Sentences with phrase «spreading scriptural»
But thirty - two years later such distinction had so faded that Bishop McKendree could answer that «God's design in raising up the preachers called Methodists in America was to reform the continent by spreading scriptural holiness over the land.»
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The Wesleyan emphasis on spreading scriptural holiness, for example, calls all Christians to continuous conversion to the true and the good.
But we would aim to make as great a contribution to the salvation of the world in this new century as Wesley made in England in the eighteenth century and Methodism made in the United States in the nineteenth century as it spread scriptural holiness across the land.
From a Wesleyan perspective, this centers on Wesley's idea that the purpose of Methodism was «to reform the nation, particularly the Church; and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the land.»
and recorded as answer, «To reform the continent, and to spread scriptural Holiness over these lands.»
Not exact matches
Although the various scriptural arguments for the resurrection of Jesus are open to question, modern writers insist that some explanation is needed of what empowered the early disciples to spread the message of Jesus across the world.
Considering the levite of our time (pastors) and the fact that the work of God need advancement, we should consider tithing as a tool to spread the gospel instead of deliberating if it is scriptural or not.
He began his 1856 report to the «Select Committee» of the ABCFM with the assertion that «missions are instituted for the spread of a scriptural, self - propagating Christianity.
For the better part of nineteen centuries, the historic churches, wittingly or unwittingly, have contributed greatly to the global spread of anti-Semitism by their excessively allegorical interpretation of most if not all favorable scriptural references to the Jews.
Whatever was meant by the two phrases, it seems clear that some distinction was intended between reforming the nation and spreading «scriptural Holiness.»