Sentences with phrase «nominal christian»

Regretably today there are a lot of nominal Christian and a lot of sects, cults and false churches.

In fact, one often learns the most from these «anonymous Christians» (as Karl Rahner would call them), for if they are consummate artists as well as deeply parabolic they can show, in a way that a nominal Christian artist who is mediocre can not, how hidden and yet how powerful the parabolic way is.

The «nominal Christian» is not an invention of modern times.

Some Christian leaders have even rejoiced in the dissolution of a Christendom that allowed, or perhaps encouraged, an excessive degree of nominal Christian allegiance: the impact of modem secular society has challenged people to make a conscious choice about whether they are either for or against Christianity.

In this case, many are failing to see that the percentage of people who are convictional Christians has remained relatively steady (particuarly, in this study, evangelicals), while those with nominal Christian conviction are shedding the label.

Of course, applied to a nominal Christian, it would be offensive, but (1) that might not be a bad thing in that context, and (2) I'm not sure the term matters in that situation — «outsider» isn't likely to win you any points either — it's going to be down to relational skills in communicating the idea lovingly.

The mainline church concerns itself not only with the non-Christian and the merely nominal Christian in the homeland, but also with the non-Christian world abroad.

He is at best a nominal Christian who would more accurately be described as embracing a secular Marxist worldview.

It is a pity that many Westerners are only nominal Christians, and don't really know the Redeemer Jesus.

There are mountains of evidence for the systematic slaughter of Jews and others during WWII, by nominal Christians, by the way.

When we select nominal Christians as board members because of their clout over faithful disciples of Jesus we boldly declare our love of money and power.

Of course, today many people, which have received infant baptism, only live as nominal Christians.

If we were to group all people in the entire world in the four soils mentioned in Luke 8:11 - 15, most non-Christians would fall under soil number one, most new Christians and nominal Christians would fall under soils two and three, and most mature Christians would fall under soil number four.

Perhaps the nominal Christians who have de-converted reflect that now, thanks to militant atheism, it's actually possible to have an identity as an atheist as this wasn't always the case.

If that is the case, and that is what the data is showing, than the decline is primarily (not exclusively) that nominal Christians are becoming honest reporters.

The percentage of convictional Christians remains rather steady, but because the nominal Christians now are unaffiliated the overall percentage of self - identified Christians is decline.

I have seen the faith of nominal Christians come alive when they have engaged with the men and women in our shelters at Breakthrough.

Nominal Christians make up a higher percentage of Mainline Protestants and Catholics than any other denomination of Christian, and this is why their numbers continue to sharply decline.

Some are born in homes where the parents are nominal Christians not «born - again» Christians.

Churches regularly celebrate conversions from nominal Christians that wouldn't count as switches in the broader global data.

It issued in missions, among both nominal Christians and non-Christians.

The Inner Mission endeavored to bring nominal Christians to a full commitment and gave rise to prayer houses and folk schools for the quickening and nourishing of the faith.

Thanks in part to Vilhelm Beck (1829 - 1901), an able preacher and organizer, the country was divided into districts, and colporteurs and home missionaries systematically distributed Bibles and other literature and by personal contacts endeavored to win the nominal Christians to an earnest Christian commitment.

You must distinguish between true Christians and nominal Christians.

If the problem truly exists... as the author would have you believe, the problem is with «nominal Christians» who don't really know God, nor attempt to truly follow Jesus Christ.

This might well alarm even nominal Christians — that large group who regard themselves as Christian though no longer active in the church.

The author is deeply concerned with «false prophets» (4:1) or «antichrists» (2:18), who have led nominal Christians out of the Church (2:19).

Full statistics are lacking, but it may be that, taken the world over, the losses in nominal Christians in the years since A.D. 1914 have been larger than the additions.

Not exact matches

We who are Christians... are just «norma» l... by contrast to nominal.

Every year we force nominal believers to sing «Christian children all must be, mild, obedient, good as he», thus reminding them why they only come to church once a year.

«Nominals» were raised to appreciate (though not know) the Bible, a certain moral code and general Christian - ish principles.

For many nominal Catholics may not live a Christian life at all and may be quite uninterested in the Church, but might nevertheless claim their right to vote for electoral bodies precisely in order to work against the interests of the Church.

The lost, in any event, consisted of everyone else, including — especially including — nominal mainline Christians who claimed to believe the Bible but tried to allegorize - away its angular details.

Up to to the age of 21 I knew nothing about Jesus Christ, the Bible, the Cross, the general Church, etc. in the midst of «Christian» Germany (meanwhile it became clear for me that German Christianity is only nominal to a large extent).

This public face of religion, to which social anthropologists who study religion give particular attention, is important, although committed believers may wish to distinguish themselves, perhaps as «born - again» Christians from so - called «nominal» Christians.

Reasons given by Unitarian Universalists there for leaving other churches were along the line of «couldn't believe dogma, but wanted community» (ex-Methodist), «could not accept Jesus myth» (nominal Episcopalian), «my wife and I could not reconcile the Christian theology with a rational approach to life» (nominal Presbyterian).

It is to be hoped, however, that such claims could be advanced without falling back into crass and unnuanced distinctions between «nominal» and «true» Christians.

From his Oxford «Holy Club» days to the end of his life, he sought to be a True Christian — unlike the many nominal «almost Christians» he saw in the Established church around him.

As the distinctions between Christians and an ever - growing post-Christian culture emerge, we will have to set aside any nominal belief systems and become active agents of God's Kingdom.

But the Democrats have taken immoral stances against Biblical teachings and are becoming the party of atheists and purely nominal, non-practicing Christians.

In a world where so many Christians are nominal in their commitment to Jesus Christ, how necessary it is to call them again to the fervor of their first love!

Often persons who are not Christians, or who are Christians in only a nominal sense, will be happy to avail themselves of the opportunity to learn something about Christianity through attendance at such schools.

Jefferson was, arguably, a nominal «Christian», but only by equivocating on the word «Christian» are contemporary conservatives able to lay claim to the post-enlightenment champion of humanism named Thomas Jefferson.

When they became better established they tended to pass into the control of those whose Christian faith was at best nominal and who might even disavow Christianity.

They provided a channel for following what many regarded as the full Christian way of life rather than the nominal Christianity professed by the majority of the population.

TRUE Christians or only «nominal» ones.

That ebb was not completed until, in 1492, the Kingdom of Granada, the last political stronghold of Islam in the Iberian Peninsula, fell to Christian arms and in 1609 the Moriscos, the nominal converts from Islam, were expelled from Spain.

Millions of people today, including many nominal members of Christian churches, are inclined to answer in the negative.

You need look no farther than coerced conversion to see the source of the lack of sincere belief in the Gospel message among nominal «Christians».

De Blasio also reversed Bloomberg - era policy that banned churches from using public schools for regular Sunday worship at nominal cost — something mostly taken advantage of by the right - wing Christian fundamentalist «church planting» movement.