Sentences with phrase «much missionary work»

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.

Such service of others was also a hallmark of much missionary work in Africa and Asia.

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When I go to Church, I don't go to some building that someone built, listen to someone speak at me about the evils of the world, give up money for some out of sight missionary work, and then get berated for not doing things according to some interpreted version of a much disputed holy book.

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

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

We wonder why there is so much unease in the hearts of members of Christian orders and of priests, why so few deep conversions are effected in China despite the flood of missionaries, why the Christian Church, with all its superiority of benevolence and devotion, yet makes so little appeal to the working masses.

I would say these days, in general, missionaries, at least the ones we work with, really try to incorporate ethnomusicology and traditional practices as much as possible from the beginning.

A particular area of Christian growth was Uganda, which became a British protectorate in 1894, where Anglicans sent by the Church Missionary Society and the Roman Catholic Mill Hill Fathers both did much work.

Absolutely... Isn't there an old saying where «they don't care what you know until they know how much you care...» When I've done missionary work, it always starts out by first providing some need, whether it is giving out food, or rebuilding houses, and, just like Christ, we first fill their bellies (feeding the 5,000) then we give them a messege where God can fill their souls.

Because so much of the Methodist work was in reality home missions, their missionary society founded in 1819 made little effort to distinguish between home and foreign missions.

In areas where actual fighting has occurred, notably in China, much of the regular work of the missionaries and of the churches has been suspended.

Livingstone was criticized severely for apparently doing more exploring than missionary work, yet probably no missionary had ever preached to so many blacks and did so much to open Africa for the world to see.

Inspired by the works of recently canonized missionary Mother Teresa, who spent much of her life ministering in Kolkata.

In this work Kader Attia investigates the Vatican's holdings of art from Africa, much of which was plundered by Christian missionaries in the context of their evangelization efforts on...

JC: I was very much involved in missionary work, and I taught physics and chemistry for two years in Africa.