A constructive image of evangelizing requires a review of contemporary methods like revivalism and mission, and leads to the concept of the Christian, whether minister or layman, encountering others, whether as individuals or in a group, in a discussion of their expressed needs, and depends
more on attitudes than techniques.
The degree to which people suffer and whether they find life empty or meaningful depend
more on their attitude than on their physical condition.
Mortal Kombat was not very good, relying
more on attitude and, for the time, shocking content to sell.
Not exact matches
Watch this short video to hear
more from Lubetzky
on his
attitude toward leadership, which includes giving everyone unlimited access to KIND bars every day.
There are obvious exceptions to this, of course — the solution to a truly toxic workplace is to run for the door not chastise yourself for your
attitude, and moving
on to a
more stimulating gig can be a great idea.
The reasons are four-fold: structural changes in the American economy have triggered a long term downward trend in entrepreneurial activity; changes in the banking system have made small business credit
more difficult to get; a post-recession shift in
attitudes has made Americans less interested in striking out
on their own; and a shift in government policies has made entrepreneurship
more challenging to undertake.
The European
attitude is in line with the broader social trend of consumers focusing
more on services rather than assets.
While the very earliest stages might just call for an
attitude adjustment, a bit later
on physical interventions, such as
more social interaction, might be
more helpful.
My problem early
on as a corporate leader had
more to do with not having an
attitude that everyone fails once in awhile.
This
attitude of stepping into your customers» shoes is fueled by gratitude and a mindset that motivates you to put
more emphasis
on retention, engagement and lifetime value.
If you're not crazy about sending emails, you might approach it with an
attitude that's
more focused
on getting it out of the way than doing it really well — and that's a problem.
Even in conservative parts of the country, where public
attitude about gay rights differs from
more liberal areas of the country, employer actions that allow discrimination
on the basis of sexual orientation can lead to a lawsuit that the employer could lose.
Tvert says it's «not really a matter of Republicans versus Democrats» because there are members of either party who are «
more progressive»
on the legalization debate than others, «but public
attitudes are clearly shifting... and it's only a matter of time before that is reflected in laws nationwide.»
Cuddy found that consciously adjusting your body language to make it
more positive improves your
attitude because it has a powerful impact
on your hormones.
But our
attitudes toward them are
more properly guided by research
on whether (and how) they get the job done, than it is by emotion.
People catch
on to your
attitude quickly and are
more attracted to the right
attitude than what, or how many, people you know.
People catch
on to your
attitude quickly and are
more attracted to the right
attitude than who you know.
«We seem to be at a tipping point with [privacy] issues, with the great acceptance that the price of digital communications is some intrusion
on privacy being replaced by a
more cynical, or at least aware,
attitude toward what is actually happening.
Twenty years ago, men and women had similar
attitudes towards children - young women,
on average, wanted slightly
more children than young men, but the differences were nothing to speak of.
Anyway, my
attitude on a stock market correction is that if the market never comes back, it means something worse is at work and I will have
more serious problems to worry about such as war, famine, disease.
American views
on China are dimming, even while Chinese
attitudes toward the United States have become
more positive in recent...
The perceived role of China as a global leader
on security issues has a minor effect
on Canadians»
attitudes towards a Canada - China FTA.Canadians who show stronger confidence in China becoming a global leader
on security issues are also
more likely to support an FTA with China, although this has a minor effect.
«The chanciness is part of the lasting magic of gay life,» writes Browning, «a sort of radical plot twist that characterizes queer life and sets aside so many conventions of social judgment, class, race, and
attitude, supplanting them with a direct and naive faith that bonds of great value can be forged
on nothing
more than instinct....
Speaking after the documentary Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, the peer and former chairman of the Conservative Party, said British Muslims had made
more progress in changing their
attitudes on various social issues since they arrived in Britain in the 1950s than the Church of England and the Conservative Party had over the same period.
It seems to me that those who express a negative
attitude towards attending a «church» base it
on emotions and feelings
more than scripture.
Ollie Baines reflects
on England's unusually youthful side and wonders whether Christians have the right
attitude toward age
More
The study, published in the January edition of the British Journal of Psychiatry, says spiritual but not religious people, as opposed to people who are religious, agnostic or atheist, were
more likely to develop a «mental disorder,» «be dependent
on drugs» and «have abnormal eating
attitudes,» like bulimia and anorexia.
In the meantime, I would urge
on him a
more charitable, or at least less insulting,
attitude toward those of us who find ourselves resigned to exercising our evangelical catholicity within the Lutheran communion.
I can assure you that the latter is based
more on popular misrepresentations of the emerging church movement than
on the actual thoughts and
attitudes of most of those who consider themselves a part of it, including myself.
On the other hand, as a skeptic and a progressive, I identified with Father Flynn's stirring sermon about religious doubt and his desire to see a
more progressive
attitude adopted in the school.
But
more important are the changing patterns and
attitudes of campus life, the enormously increased and still increasing numbers of young people who are
on campuses, and the various kinds of movements that combine to make young people think of religion and the church as false, traditional, or irrelevant.
Protestants and Catholics tend to look at authority from rather different perspectives, and
on the whole I think it fair to say that the version of the common tradition to which Catholics are heir tends to give them a
more positive
attitude toward the function of authority in the church than that found among Protestants.
More than other types of association, a religious group presents itself as a microcosm with its own law, outlook
on life,
attitude and atmosphere.
The
more they focused
on outward actions, the less attention they gave to inner
attitudes.
If we don't want to slouch toward conflating suicide with «dignity» and enacting medically discriminatory policies based
on denigrating
attitudes toward the dependent, we need to build a
more supportive and inclusive culture.
I should like to ask you to allow me to adopt a
more subjective
attitude, to make marginal comments as it were
on the Council's teaching and decisions.
Skinner said that if a church assumes a «poor me»
attitude and is only
on the receiving end, it will not start giving even when it is
more able to do so.
The scientist's
attitudes may also have a
more direct impact
on his religious faith.
I can't think of a
more foolish
attitude I harbor at times than when I look back
on previous generations and assume they were ignorant, unenlightened, unaware and totally outside of what I'm thinking and experiencing today.
The most obvious «
more» to which the church is called is to act
on the beliefs and
attitudes that it inculcates.
Probably the main influence of the church, one that can be malign or benign, is
on the
attitudes of people, especially its
more active members.
For Midgley it is better, indeed imperative, to concentrate
on bailing out our planet; what we need from scientists is help in formulating a
more realistic
attitude toward the physical world in which we live.
Referring to Christ should make possible a
more critical
attitude to the context than comes from the emphasis
on Christ's mediatorship as elaborated by Panikkar.49
He homes in
on More's
attitude to heresy, which from a modern stance seems the height of intolerance.
Partly in response to this
more Christian
attitude on the part of Christians, and partly
on their own initiative, Jews have begun to take another look at Jesus.
Unlike the Decalogue, which addresses sinful external behavior, the Sermon
on the Mount seems
more concerned with character formation and internal
attitudes.
Traditional
attitudes toward the natural environment make Indians, like the Japanese,
more disposed than Americans to pursue happiness modestly.15 And almost six decades after his assassination, Gandhi's traditionalist emphasis
on austerity and self - abnegation remains a powerful part of Indian identity.
It has depersonalized social controls based
on family and community ties and has contributed to the continuing negative
attitudes that society holds toward homosexuality — the rationalistic and efficiency - oriented character of modern bureaucracies is thought by most of society to be inconsistent with
more diffuse forms of sexual expression that homosexuality suggests to many people.
Suddenly P.O.D. was
on the cover of HM magazine and was featured in the
more cautious CCM, where the trio copped a bit of an
attitude: «Oh yeah!
On all issues,
attitudes became
more accurate with self - affirmation, and remained just as inaccurate without.