Sentences with phrase «missionary calling»

The Willingen Conference accepted a Trinitarian statement on missionary calling of the Church.

Instead, the Conference accepted two statements, one on the Missionary Calling of the Church, and a second on Mission and Unity.

Maturing piety eventually leads each of us to a «concern» for some aspect of justice in the world that becomes a lifelong missionary calling giving special point and focus to love for the world.

If despite our sorry history of bigotry and intolerance we are to hold to a worldwide missionary calling of the church, we need to be clear always about the context of that call.

There is a growing awareness among the churches today of the inextricable relationship between Christian unity and missionary calling, between ecumenism and evangelization.

We owe it to the Younger Churches, which join the Council, to provide for them an ecumenical milieu in which the missionary calling pervades the whole atmosphere.

The Willingen Conference in its report on «The Missionary Calling of the Church» called the churches to be in solidarity with the world.

The Willingen Conference, which adopted a statement on the missionary calling of the church, also adopted a statement on the calling of the church to mission and unity.

They need to heed and respond to each other and discover one another as partners in a common missionary calling.

Mission was the fruit of the total being of the church and not a specialty for those who received a particular missionary calling.

Christian instruction involved a considerable amount of teaching in what the missionaries called «the fundamental doctrines of the Gospel.»

this isn't to deny some have a missionary call, but my people are already in the world.

Not exact matches

Without calling themselves missionaries.

He had to call up all of the missionaries they supported and tell them that the church wouldn't be able to send them money this year.

From an Evangelical Catholic perspective, every Catholic is a missionary, an evangelist, a disciple, commissioned by the Lord to take the gospel to every nation, calling all to be baptized in the name of the Most Holy Trinity.

What I will not tolerate are those who assume their own infallibility and presume to know the truth for others: we call them missionaries.

If you want to know what Mormons believe, call the church, they'll have the missionaries contact you or visit their web site, Mormon.Org.

You know, as a Missionary Baptist (and not of Eddie Long's so called churches) I couldn't agree with you more.

Many feel a special calling to bring the Word back to the Middle East; others become unintentional missionaries as their work carries them to the West and beyond.

Update (Feb. 27): A South Korean Baptist missionary and North Korean prisoner, Kim Jong - uk, appeared in a Pyongyang news conference Thursday, calling himself a «criminal» and apologizing for the «anti-state crime» he committed against the country.

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.»

Yes, there are white missionaries handing out bulletins at Washington's Third Ward - what Mormons call their congregations - but there's also Ruth Williams, an elderly African - American woman, decked out in her Sunday best, doing the same.

The Protestant Episcopal Church of America then raised a general call to all Churches «which accept Jesus Christ as God and Saviour to join in conference following the general method of the World's Missionary Conference, for the consideration of all questions pertaining to the Faith and Order of the Church of Christ.»

First, all Christians, whatever their state of life in the Church or the world, are called to be missionary disciples.

The call to missionary discipleship was issued, Francis believed, to the whole Church, not just to clergy.

Dying alone, «He thought of the missionaries» god, that god of healing and forgiving, and with failing breath he called upon his name.»

Bishop Eduardo Horacio Garcia, who was Cardinal Bergoglio's auxiliary bishop in Buenos Aires, recounted shortly after Pope Francis's election that «at the end of the Jubilee Year, for which Cardinal Bergoglio had called a missionary year, we priests of the archdiocese asked Cardinal Bergoglio to call a synod in order to discuss how to harvest the fruits of our mission and draft guidelines.

The evangelist later attributed the decision to severe restrictions on missionary activity newly enacted as part of Russia's anti-terrorism efforts, though the event was called off a few months before the «Yarovaya laws» were proposed.

Answering that call, Christians offer succor to the suffering: Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity care for the dying; the Salvation Army provides for the destitute; World Vision brings relief to those affected by natural catastrophes.

They were the way in which the risen Lord called men to his service; hence to be a witness of the Resurrection was to be a missionary.

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.

Subsequently, enterprises ranging from overt Jewish missionary efforts to orthodox Messianic congregations have been called «Jews for Jesus.»

Do you think alter calls and missionaries are obsolete?

At the same time, it must be said that this ecumenical (to all the inhabited world) sense of the missionary aim was given new impetus by what John R. Mott (Edinburgh, 1910) defined as «the decisive hour of Christian Mission» which called for» the evangelisation of the world in this generation».

Even today, for many churches, it is customary to call «missionaries» only those who go overseas.

Thus, the document «Mission and Evangelism - An Ecumenical Affirmation» (WCC, 1982) contains a section called «Mission in and to Six Continents» in which it is recognised that «everywhere the churches are in missionary situations».

That was followed by their global hit «Viva La Vida» which is full of Christian symbolism as it references the bells of Jerusalem, missionaries in a foreign field, but also the cryptic line «I know St Peter won't call my name» which has always struck me as challenging.

What is commonly called the «modern missionary movement» among the Protestants is the product of pietistic and evangelical movements of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Thus, what Geevarghese Mar Osthatios calls «rescue the perishing» [5] motive served as the spiritual springboard as well as the main goal of the modern missionary movement.

The Lausanne conference had two main roots — one in the World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh in the spring of 1910, which revealed how widely on the foreign missionary fields the spirit of federation and unity was operating, and the other in the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the fall of 1910, which called for a commission on a world conference on Faith and Order, having to do with the whole church, at home aMissionary Conference in Edinburgh in the spring of 1910, which revealed how widely on the foreign missionary fields the spirit of federation and unity was operating, and the other in the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the fall of 1910, which called for a commission on a world conference on Faith and Order, having to do with the whole church, at home amissionary fields the spirit of federation and unity was operating, and the other in the General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the fall of 1910, which called for a commission on a world conference on Faith and Order, having to do with the whole church, at home and abroad.

A monument to the importance of that achievement for the history of the Slavs is the very alphabet in which most Slavs write, which is called Cyrillic, in honor of Saint Cyril, the ninth - century «apostle to the Slavs,» who, with his brother Methodius, is traditionally given credit for having invented it... Not only among the Slavs in the ninth century, but also among the other so - called heathen in the 19th century, the two fundamental elements of missionary culture for more than a millennium have therefore been the translation of the Bible, especially of the New Testament, and education in the missionary schools.

Even in these modern days I have had long and agonizing interviews and counseling sessions with overseas missionaries who were trying to decide whether, if they exercised ministry back home, they would be recreant to their «higher calling.»

If they were preaching to another community, we'd call them missionaries or emissaries from God.

The best among those Jews who decide to take that step are likely to end up as lonely and misunderstood missionaries, calling an unrepentant church to renewal through a recovery of its roots in the Hebrew Scriptures.

Recently the faculty of Fuller Theological Seminary's school of world mission called on «Christians in all traditions to reinstate the work of Jewish evangelism in their missionary obedience.»

But these gifts are used today when missionaries are sent to unreached people groups, or when certain people call the church to repent and return to a proper way of living with God.

Some missionaries saw that as idolatry; others thought it wise to do what the rulers asked and call it a patriotic gesture.

The inscription contains a long list of Persian missionaries and also a summary of the teachings of the church called Ta - Chin (Syrian).

In addition to the classic missionary and indigenous Pentecostalisms, he identifies some heretical Pentecostal movements and the so - called Pentecostalisms of divine healing and prosperity.

When as a child I visited Korea in 1935, I heard the missionaries of the Presbyterian Church debating the so - called Shrine Controversy.