Sentences with phrase «preaching of the gospel»

He defended traditional missionary preaching of the gospel of salvation in Jesus Christ against historical relativists and religious pluralists who viewed it as at best pointless and at worst a cultural imposition.

They point out that we do not possess any concrete evidence for the early preaching of the Gospel in northwest India as we have for south India.

It is also rightly said that the gospel of Jesus Christ is the word of God, as is the faithful preaching of the gospel (Acts 6:7; 8:4).

I noticed you said, «But after this initial preaching of the Gospel and water baptism followed by Spirit baptism, the baptism of the Spirit comes immediately upon a person believing in Jesus for eternal life, whether or not they get water baptized» I must loving tell you this isn't what the bible teaches about baptism.

This view in turn led them to oppose the open, promiscuous preaching of the gospel: it was useless to exhort unconverted sinners to do what they neither could do nor indeed had any obligation to do.

This passage might also be used by the Spirit in our time to extend the privilege of the public preaching of the gospel to women, since Joel says that both sons and daughters, both menservants and maidservants will prophesy.

The Messianic woes: false Messiahs, wars and rumors, persecution, false prophets, treachery, the worldwide preaching of the gospel, the desolating sacrilege, flight from the city.

They did not stop with a simple preaching of the gospel; they also fed, clothed, and trained the men they had rescued.

It does mean that more pastoral care should be carried out by members of a congregation so the pastor can devote more attention to the disciplined study and meditation necessary for lively preaching of the gospel, teaching, and worship leadership.

The extent of that damage is apparent in much preaching of the gospel.

For example, read through the entire book of Acts, the book where we have the original preaching of the gospel immediately after Jesus ascension to heaven — see how many times the love of God is mentioned in the apostles message to the unbelievers.

The task of the church as «body» is to implement this cosmic principle with the concrete preaching of the gospel to the whole world and especially to the Gentiles (Col. 1:27; Eph.

One, largely from the aristocracy, wished the free preaching of the Gospel, gave the Communion to the laity in both the bread and the wine, not simply in the bread as had become the custom, and opposed only those practices of the Catholic Church which seemed to them to be forbidden by the Bible.

Ayokunle urged members of the church and Christians in general to be more committed to evangelism and preaching of the gospel saying, «We wouldn't have had Boko Haram if we had evangelized well.»

But it did, through the «miraculous» preaching of a gospel of compassion, but a gospel without compromise, that engaged the world while challenging it to live its aspiration to freedom more nobly.

St. Ephrem has several hymns in honour of St. Thomas in which he sings of the apostle's preaching of the Gospel in India, of the bringing of his bones to Edessa, of the honour that the Edessene church got thereby, and of the miracles wrought at the shrine.

Jesus Christ is made present through the Holy Spirit to all people who hear him in the faithful preaching of the gospel.

But after this initial preaching of the Gospel and water baptism followed by Spirit baptism, the baptism of the Spirit comes immediately upon a person believing in Jesus for eternal life, whether or not they get water baptized, and most often, this Spirit baptism is no longer accompanied by signs and wonders.

In every form — the gospel, the preaching of the gospel, and the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments — the word of God is in service to Jesus Christ, the Word of God preeminent.

The preaching of the gospel was always connected with helping the poor in the Bible... The two really have to be put together: we preach and we serve; we show the love of God.

They must learn to accept a communication process in which the laity actively feed into the preaching of the gospel the data and insights of their lives so that the contemporary and the traditional heritage will meet.

The preaching of the Gospel is the setting forth of this Christ - event in such a way that for the hearer it becomes a current event.

The preaching of the Gospel summons men to decision.

This is to say that the preaching of the Gospel is not a testimony to any abstract idea that God is Love, but a witness to the concrete and personal fact that God is loved that he receives us.

This witness is the Gospel that is preached in the Church, The preaching of the Gospel, then, as not the relating of a biographical sketch nor a bit of recollected history.

Some may think that all this is irrelevant to the preaching of the gospel.

Luther argued that the task of government was to keep the peace so that God could gather his people through the preaching of the gospel.

Our ministry to our fellow man, should we be building homes, or performing heart surgery must never be divorced from the preaching of the gospel, or all we are doing is making this world a better place to go to hell from.

Our preaching of the gospel must bring to the lonely, the lost, the heavy - laden people joy and peace in believing.

Go back and re-read Theo's post where he said, «Our ministry to our fellow man,... must never be divorced from the preaching of the gospel, or all we are doing is making this world a better place to go to hell from.»

And so it is true that in the last analysis the preaching of the Gospel does not make into a Christian a man absolutely forsaken by God and Christ, but that it transforms an anonymous Christian into a man who realizes his Christianity in the depth of his grace - endowed nature also objectively and in the communal confession of the Church.

They should put into practice a new conception of theological education which would serve first and foremost the preaching of the gospel, and only secondarily the interests of scholarship for its own sake.

So that they can accomplish Matthew 24:14 — the preaching of the Gospel into all the world.

Since, as well as before my change, my theological thinking centers and has centered in its emphasis upon the majesty of God, the eschatological character of the whole Christian message, and the preaching of the gospel in its purity as the sole task of the Christian church.

But all affirm the maxim extra ecclesia nulla salus — at least to the extent that one must have heard the preaching of the gospel or read the Bible, both of which are impossible without the Church.