Sentences with phrase «making evangelism»

Billy Graham was making evangelism and evangelicalism visible.

While Students for Life advances Gospel values in their admirable pro-life work, their strategy prevents them from making evangelism an explicit core commitment.

That, Castellan says, makes the evangelism of its hiring materials feel so powerful.

could make evangelism the central concern that it ought to be in any church, but far more than an appeal to sign a card, come forward in a meeting, or become in an external sense a church member.

Immigration puts a face on those we are called to reach, which makes evangelism more complicated.

Not exact matches

As Robert points out, the deeper level of ongoing engagement that characterizes the subscriber experience makes this audience more likely to exhibit desirable behaviors — like a greater willingness to share personal data, a greater interest in upselling opportunities, or greater brand loyalty and evangelism — than non-subscribers.

The point is not to make a fight... the point is to make sure we understand that our content marketing strategies are important for custom retention, upsell and brand evangelism as well as top of the funnel activities.

Sorry, but making this sort of evangelism is not witnessing / testifying your faith, it IS, however, making a big show of your religion in public.

I think not, Perhaps if one made the unbiblical assumption that evangelism is primary and social action is secondary, one could argue that one should resist the governing authorities in order to preach the gospel but not to work for social justice.

I still have an exciting announcement which I want to make (well, it's exciting to me...), but it will have to wait until after I am done with this current series on the gospel and evangelism.

I don't say that in a critical manner, but to suggest that you keep an open mind and have some experiences of your own with ministries that are making a difference through Crusade Evangelism.

As McKnight notes in the book, «Most of evangelism today is obsessed with getting someone to make a decision; the apostles, however, were obsessed with making disciples.»

I don't believe in the friendship evangelism project especially using youth because they are making themselves set up to committing un-Christian like conduct.

I find it interesting that Billy has made two comments about gays in the last 6/7 months, yet never did in all his years of evangelism.

The church made the divine right of political and church leaders part of its curriculum of evangelism.

The friendship and cooperation between the Arminian John Wesley and the Calvinist George Whitefield during the First Great Awakening had shown that the two groups could work together in evangelism and make common cause for the evangelical movement.

Evangelism offices and commissions gather and affirm the various groups that identify themselves under their broad banner; they sponsor workshops on church growth, offering helpful techniques for how to make church life more inclusive, how to bring back those who drift away, how to incorporate new members more quickly, how to set up and carry out community - building activities such as lay visitation.

Seldom making a serious impact on the life and policy of the church body, it consumes its energy in planning conferences on evangelism or on prayer and encourages the new packaging of old revival techniques in such activities as the charismatic movement or the Faith Alive movement.

Some years ago I would probably have welcomed the suggestion made recently by a joint committee of the Christian Reformed Church and my own denomination, the Reformed Church in America, that these two denominations enter upon a united program of «Jewish evangelism.»

And, he adds, «at the center of their new life is a call to evangelism, to make this life available to all.»

To understand the Bible as a human product rather than as a divine product makes all the difference in how Christians understand worship, their relationship to God, their concept of mission and evangelism, and their attitude to people of other faiths.

So, I'm going to continue teaching Biblical evangelism to every believer that I can, and explain the Gospel in a way that makes sense to every unbeliever that I can, all to the glory of God.

The value of this formulation is that it makes room for the two major foci for ministry within Protestantism: evangelism and social action or to use the language of the recent report of the Association of Theological Schools, «spiritual emphasis» and «social action emphasis.

Well, regardless of my strong personal opinions about the Warner's christian evangelism, this is still a good story, IMHO, and it sounds like they have, and are continuing to make efforts to do some good in the world.

But to make individual evangelism the priority for one's social ethics is naive according to Smedes.29 (Changed people don't always change laws.)

David Hubbard, for example, in his taped remarks on the future of evangelicalism to a colloquium at Conservative Baptist Theological Seminary in Denver in 1977 noted the following areas of tension among evangelicals: women's ordination, the charismatic movement, ecumenical relations, social ethics, strategies of evangelism, Biblical criticism, Biblical infallibility, contextual theology in non-Western cultures, and the churchly applications of the behavioral sciences.2 If such a list is more exhaustive than those topics which this book has pursued, it nevertheless makes it clear that the foci of the preceding chapters have at least been representative.

This incredible «evangelism» made «converts» by the millions at the point of a sword.

While not downplaying the significance of evangelism, Smedes opposes the assumption which we have seen represented in Moody Monthly and Christianity Today that somehow «good men [i. e., Christians] will make good societies.»

There is a recognition that a conscientious evangelism program depends on making what have been rather inchoate dreams more explicit and more a matter of conscious planning in which many people participate.

In a previous post, I made some suggestions about how to do evangelism more effectively.

Evangelism is an inevitable overflow in revival because revival makes eternal issues a reality.

They'll tell a couple stories from personal experience, try to make people laugh, use oratorial stylings, and ultimately the «application» is: «fellowship, evangelism, prayer, tithing, involvement in church ministry / work.»

Booth's organization focused on evangelism, announcing, «The Christian Mission has met in Congress to make War.

When I'm confronted with people who don't know what CCM is, I describe it like this: Music made for Christians (cultural expression), by Christians (quality control / consumer confidence) with an added purpose of making more / stronger Christians (evangelism / discipleship).

Many made over-the-air appeals to help them continue to expand their radio evangelism.5.

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.

The vivid memories of Jesus and the fact of his continuing Lordship in the community would make such a development all but inevitable, and the exigencies of evangelism and apologetic only accelerated it.

Many forms of «evangelism» suffer from the same mistake these two guys made.

The great commission, our Lord's last command and the basis of all evangelism, tells the apostles to go forth to every nation and make disciples of them, and baptize them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

The purpose of evangelism in New Testament congregations was not to make everyone the same; it was to offer everyone new life in Christ.

Second, since evangelism has to do with people's eternal destiny, then, if a choice has to be made between addressing «physical» and «spiritual» need, we have to say that the supreme and ultimate need of all humankind is the saving grace of Jesus Christ.

Making friends, serving others, loving others long - term is the beginning stages of evangelism.

And, before you make assumptions, be sure to take a look at what Evangelism Explosion has done recently.

If you don't understand that hell was made for Satan then perhaps you also don't believe that we as Christ followers have an enemy and his role here on earth... most unbelievers are living a hell down here so when I preach or do one on one evangelism, I most certainly inform them of hell... I could quote verses here but really you just need to have solid theology....

Context matters for evangelism, and they worry that a figure who has made such controversial remarks won't be a good fit to share the Good News with the more progressive people of Vancouver.

The fact is once a legitimate use of stating the consequence for disbelief is made then it is legitimate to use in evangelism - maybe not first but definitely a part of the message.

It sometimes seems we Christians know we are doing a poor job with evangelism, so we make sure we do a poor job so that we get ridiculed so that we can then claim «persecution.»

In a culture infatuated with glamor, lights, shows, and crowds, crusade evangelism makes more headlines than it does disciples.

I will make the case later that evangelism is more than proclamation of the gospel.

Evangelism, in the sense of reaching out to find and convert people not already reached, is ineffective, although in some of the ministries much is made of the importance of reaching people outside the United States.