Sentences with phrase «potential for both evangelism»

All the hoopla about online chat aside, there might be some opportunities for enlivening discourse among seminary students and faculty, within congregations, across denominations and perhaps even between different Christian groups around the world, Here's a cosmic thesis: the most interactive technologies, and the most dialogic uses of technologies, offer the greatest potential for both evangelism and community.

Not exact matches

«Concerns for neighborhood safety and desire to express compassion to the under - resourced seem to be the biggest potential draws for the unchurched to get connected to a church,» noted Rick Richardson, professor of evangelism and leadership at Wheaton College and research fellow for the Billy Graham Center for Eevangelism and leadership at Wheaton College and research fellow for the Billy Graham Center for EvangelismEvangelism.

However, direct mail, using computer technology, has great potential for allowing local churches to reach parishioners who have special interests in missions, or religious education, or evangelism, or a Bible - study course.

Now that people in the mainline denominations are starting to talk unembarrassedly about church growth and evangelism of a fairly conventional sort, Wheeler worries that the potential exists for any emphasis on congregational studies to be misinterpreted as an outgrowth of the spirit of the times — which views local communities of believers uncritically, as in - arguably good things, and assumes that if there is anything the matter with them it is that they aren't big enough.

If we insist in our evangelism that the hearers subscribe to all our orthodox doctrines and in the full understanding that we subjectively assert must be understood for salvation, we can invalidate for the potential convert the simple act of faith which does bring eternal life.