Sentences with phrase «to communicate the gospel»

Is that sense of communicating the gospel too broad?

Rather, he or she must be allowed to see that the threat is actually an occasion for communicating the gospel in our era.

How can we find more relevant ways to communicate the Gospel today?

This could be a bit of a side track, but there is another element that comes with communicating the gospel.

Here he was recalling his own insecurity and inability to communicate the gospel effectively.

All that we who communicate this Gospel can do is make possible a genuine decision.

Several years ago, I discovered Mark Batterson when I was studying churches that were using creative methods for communicating the Gospel in today's culture.

Being nice, kind, helpful, respectful and generally a good person isn't the same thing as communicating the Gospel of Christ.

Evangelical critics have similar reservations, said Bonk, as well as a concern about «whether a film, any film, can have the capacity to communicate the gospel without reference to local contexts.»

And that's the beginning of a team, of the possibility of a concerted, prayerful effort to develop relationships which are a platform for communicating the Gospel clearly.

Chris experiments with communicating the gospel through art.

This is one of the worst examples of the way some clergymen, who supposedly care about communicating the gospel to the present generation, fail to do so because they insist on using an obsolete and confusing vocabulary.

The first of these is that the basic source of weakness in the Church is its failure to communicate its gospel intelligibly and vitally.

(8) Members are asked how they believe God is at work in life, and the responses enable the pastor to communicate the gospel more specifically to the congregation (Wardlaw).

My point is that Paul, for example, spoke everything he felt necessary to try communicate the Gospel.

A former church planter and lead pastor, Bryan currently works as a freelance writer helping ministries communicate the Gospel..

As one of our premier Christian anthropologists, Hiebert has long been concerned with contextualization — with equipping missionaries to adjust to religious, social, cultural and historical contexts when communicating the gospel.

He found a man still preaching, prophesying, and pioneering creative ways to communicate gospel truth.

«Ed is one of America's leading advocates for communicating the gospel in faithful, effective ways that lead people to Jesus Christ,» said Wheaton College President Dr. Philip Ryken.

They matter to the Christian in their quest for more knowledge of God and provide the apparatus for communicating the gospel to others.

God was helpful to me in finding a way to communicate the gospel without compromising it, but connect it to aspirations and fears and baseline personal and cultural narratives.

That's exactly the opposite of the pattern you'll find in the scriptures, and at the best points of the tradition... I don't think that every Christian knows how to communicate the gospel clearly, but I know every Christian can, because I was taught to.»

Preaching remains perhaps the most dramatic, most effective, and most used means of communicating the gospel in Protestantism and will always be central in a tradition that stresses the primacy of the Word of God.

But do they represent innovative new ways of reaching people, or a disastrous abandonment of the only way to communicate the gospel?

In the broadest sense we communicate the gospel.

Meanwhile, congregations and denominational leaders increasingly understand a «practical» theology to be one that communicates the gospel in ways that build loyalty and commitment among a people whose attention is captured by the demands and attractions of a secular society.

As they seek to communicate the Gospel to their Muslim neighbours and friends, they will have a common linguistic and cultural background in which, and from which, to engage but they will also wish to transmit the uniqueness of God's self revelation in the living, dying, rising again and teaching of Jesus the Messiah.

He found in Heidegger's analysis of human existence in terms of authentic being, a way of communicating the gospel.

The Lord has historically used imperfect men to communicate His gospel to us.

Artists are hard to control, and yet, they are effective in communicating the Gospel to a society that is resistant to it.

How can we find more relevant ways to communicate the Gospel?

In some circles, witness and proclamation are still seen as the two main modes of communicating the Gospel in which the former tends towards activism and the latter verbal communication.

Steve Legg, a comedian and escapologist who also takes his magic show onto the stage says that he «loves working on the streets»: «It's such an amazing way of reaching potentially thousands of people... People often think Christians are very serious, so making people laugh is a great way of communicating the gospel.

Finding that many Muslims were illiterate in their own language, missionaries forged ahead with non-literate means of communicating the gospel.

There is a need in theological education therefore to address also the practical and theological questions of media utilization, questions such as: What is the appropriate relationship between inter-personal, group and mass media in communicating the gospel?

What emerged was a host of cooperative, pan-denominational, evangelical groups that aggressively sought to improve the lives of impoverished Koreans as they communicated the gospel message.