Sentences with phrase «missionary efforts»

Each faith requires missionary efforts to convert followers of other faiths.

It is a novel based on historical events, telling the very disturbing story of missionary efforts in Japan and the grim life, torture and the inevitable apostatizing that occurred during that time.

One of the most jarring aspects of the genocide in Rwanda is the fact that due to the ostensible success of Christian missionary efforts in that country during the 20th century, it had become one of the most thoroughly Christianized countries in Africa.

From its very beginning, the East Syrian church expressed its faith through missionary efforts.

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

Many of the Pauline churches were to become the centres of further missionary effort and expansion (cf. the foundation of the Church at Colossae, Chap.

At one stage in early Christian debates about the legitimacy of Christian missionary efforts among gentiles, an earlier tradition, which held that the Christian message was meant only for Jews, and which was attributed to Jesus himself as its founder and representative, was opposed to a later view, defending the offer of the Christian message to gentiles, which was voiced by a character who was both gentile and female (Matthew 15:21 - 28 par.

Especially troubling to Jews is that Christian missionary efforts like Avodat Yisrael seem duplicitous.

Students of the era helped organize the Student Volunteer Movement, under the initial sponsorship of Dwight L. Moody, and spearheaded the massive American foreign missionary efforts that reached their peak around World War I. Administrations also often encouraged Protestant denominational campus groups as well as their Catholic and Jewish counterparts.

Whilst missionary efforts met with considerable success in the Americas, Australasia and Sub-Saharan Africa, Christianity, despite considerable support in the Philippines and South Korea, remains very much a minority religion in most Asian and North African countries, where the great faiths of Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam have been long established.

As the Church advanced through the centuries and missionary efforts grew, there came a need to rectify this fragmentation.

The first and most noticeable of the new - wave movements derives from the explosion of evangelistic, fundamentalist and pentecostal activity in the West, giving rise to new missionary efforts in India.

All efforts to win back from the Muslims, either by crusades or by missionary efforts, have been unsuccessful.

If we take our baptism seriously, we have become sisters and brothers of all those all over the world who have been baptized, largely due to our past missionary efforts.

It is altogether a sorry tale, riddled with the «complicities» of the Christian missionary effort that is guilty of «forcing conversion to European forms of Christianity,» of «the desecration of religious sites, and other crimes against the spirituality of indigenous peoples.»

Jesuits are known for their work in education (founding schools, colleges, universities and seminaries), intellectual research, and cultural pursuits, and for their missionary efforts.

Similarly, Christians have realized that our missionary efforts have been closely bound up with Western imperialism.

In the pioneer stages, it was usually the more sincere and singlehearted who bore the brunt of missionary effort.

But he responded that a synod was good only for producing useless documents, while the only thing we need to do is to continue our missionary efforts and to remain in a state of permanent mission.»

They complain of SBC resolutions and programs that designate Jews as objects of missionary efforts.

At the same time, through the missionary effort, Christianity moved to or beyond the periphery, and established a new center.

From about a.d. 1500, the missionary efforts of Jesuits and others were quite successful, but for reasons of international and domestic politics, the Tokugawa dynasty (c. 1600 - 1868) opted to methodically wipe out Christianity.

In what ways are the missionary efforts of the early church and those of the modern church different?

Please pray for us as we make preparations, look for sources of income (which will include a job), and ultimately settle on a specific location within the United States to continue our missionary efforts.

Their missionary efforts in neighboring regions were not without success, though Galilee remained the center of this northern propaganda - only so can we explain the flight of the Jerusalem Christians thither shortly before the siege of the city in the year 68.

A second wave of missionary efforts is now under way, bringing dissension and competition from several quarters.

Mr. Gamble anticipates that this missionary effort in Belize will have a lasting effect on the community in Belize, as well as on the lives of his missionaries.

And when I was a pre-teen, my parents oversee the missionary efforts of our church in Honduras.