Sentences with phrase «more unchurched»
America has more unchurched people than the entire populations of all but 11 of the world's 194 nations.»
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Wilcox reports that Christian conservative fathers, at least the ones who attend church frequently, are actually far more affectionate with and emotionally invested in their wives and children than are their counterparts among either mainline Protestants or the unchurched.
However I find it invaluable as a place to take my pagan unchurched friends and have them taught the word by people more knowledgeable and grace - filled than I. Also as a place to be encouraged to hold the course and not revert to the old me which prefers kicking a ** and taking names over compassion, concern and giving my time / resources to the benefit of other.
Over six years, more than 4,000 unchurched mystery guests visited churches of all sizes across the U.S.. Here's what they thought.
And if the church people complain that you are spending more time with the unchurched, here is the simple solution: invite them along.
Finally, the language of worship needs to incorporate more modern images relevant to a large population of unchurched younger people who do not have world views like our own.
People who are unchurched may be touched deeply by the power of God's promise and even more specifically by Jesus» personality.
Dannin also introduces what he admits is a «taboo» subject: that a portion of «African - American society has always been unchurched,» that African - American lodges have traditionally been centers of unchurched religious practices and beliefs,» and that since the end of the civil rights era unchurched African - Americans «have been moving more rapidly toward Islam.»
Actually I feel happier and that I can be more myself when I am with the «unchurched» (ugh, how I hate that self - righteous word that people use — doesn't it stink!).
There were more wayside inns and taverns than churches in colonial America... Fewer than one in ten Americans were formally affiliated with any religious institution» (The Unchurched: Who They Are and Why They Stay Away Harper & Row, 1980], p. 4).
Robert E. Webber of Wheaton College — a center associated more with mass evangelism and crusades — advocates in Celebrating Our Faith: Evangelism Through Worship an approach to the unchurched which he calls «liturgical evangelism.»
Sophisticated theologians may scoff at the shallowness of the theology proclaimed by Schuller on Sundays when he tries to reach the unchurched, but the fact is that his message is more exciting to many unchurched people than is that of the theologians.