Sentences with phrase «of evangelical»

Another travel companion, Vijayesh Lal, the gregarious new director of the Evangelical Fellowship of India, wrote to me in a recent email that increasingly «Christians are treated as outsiders and targeted because they are perceived to be outsiders, i.e., people not proclaiming India as punyabhumi [holy land], although many consider India their pitribhumi [fatherland].»

I was at a private meeting in Colorado Springs with a bunch of evangelical leaders.

We bank to the left and pass over the offices of The Independent, an alternative free weekly newspaper that has been critical of the evangelical community.

(Religion News Service reports the «targeted churches were mainly of the evangelical denominations built on the left bank of Niamey.»)

Immutability, impassibility, and doctrines such as the eternal generation of the Son have been abandoned or reduced in importance by large sections of the evangelical world.

The majority of evangelical Protestant do not want a mormon cult follower as president.

But, most important of all, its whole culture — its use of evangelical celebrities and its media savvy — has made it that much more influential at congregational level even as it is accountable to no - one but a self - selected few.

This is seen in the growing strength of Evangelical churches and of the house church movement.

Vitaly Vlasenko, director of external relations for the Russian Union of Evangelical Christians - Baptists, instead blamed controversy and concern surrounding Russian Orthodoxy, including the patriarch's decision to meet with Pope Francis.

Bill Taylor, Executive Director of the Evangelical Free Church of Canada, shares his thoughts on Christians and culture.

In conclusion, I emphasize that the differences between Wesley and this affirmation of evangelical essentials differentiates him from the mainstream of current evangelical teaching far more than from today's Wesleyan evangelicals.

Billy Graham's son and protége is among a handful of evangelical leaders who, like Trump, have praised Putin.

Those consecrated few who embrace vows of evangelical poverty still solicit the assets of others.

Second, Roe also had the effect, surely unforeseen by the Supreme Court, of bringing millions of evangelical Christians into the fight on behalf of unborn life.

Worthen rightly associates presuppositionalism as a stated method within the Reformed - Baptist arc of the evangelical world.

What I find sad about her story is that even though she feels a part of the evangelical family, she also feels like she doesn't belong.

Neo-fundamentalists believe they alone are remaining true to the fullness of the gospel and orthodox faith while the rest of the evangelical church is in grave, near - apocalyptic danger of theological drift, moral laxity, and compromise with a postmodern culture — a culture which they see as being characterized by a skepticism towards Enlightenment conceptions of «absolute truth,» a pluralistic blending of diverse beliefs, values, and cultures, and a suspicion of hierarchies and traditional sources of authority.

On this basis, he fought tooth and nail against the moderates in the Southern Baptist Convention or any other part of the evangelical world who rejected the idea that the Bible was the Word of God in favor of the idea that the Bible became the Word of God in encounter or contained the Word of God in some way.

David, perhaps if you «had a charismatic personality, was a motivational speaker, kept the ship running tightly, was orthodox, held to traditional morality and adhered to the middle road of evangelical conservativism» you'd have a vibrant and growing congregation.

The recent Christ at the Checkpoint Conference has a number of evangelical groups concerned about waning support for the nation of Israel among Evangelicals (see here and here).

At its best, Evangelicalism seeks to preserve and foster folk culture and the critics of Evangelical piety need to recognize this....

During the nineteenth century there were many organizations that attempted to bridge the differences between the Churches of evangelical persuasion.

Third, in the public sphere, the most visible aspects of the evangelical witness today are typically moralistic, and the moralism is often related to sexuality.

In my judgment, shared by many, he was the most important leader of the evangelical revival of the eighteenth century.

A great deal of the strength of the evangelical Christian's life was derived from a meditative reading of Scripture in this way.

This interpretation of the Evangelical position....

Silleck apparently believes» though his letter seems not entirely clear on the point» that Lutherans of an evangelical catholic persuasion have no such necessary decision to make.

The factions of evangelical Christianity, fathered from the independent spirit that Luther used to define a personal religion (in contrast to the corporate european church), are not the singlemost downfall of our relgious society.

And as his biographer, I'm quite convinced that that is the kind of evangelical reform Pope St. John Paul II sought to bring about by giving that council its authoritative interpretation.

Today's evangelicals rightly identify the loss of conviction about Biblical authority as a major source of the decline of evangelical fervor in the United Methodist Church.

Thanks to the folks at Ethika Politika, these exchanges keep swirling around Weigel's vision of an Evangelical Catholicism and the ecumenism it promotes as part of the path forward.

I know that a lot of my evangelical friends have definitely had an influence on me.

Add to that, a prudish sub-culture of Evangelical Christianity wholly obsessed with sex, sexuality, and purity codes (perhaps a stubborn remnant of our Puritan heritage).

Nearly half of evangelical voters go for one guy — the most rabid conservative in the bunch — despite the fact that he is highly unelectable by every reasonable measure.

No doubt there is some justification for their belief that the lessening of knowledge and conviction about these doctrines has left a void that leads to lack of evangelical fervor in the church as a whole.

Jerry Falwell Jr. surely didn't expect the fallout he received when he introduced Donald Trump to a gathering of evangelical leaders in New York City in late June.

In 1846 the Evangelical Alliance, a world - wide movement of evangelical churchmen, was founded.

Something I know would make some of my evangelical friends toes curl!

When Methodism became a separate denomination, this history of evangelical worship carried over into its services.

In early 2004 I was gathering information on an abuse case involving a pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) for a report in Forum Letter, an independent Lutheran publication I then edited.

I got the address of an evangelical church in Paris.

Fueled by a professoriate that embraces the same leftist agenda as that of their colleagues in the secular academy, these Christian professors are making great strides in reorienting the political leanings of the coming generation of evangelical leaders.

There is something rather obvious — even a truism here — that stands in stark contrast to much of the history of evangelical scholarship.

The vast majority of evangelical pastors think persecution is coming their way.

Best Point: Peter Enns with «The Deeper Scandal of the Evangelical Mind: We Are Not Allowed to Use It»

Many of us knew that the Scriptures had a lot to say about the Creation, but we began to realize that some of the key things were central texts of evangelical Christianity.»

Last week, Denhollander referred to the SGM saga as «one of the worst, if not the worst, instances of evangelical cover - up of sexual abuse» and «one of the most well - documented cases of institutional cover - up I have ever seen.»

• We were talking outside the exhibition hall at this year's meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, held in Baltimore the week before Thanksgiving.

Even though they are still banned from consuming beer while students, many recent graduates of evangelical colleges are starting to make an impact in the craft beer industry.

The resurrection of the evangelical left is real, and its influence is growing.