Sentences with phrase «of missionary»

But in Spain and Portugal such numerically feeble Protestant groups as emerged arose out of missionary effort from other countries.

This is not to suggest that the styles and structures of missionary involvement should be static.

We wish to affirm the validity of the missionary presence as an essential part of the gospel.

We believe the place of persons at the heart of mission to be an abiding reality; We also wish to affirm the validity of the missionary presence as essential to our understanding of the universality of the church.

We can not responsibly solve the accumulated problems of nearly 200 years of missionary relationships by suddenly going into isolation; nor will the New Testament allow us to do so.

It is run by laypeople under the auspices of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart.

The enthusiastic member is also a kind of missionary, spreading the word to others and constantly inviting them to come to prayer meetings.

K.S. Latourette, «Ecumenical Bearings of the Missionary Movement and the International Missionary Council», in Rouse and Neill (eds.)

In the administration of missionary work, the missionary societies or mission boards had authorised the missionaries in each of their respective areas to form themselves as a mission or a mission council.

The missionary historians treated the history of the church in Asia or Africa as part of the history of missionary societies and of western missionary expansion.

It is the responsibility of the missionary, pastor, and anyone who seeks to minister in his / her context to know what questions are really being raised.

Willingen spoke of Joint Action for Mission with the discussions at the Conference focussed on four areas: the theological imperatives of Christian mission, the indigenous church, the place and function of the missionary society, and the pattern of missionary activity.

This struggle for truth takes place in dialogue... For me this means that dialogue is a basic structure of Christian witness, and therefore quite naturally of all missionary witness, while we remain on the earthly pilgrimage.42

At one extreme it results in a dogmatic insistence on the rightness of the missionary's culture and way of thinking, or, at the other extreme, in an affirmation of the validity of all cultures and the right of local people to read the Bible for themselves and formulate their own theologies.

In a halting way but with a sure instinct for its place and its task in a changing world, the missionary movement has charted an increasingly articulate course from Edinburgh (1910) to Madras (1938)... From vigorous Christo - centricity to thoroughgoing Trinitarianism - this is the direction of missionary theology, missionary strategy and missionary obligation.64

The Triune God Himself is declared to be the sole source of every missionary enterprise.

We have talked together about the way many of those who embraced the concept of the missio dei - or at least, embraced the expression - seemed to propel the church out of the missionary conversation entirely.

The criticisms leveled against the Christian missions in China, by both Communists and many Chinese Christians alike, were aimed at their connections with Western civilization and Western imperialism in particular, and at their inability to foster the growth of a really dynamic and expanding Chinese Church.50 Some of the missionary leaders were aware of this new situation.

By 1928 the reality of the «church» in the existence of the younger churches as the fruit of the missionary activity, had forced itself upon the attention of the missionary movement.

It is also sometimes felt to be arrogant to presume that only one faith is true, and this has been a widespread Hindu criticism of missionary work.

It affirmed that the locus of missionary obligation is found in the nature of the Triune God, revealed in the work of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

What happened at Willingen was a recovery of the missionary theology of the early church.

Lastly, in expounding the teaching of Lumen Gentium 16 Rahner systematically excluded any reference to the concluding three sentences, which speak of the work of the Evil One and the necessity of missionary activity.

There was a sense of optimism about the missionary enterprise which prevented any questioning of the motivation of mission or of the missionary message.

By the Madras conference, the Church had become the central concern of the missionary movement.

Unlike that of Madras and Jerusalem, the Conference in Whitby showed a spirit of optimism in the outcome of missionary enterprise that was similar to that of Edinburgh 1910, and of the early student Volunteer Movement.

Hahn says, «A fundamental element of missionary thought and action is the universalist understanding of God.»

Katie Stock meets Pete Portal, a new breed of missionary, serving God with gangsters in Cape Town More

He said, «If on the side of the missionary faiths, the pull against remaining at home ceases and if on the side of the family, a wider toleration of worship is granted, the tragedy of separation need not take place.

To begin there means readiness to accept a call or appointment to a particular post solely on the basis of the missionary task it represents under the prompting of the Spirit.

A gospel - centered curriculum should be driven by the character of our missionary God seen most clearly in the person of Jesus Christ.

He suggests that, one reason for this shift was the inability of the missionary movement to come to an agreement on a theological response to religions.21 This remains true even to this day in the ecumenical movement.

Saint founded the Indigenous People's Technology and Education Center to build on the vision of his missionary - pilot father, Nate.

I had to shuffle my categories many times during my last eight years of missionary work.

All these factors contributed to a loss of missionary dynamism in the church from the end of the 15th century to the middle of the 19th century.

Out of the missionary movement there was born the Ecumenical Movement.

To no small degree this had been because the physical dangers and hardships incident to the career of a missionary ruled them out.

During this time Christianity expanded on a far greater scale than during any preceding period and Protestantism played a greater role in this expansion than did the other branches of the Christian movement.31 From within Protestantism came a surge of missionary endeavor unparalleled in strength and magnitude of goal in previous Protestant history, and perhaps unparalleled in the history of Christianity.

But the more important reason for the diminishing of missionary dynamism was the coming of the Muslims into political power.

The wife of a missionary working in Africa says she believes God will help her husband recover after he contracted the deadly Ebola virus.

when the Indian Christians invited Pantaneus to preach to the Hindu philosophers and religious leaders, they were aware of their missionary responsibility to Indian culture as a whole.

Amid the divisions and differences — with Barnabas, Mark, Peter, the Jerusalem pillars, the Corinthians, the Galatians and their teachers — which attended the career of Paul, it is refreshing to find one church that never misunderstood him, but supported him loyally with men and money when he was at the height of his missionary preaching and when he was shut up in prison; one church that really appreciated Paul, and did itself the lasting honor of giving him its help.

One pastor replied, «We still have a need for the kind of missionary who is knowledgeable about the historical, cultural, political and theological perspectives of Argentina in general and of Argentine Methodists in particular.»

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(The statement of L. W. Brown that Archbishop Menzes tried to encourage a spirit of missionary responsibility among the Syrians to which they did not respond, is rather misleading.

Another pastor added that part of a missionary's orientation should consist of «many hours reading Argentine political history and some of our basic ecclesiastical documents such as «The Missionary Strategy of the Argentine Evangelical Methodist Church.»»

Dana Robert, «From Missions to Mission to Beyond Missions: The Historiography of American Protestant Foreign Missions Since World War II,» International Bulletin of Missionary Research (October 1994): 150.

The development of missionary sympathy towards the plight of the slave castes in Travancore culminated in the submission of a memorandum by Anglican missionaries dated 20 March 1847.

The new and awful discoveries made of the polluting and murderous nature of their superstitions, in writings of unquestioning authority, with the success of the missionary labours of the excellent men of other denominations already employed there, the committee think ought to be considered as special calls upon British Christians to increase the means of acquainting their natives of India with their divine religion; and to persevere in the glorious toil, until the name of Christ shall be sounded throughout the vast extent of our oriental dominion, and one God and Saviour shall be worshipped by every subject of the British throne.4

In 1934, the AMM celebrated its centenary by creating the Madura Mission Sangam to which the AMM with the approval and urging of the ABCFM handed over its authority.30 The Madura Mission Sangam consisted of missionary, church and institutional delegates: twenty - four Indians, eighteen Americans, twenty - five men and seventeen women.31 It was organized in committees to carry out the work of all departments formerly in the AMM.