Sentences with phrase «missionary work today»

That is at the root of much of the political resistance to missionary work today.

It is this opinion that is at the root of much of the political resistance to missionary work today.

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Today, fundamentalists and evangelicals (including Pentecostals) constitute approximately 90 percent of all Protestant missionaries working in foreign lands.

At its heart is a theological core shaped by the trinitarian and christological consensus of the early church, the formal and material principles of the Reformation, the missionary movement that grew out of the Great Awakening, and the new stirrings of the Spirit that indicate «surprising works of God» are still happening in the world today.

Missionary work continues today just like it did when the Brits had it.

Today he's in the business of training missionaries for overseas work, and he's very familiar with the argument that missionaries should be upfront about their intentions when they go overseas.

Hey, Jeremy I'm a missionary in Brazil, and today I was looking for statements those who use James 2.14 to say that a person without works either was never saved, or will lose their salvation.

Christians today are the heirs of a long history of those who left their home countries and churches, apostles, monastics, pilgrims, missionaries, emigrants, to work in the name of Jesus Christ, serving and preaching where the Gospel had not yet been heard or received.

Of special importance today is the expression of solidarity among the churches crossing political frontiers and the symbolic actions of obedience of one part of the body of Christ that enhance the missionary work of other sectors of the Church.

Indeed, today much missionary work carried on by Americans or Western Europeans in the non-Western world, emphasizing individual salvation rather than a transformed way of life, may be only the proclamation of a foreign divinity.

It is fashionable today in some circles to disparage missionary work, but care is needed in judging a previous generation by contemporary standards.

Today, the Third World is not only sending missionaries to the Third World; it is also thinking in terms of mission to America and mission to Europe — thrusts that mission boards and the World Council of Churches are working hard to effectuate.

But one might ask whether that swelling in the temporal sulcus results not from the motivation to do missionary work in Gabon, but rather from a pulsing desire to procure the proverbial 15 minutes of fame that is so endemic to the ethos of today's wired youth culture.