Sentences with phrase «most evangelical churches»

In fact, most evangelical churches rejected Pentecostalism until the mid-1980s, when the Third Wave began to have its impact.

The gospel is referred in most messages in most evangelical churches, but it is not central.

Not exact matches

-- Robertson is sinking the Conservative Evangelicals (though he is a «charismatic» version), and the church movement most closely associated with Robertson will undergo massive change or die.

In one of Ross's most effective chapters, she argues that low - church evangelical liturgy has taken many of its cues from the Gospel of John, while more high - church traditions have tended to look toward the synoptics.

But for all its diversity, the Assembly was far from «representative» of the church; most of the world's Christians who are found in Catholic, Pentecostal, and evangelical fellowships would find little of the familiar in Canberra.

The scholar I have found most associated with the claim in more recent Evangelical literature is Anthony Hoekema, an irenic Reformed scholar to be sure, but one who nevertheless has said that «it has been the almost unanimous conviction of the mainline Protestant churches that these miraculous gifts ceased at the close of the Apostolic Age.»

Most Evangelicals are splinter groups from the Catholic Church.

But I know a few evangelical and Pentecostal pastors who'd worry that one in four people in church on most Sundays wasn't on board with the resurrection, a biblical reality reflected in the teachings of our Lord, of St. Paul, and the early Cchurch on most Sundays wasn't on board with the resurrection, a biblical reality reflected in the teachings of our Lord, of St. Paul, and the early ChurchChurch.

As Todd Brenneman argues in his recent book, Homespun Gospel: The Triumph of Sentimentality in Contemporary American Evangelicalism, sentimentality may be a defining characteristic of religious life for many Americans, and so most readers in the dominant Evangelical culture, outside a few hip and urban churches, are more likely to encounter the treacly poetry of Ruth Bell Graham than the spiritually searing work of R. S. Thomas or T. S. Eliot.

A candidate isn't going to get anywhere with most conservative evangelicals if they support a woman's right to chose, or if the candidate supports strict separation of church and state, and maybe even opposition to teaching Creationism is going to lose their vote.

Ask most who are leaving evangelical churches and hypocrisy and hate will be the biggest reasons.

The Lutheran groups most likely to identify as evangelical are small and functionally free - church (the Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ).

-- like the Republican evangelicals who all think their church is the most Christian, the most right, the only ones going to heaven yet ignore the real teachings of Jesus by judging others, ignoring charity and the needs of their community, not understanding when the Lord's Prayer begins with «Our» Father — the «Our» is not just white people.

The first line says it all: «Most American evangelicals hold views condemned as heretical by some of the most important councils of the early church.&raMost American evangelicals hold views condemned as heretical by some of the most important councils of the early church.&ramost important councils of the early church.»

Even though I still love my evangelical family, specifically the Vineyard church, for the most part I am safer not being a part of it.

Richard Steel, an evangelical church pastor in Stratford - upon - Avon, believes the shroud stands above Protestant concerns about the veneration of relics in the Catholic tradition, saying: «If it is the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, it's one of the most important relics that the Christian Church has.&church pastor in Stratford - upon - Avon, believes the shroud stands above Protestant concerns about the veneration of relics in the Catholic tradition, saying: «If it is the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, it's one of the most important relics that the Christian Church has.&Church has.»

Most white evangelicals (63 %) and black Protestants (67 %) said churches should express views on social and political matters, but fewer (37 % white evangelicals, 45 % black Protestants) thought churches should endorse candidates.

In 20 years will people say «that book really changed things in evangelical culture and Adam has become a significant voice in the church» or will they say, in a sexy deep voice: «Adam McHugh: he is the most introverted man in the world.

After serving on the pastoral staff of one of the most progressive evangelical churches in the country, Brian and his wife Carrie took a big step of faith and returned to Dayton to launch The Mission — a new community of Christ - followers committed to loving God and loving people.

Despite having one foot in Generation X, I tend to identify most strongly with the attitudes and the ethos of the millennial generation, and because of this, I'm often asked to speak to my fellow evangelical leaders about why millennials are leaving the church.

But what's most dangerous about this posture is that Piper seems to assume that because evangelicals aren't confronting sexual assault and abuse the way that Hollywood is, then those things must not be happening in their churches, that abuse only occurs in egalitarian communities where women have more power and influence.

-- Most (if not all) «happy - clappy», evangelical churches act in extroversion... but they will be quick to close borders and associate themselves only with «certain» other people.

Unfortunately, due to the rise of the more evangelical - style, «southern U.S.» baptist imports, along with other varieties of Baptist churches that are very much untraditional, the traditional Baptist style appears to be dying away and only a few traditional churches remain, most of which probably existing in metropolitan cities.

While the event featured high - profile speakers like David Platt and Francis Chan, the most talked about session following the 2015 conference was Michelle Higgins» talk about the evangelical church and the Black Lives Matter movement.

In addition to shaping Christian thought through his voluminous publications («Fundamentalism» and the Word of God, Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God, and A Quest for Godliness, to name only three of the most popular), he helped steer the flagship Evangelical magazine Christianity Today, spoke at countless Evangelical conferences and local churches, mentored hundreds of future pastors through his seminary teaching, and lent his name to the back covers of more Evangelical books than probably any other Christian endorser ever.

«You show me leadership that's culturally across the board in most UK evangelical churches.

A midwest book salesman, who probably reads as many religious books as most theologians, makes a comment on evangelical churches that applies to many evangelical best sellers: «They show a steady growth, but I fear it is immature.

Yes, Barack Obama is the wrong type of Christian for white evangelicals in America, they are willing to fall head over heels in love with Mitt Romney the Mormon, of which most of these churches have preached against this religious group from the inception that it's a CULT and you need to stay away from that type of doctrine.

Darren - You do not know the presidents inner most thoughts, nor the thoughts of every member of the evangelical church.

In fact one of the most serious studies undertaken by all schools of theology in the churches whether evangelical or catholic is the relation between the one gospel and many cultures.

It is also what drives the evangelicals out, because of the intellectual sterility such a view takes on in most main line churches.

Yet most of those same evangelicals denounce Westboro Baptist Church.

(In current usage in Latin America, the terms evangelical and Protestant are practically synonymous, although evangelical is most commonly used to refer to all non-Catholic Christians while Protestant is usually used to refer to the historic Reformed churches.)

Brian McLaren's two most important books — A New Kind of Christian and the recent A Generous Orthodoxy — both open by raising the specter of an evangelical pastor leaving the ministry or the church altogether.

For the most part, evangelicals joined the Episcopal Church out of an appreciation for its liturgy and tradition, not for its generally liberal approach to sexual ethics and scripture.

If «church theology» means the theology expressed in the preaching and worship of most Christian congregations in this country today, then a Gestalt of church theology would be appropriate for conservative evangelicals, but not for us.

Evangelicals, all claiming a common Biblical norm, are reaching contradictory theological formulations on many of the major issues they address — the nature of Biblical inspiration, the place of women in the church and family, the church's role in social ethics, and most recently the Christian's response to homosexuality.

For most evangelicals, the Catholic Church has been understood as the enemy of the Gospel and even as the Antichrist.

CT's past coverage of Germany includes interviews with a cabinet member in chancellor Angela Merkel's government about evangelical political engagement, a German church planter who studied under Tim Keller, and a Berlin - based journalist who says that Martin Luther would have driven most of Germany's bishops from their pulpits.

And while some evangelicals retain a belief that scripture prohibits women from either teaching or leading church congregations, most no longer object.

Most Evangelicals also held back from ecumenical efforts represented by the World Council of Churches.

However, most National Association of Evangelical board members say pastors can be restored to church roles after marital infidelity.

A new survey reports that «most American evangelicals hold views condemned as heretical by... the councils of the early church.»

Metropolitan Jonah, by most accounts the highest - ranking, evangelical - friendly archpriest in North America's Eastern Orthodox Church, resigned under duress in July.

Women's roles in the church most likely would have progressed much more quickly (and certainly would not have left us where things currently are in say the Catholic church or a fundamentalist or evangelical church); we don't even need to get into talking about the Inquisitions.

While the political activities of the SACC - related churches get most of the media attention — as a result of highly visible, well - traveled clergy — South Africa's independent churches, evangelical and indigenous, are quietly but profoundly altering that country's religious and social landscape.

For the remainder, such as most of the new independent evangelical churches, their distaste for liberation theology and their understanding of the church's proper role in the public arena derive not from «an ideology of the national security state» but from sincerely held beliefs about theology, politics, and economics.

In contrast to South Africa's vocal patrons of liberation theology (who are largely confined to the intellectual class), most evangelical independent and African indigenous churches eschew radical politics and the transformation of the Christian message into a political agenda.

The 2005 National Study of Youth and Religion published by UNC - Chapel Hill found that Church of Jesus Christ (LDS) youth (ages 13 to 17) were more likely to exhibit these Christian characteristics than Evangelicals (the next most observant group):

«Most evangelicals — leaders from all seven denominations — have expressed concerns,» Sergey Rakhuba, president of Mission Eurasia and a former Moscow church - planter, told CT. «They're calling on the global Christian community to pray that Putin can intervene and God can miraculously work in this process.»