Sentences with phrase «more evangelistic»

What denominational leaders want most from their presses — greater revenues and materials specific to the denomination's «own» programs — strongly suggests that they view Protestant renewal chiefly as an organizational matter: build a stronger organization, one with increased financial resources and more evangelistic «team spirit,» and decline will be arrested.

Sunday School songs are more evangelistic: they often stress personal piety.

If you need proof that atheism is becoming ever more evangelistic, look no further than Peter Boghossian's book A Manual for Creating Atheists.

Not exact matches

In recent years, a number of Christian leaders have rightly called lethargic and half - hearted Christians to quicken their pace, to dedicate more of their time, talents, money and efforts to serving the Lord in the local church and in evangelistic outreach at home and abroad.

Islam is reportedly even more aggressively evangelistic than Christianity and recruits Christians even as Christians try to recruit Muslims.

My preparedness for this encounter had little to do with being some sort of evangelistic expert and more to do with my experience of God's love.

Christianity Explored Ministries (CEM), the evangelistic course pioneered by Rico Tice, has announced a partnership with Prison Fellowship International... More

Sadly, the term evangelistic is used more often in other ways, but in that usage it meant bringing truly good news of God's salvific work in the world against the background of realistic assessment of what our current activities were doing to the Earth.

The vision for JustOne, was always ambitious: Gather 40,000 people for the first evangelistic stadium event in over 30 years.After years of planning... More

As Billy Graham hands over the leadership of the Billy Graham Evangelistic... More

Evangelistic theatrics are certainly more flamboyant, but when I look into their eyes, I just see dumb.

Instead, they determined that they had made a theological error, having bought into the Primitive Baptist Movement, and that all they needed to do was to return to a more evangelical and evangelistic way of being Baptist, which they did by affiliating with the Southern Baptist Convention.

And such relationships are generally cheaper, statistically more effective, and certainly more fun than the typical «evangelistic» event put on by most churches.

In return, the evangelical community, whose focus of commitment is less scattered and whose financial contributions are more generous than members of mainline churches, 7 has faithfully supported such perceived evangelistic efforts with its time (viewing) and money.

But Jackie Pullinger - To shuns evangelistic... More

Over 23,000 people attended the JustOne evangelistic event at the Emirates Stadium in London last month, with 1,743 recorded as making a response to the... More

Megachurches have not historically been the beneficiaries of large evangelistic crusades (which have been fairly non-existent in America over the past 20 years or more, actually).

I wonder if there might be a more effective way of spending hundreds of millions of dollars for evangelistic purposes than Evangelistevangelistic purposes than EvangelisticEvangelistic Crusades?

Christianity Explored Ministries (CEM), the evangelistic course pioneered by Rico Tice, has announced... More

Their evangelistic, and discipleship / catechism methods offer people ways into the church that are more graduated.

12 - 14); and these words, more bitter than anything else in Isaiah if intended (as may well be the case) as irony and not (as most translations) as a compassionate «evangelistic» invitation:

Are the days of public evangelistic rallies behind us, or should we get over our British reserve and... More

Several characteristics of its Protestant community help to account for this: the doctrinal emphasis (more favorable to the use of impersonal means of communication than sacramental traditions); the evangelistic imperative; and the impulse towards alternative socialization, creating a range of cultural activities parallel to those of the larger society.