Sentences with phrase «life as a missionary»

Live as missionaries right now, wherever we are, and whatever we are doing.

Speaking at the San Antonio Conference, Lesslie Newbigin made reference to his own cultural background in these terms: «As I look back on my own life as a missionary in India, I realize now in a way that I never did at that time that I was not only carrying the gospel but that I was also a carrier of this so - called modern world - view which I now see to be breaking down because it is false.

During the five years I lived as a missionary / student in Romania, I was confronted with many questions: How has my culture cluttered my view of the gospel?

Not exact matches

Boots celebrated life with her family, traveled the world, served as a medical missionary, and drove convertibles.

I am also a life long Mormon, having served as a missionary just like many, many other LDS men and women.

He refused to believe that Vatican II, the ecumenical council he had experienced as a powerful work of the Holy Spirit, could only lead to permanent incoherence and division in Catholicism; and by providing an authoritative interpretation of the Council, John Paul II's pontificate energized the living parts of the Church and made Vatican II the launch platform for the new evangelization and for the Church's rediscovery of itself as a missionary enterprise.

What we meant to model was the sending of one of our number to be a foreign missionary — to learn a new language, to understand a local culture, to sacrifice the amenities of affluence and to live knowing that he or she is always being watched by seekers — while the rest of us stay here as lifetime local missionaries, learning to speak the language of the unchurched, understanding secular culture, sacrificing the amenities of affluence and living as a «watched» person in a society that is skeptical of Christian spirituality until it sees the real thing on display.

A son of missionary parents who spent most of his life and career in Latin America, he had served as president of a conference in the American South for the past five years.

Monks and Missionaries As Christianity became culturally assimilated, monks sought to live pure Christian lives by separating themselves from society and taking the gospel to Europe.

Out of all this insanity comes the very wise perspective of a woman who identifies herself as «the very worst missionary,» but who is pretty much «the very best blogger» when it comes to speaking frankly about faith in real life.

A missionary kid living in Quito, Ecuador, Chad had begun using, and then selling, drugs as a teenager, in an environment far more dangerous than in the United States.

Lim follows a spate of Western missionaries who have been arrested in North Korea, which has spent the last 13 years topping Open Doors» World Watch List as the worst place for Christians to live.

As mystics and missionaries, heroic martyrs and courageous founders of religious orders, in public life as sovereigns or in quiet service in convent or school, the Church's women saints are testimony to the fact that Mother Church takes legitimate pride in her daughterAs mystics and missionaries, heroic martyrs and courageous founders of religious orders, in public life as sovereigns or in quiet service in convent or school, the Church's women saints are testimony to the fact that Mother Church takes legitimate pride in her daughteras sovereigns or in quiet service in convent or school, the Church's women saints are testimony to the fact that Mother Church takes legitimate pride in her daughters.

As centuries of missionary endeavour have shown, pagan and semi-pagan people can be taught, helped, and encouraged to live glorious Christian lives from inauspicious beginnings.

As a missionary in Uganda, there was little that surprised me after a while of living cross-culturally, but it took me a moment to realize that the fresh, brown egg (there are ways of deducing that an unwashed egg is fresh) was indeed a purposeful offering.

This is not bad, but a missionary will often get a job in the community so he or she can live and work among the people, and be seen as one of them.

Both white and black missionaries understood conversion to Christianity as meaning adoption of a European style of living.

Now, at the end of the modern age, the success of that missionary project (and especially of the apprehension of the gospel along the indigenous side of the line between missionary and convert) emerges as perhaps the most important factor in world Christian life today.

Volunteer groups should not provide employment to local gringo wannabe elites — or northern missionaries living in the South — who act in the name of the poor but actually erect barriers to true encounters because such encounters would threaten their privileged role as interlocutors.

Indeed, already in 1913 the missionary scholar J N Farquhar noted that «the life of India is dominated by the future, by the vision of the brilliant happy India that is to rise as a result of the united toil and self - sacrifice of her sons.»

Shahzad Masih and Shama Bibi were bonded laborers (seen by many as a modern form of slavery) at a brick - making kiln who lived in a small Punjab town named for the first Anglican missionary to Pakistan.

With extensive expert testimony, the plaintiffs made the case that secular humanism functions in many respects for its adherents as a religion (with ministers, fellowship, ceremonies marking the milestones of life, and a missionary program), and that it has many of the substantive characteristics of a religion as well, including a coherent interpretation of all of reality.

Monastic missionaries, both women and men, would live among and educate the so - called «barbarians,» only later to give in to the tactics of a Charlemagne pressing the monasteries into strategies of Western empire - building, which, in turn, evoked ongoing reforms as wealth dulled and darkened a genuine Christian discipleship (CSP 1 - 43).

Asked for a wish - list of what might help to arrest the decline of the Church in its former heartlands, he is emphatic and seems to relish making a list... one which rather chimes with what many other thinking Catholics would offer: «1) strong, evangelically assertive bishops who know how to handle the media and can call the people of the Church to live out their vocation as missionary disciples.

Proposition 7: New Evangelisation as a Permanent Missionary Dimension of the Church It is proposed that the Church proclaim the permanent worldwide missionary dimension of her mission... to • evangelise those who do not know Jesus Christ; • [to support] the continuing growth in faith that is the ordinary life of the Church; • to [reach out to] those who have become distant from tMissionary Dimension of the Church It is proposed that the Church proclaim the permanent worldwide missionary dimension of her mission... to • evangelise those who do not know Jesus Christ; • [to support] the continuing growth in faith that is the ordinary life of the Church; • to [reach out to] those who have become distant from tmissionary dimension of her mission... to • evangelise those who do not know Jesus Christ; • [to support] the continuing growth in faith that is the ordinary life of the Church; • to [reach out to] those who have become distant from the Church.

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.

Hall addresses with the question How shall we be able to fashion our life as the community of Christ's disciples (after all, our only raison d'être), and how shall we carry on as a missionary faith, in a world that is multicultural and pluralistic?

the emphasis on «new forms» of missionary action has incurred the criticism that this study is not living up to its title insofar as it does not show great interest in the work of existing congregations where, it is said, the church after all carries on its major work....

Historian David Bebbington suggests a respected paradigm for those who identify as an evangelical: a transformed life through following Jesus, faith demonstrated through missionary and social reform efforts, a regard for the Bible as ultimate authority, and a central focus on the sacrificial death of Jesus.

The «missionary» enterprise on this model thus becomes an identifying, a naming, and an explication of the structure of grace so as to facilitate its greater actualization in the lives of persons with all sorts of relations to the «Christian phylum» (Teilhard).

We have there a valid yardstick to apply to our lives as individual Christians, local congregations and as missionary people of God in the world.

As the world becomes smaller, it is possible even for Christians living far away to be aware of and inspired by faithful missionary engagement in a local situation.

Back then, when someone explicitly identifies him or herself as a «Christian», the image is someone who does missionary work, living among peasant villages, not to prosyletyze but to provide education, basic health care, and crisis relief.

But those who participate in the internal history of the covenant will see the call of Abraham, the Exodus from Egypt, the lives of the prophets, Israel and Judah's release from captivity, the disciples» missionary fervor after the death of Jesus, and the establishment of the Church as all having a promissory significance that a «scientific» historian might not appreciate at all.

Luke's presentation of speaking in tongues as speaking real foreign languages confirmed the missionary thrust of life in the Spirit.

The film begins not with the missionaries, whose plight captured a shocked nation's attention through stunning coverage in Life magazine, but with the indigenous Waodani people, known derisively as the «Auca,» which (loosely translated) means «naked savages.»

In the choice of this central theme, the missionary movement came into the same stream of thought as two other branches of the ecumenical movement, namely, the Faith and Order, and Life and Work movements.

View 1 is that of «colonial missions» in which missionaries see the gospel as «acultural and ahistorical»; or according to which missionaries recognize the need for some adjustment to culture but tend to look down on other cultures as primitive and inferior; to emphasize form more than meaning; and to introduce Western ways of living and worship.

This is inherent in the very nature of the Church as the Body of Christ created by God to continue in the world the work which Jesus Christ began in His life and teaching, and consummated by His death and resurrection».35 It is the church that is God's missionary to the world.

Chungichnish (or Chinigchinish), a god of the Luiseño (Southern California) already known to the Franciscan missionaries, has been considered by A. L. Kroeber as «a living god that watches and punishes, a kind of Jahve.»

The fact is that the «foreign» missionary presence in the life of any church should serve as a particular reminder of the «alien» nature of the gospel to every nation and culture.

Frontiersmen were hard on the easterners who could not take the rugged western life, but they had only respect and esteem for men such as Marcus Whitman, Presbyterian doctor and missionary.

As an LDS (Mormon) missionary in Montevideo, Uruguay in the mid-1960's, I had the opportunity to stand within 20 feet of Dr. Graham as he gave a masterful sermon about Christ, his ministry and lifAs an LDS (Mormon) missionary in Montevideo, Uruguay in the mid-1960's, I had the opportunity to stand within 20 feet of Dr. Graham as he gave a masterful sermon about Christ, his ministry and lifas he gave a masterful sermon about Christ, his ministry and life.

We live in Japan as missionaries, so I am always looking for quick easy recipes that don't call for mixes and are relatively easy to make.

I live in Mexico as a missionary and people feed this junk to their babies all the time, and then they are mean to me when they want to give her some and I say no!

She has been present at community functions such as the annual Southern Missionary Baptist church Christmas pageant and the Living Waters, MLK celebration.

We stayed with her family, as she was originally from that part of Ireland but had been living in the US for a couple of years after marrying an American whom she met while working as a missionary in Bangladesh.

This was originally Wilhelm's role when he went over to the country as a missionary, but when he lived amongst the Chinese and observed their ways of life, he realised they shared a spirituality and philosophy that he believed, by the end of his life, was more preferable to the Western way of thinking and living.

Based on Tim Crothers» book about Mutesi titled The Queen of Katwe: A Story of Life, Chess, and One Extraordinary Girl's Dream of Becoming a Grandmaster, the biographical film stars newcomer Madina Nalwanga as Mutesi, Lupita Nyong» o as her mother Harriet, and David Oyelowo as missionary Robert Katende.

A History teacher can draw on stories told by and for Indigenous Australians on topics such as how people lived prior to colonisation, early interactions with explorers and missionaries, stories of massacres, and personal reminiscences of World War II.