective in our evangelism, we must reach out to touch the unsaved, because they certainly are not going to come into the church.
I define evangelism as «living our lives in such a way that we reflect the person of Jesus and in so doing we draw those who are not in relationship into a relationship with Jesus, and those who are already in relationship with Jesus into deeper relationship.»
I do not think that asking these sorts of questions is a good way to do evangelism... I do, however, think that these sorts of questions are helpful to ask Christians as a way to gain insight into what sorts of ideas and truths people think are essential to the «gospel» and as a way to see what people think about how to gain or keep eternal life.
The subject of evangelism was drawn into the center of attention of the Assembly by M.M. Thomas in his moderator's report.53 Thomas said that since New Delhi, ecumenism had been marked by two thrusts which made it theologically distinct from the position of the earlier period of the World Council of Churches.
Thus evangelism (the proclamation of the message of eternal salvation to the lost and the incorporations of converts into the church) tends to receive priority over every other activity, including, of course, seeking church unity.
The ethical emphasis in liturgical evangelism calls these secular values into question.
Through its stages of ever - deepening commitment, and its rites of passage that symbolically represent the conversion journey, liturgical evangelism brings the converting person into a supportive community.
World gatherings of the Evangelicals, such as the Berlin Congress on Evangelism in 1966, the Wheaton Congress on World Christian Mission, also in 1966, and the Lausanne International Congress on World Evangelism of 1971, were seen by Winter and others as a response to the absorption of missionary concerns into the World Council of Churches.1
A converted church in a corrupt civilization withdraws to its upper rooms, into monasteries and conventicles; it issues forth from these in the aggressive evangelism of apostles, monks and friars, circuit riders and missionaries; it relaxes its rigorism as it discerns signs of repentance and faith; it enters into inevitable alliance with converted emperors and governors, philosophers and artists, merchants and entrepreneurs, and begins to live at peace in the culture they produce under the stimulus of their faith; when faith loses its force, as generation follows generation, discipline is relaxed, repentance grows formal, corruption enters with idolatry, and the church, tied to the culture which it sponsored, suffers corruption with it.
I have been to a few evangelism crusades, and I always got the uncomfortable feeling that people were coerced into converting.
The encounter of the gospel with the world, whether in evangelism, religious education, apologetics, or theology, requires a deep appreciation of, and initiation into, the varied symbolic expressions of culture.
Yes Yes Yes... but I think the biggest thing is probably getting people into the community and out of their comfort zone (service projects, evangelism, or just spending time).
It seems that every group I run into seems to require talk about sin and hell as part of the evangelism message.
It's much easier and much more glamorous for the Church to invest time and energy into building programs, evangelism techniques, and theological debates.
So stepping into a major - required Evangelism and Spiritual Formation class was not at all what I wanted to do.
Evangelism calls people to look towards that Jesus and commit their life to him, to enter into the kingdom whose king has come in the powerless child of Bethlehem, in the murdered one on the cross.
God brings people into His family in all sorts of ways, and Crusade Evangelism is one of them.
Regardless of size of church or its location, effective youth evangelism is possible when those within the church will take personal responsibility to move beyond thinking and talking about reaching youth for Christ, and put into place the practical steps to equip and assist their youth to witness to their peers.
Instead of pursuing some blend of patriotic evangelism, which has led the Church into toxic places, we can freely and simply humanize the stranger in our midst for the purpose of demonstrating Christ's love.
Well, not getting into the arguments of these other people and whatever email correspondence has taken place in the past, I'd be interested in discussing evangelism, specifically, how you do it.
(2) It has been translated into Spanish and several other languages, and the volume finds wide use by Pentecostal missionaries in the task of training national ministers for evangelism.
This is part of what we do at the Billy Graham Center, different types of research into culture and evangelism, so take the time to read and learn about a unique context where Jesus is as work.
One of the goals of evangelism is to convert these fake Christians into real Christians.
So we (me and my best friend Edwin Colón) started a Bible study, and we began to put into action our Wolf Pack Method of Evangelism, and we invited people in 12 Step Recovery to attend.
He slips into the white house every chance he gets... at least he's not Pat Robertson who used his international evangelism to trade in Blood Diamonds.
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