Sentences with phrase «to proclaim the gospel»

Faced with dwindling numbers and an ageing infrastructure, especially in the traditionally strong Catholic bastions of the nation's largest cities, painful decisions must be made about how best to continue the mission of proclaiming the Gospel in a dramatically different cultural setting.

He was a preacher who proclaimed the Gospel of Jesus Christ with what the New Testament calls parrhesia, unusual boldness, fearlessness.

The Christian leader who belittles someone or puffs up himself or herself at another's expense can not proclaim the gospel adequately because that leader no longer lives it.

In proclaiming the gospel as evangelists we have been concerned to make a point of contact with the people, but because the faith as thus presented has been set in too narrow a context and has not been addressed to the mind as well as the heart, it has often failed to lead to a permanent and constructive reorientation of life.

The Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals made its public debut in the 1996 Cambridge Declaration, which suggested that evangelicals had capitulated to the spirit of the age, and proposed a recovery of the confessional traditions of the Reformation to proclaim the gospel faithfully.

The BGEA exists to support and extend the evangelistic calling and ministries of Billy Graham and Franklin Graham by proclaiming the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ to all we can by every effective means available.

... the Church in the United States is called, in season and out of season, to proclaim a Gospel which not only proposes unchanging moral truths but proposes them precisely as the key to human happiness and social prospering (cf. Gaudium et Spes, 10).

Open your eyes and see what the Spirit is birthing in these days, watch women rising up to reclaim their communities for peace and wholeness, watch women laying on hands and proclaiming the Gospel with their lives and their voices and their writing and their songs and even, yes, in their quiet.

God's vision for the church has always comprised a global body of believers proclaiming the gospel on every continent and in every corner of the world.

challenged the youth of America to proclaim the Gospel without shame or fear from the rooftops of America.

Firstly, they were to lead an exemplary Christian life, so as to proclaim the Gospel effectively, but without words.

Very clearly, these twelve were chosen to a specific task and purpose, which included proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ to the world.

An apostle who proclaimed the gospel among Jews might have believed that Jewish Christianity, though ultimately only a part of Catholic Christianity, deserved more adequate representation than it found in Mark.

We, the people of St. Paul the Apostle Parish, form an international Christian community that challenges each of us to proclaim Gospel message of Jesus Christ.

Obviously missionaries wanted to proclaim the gospel because they believed it to be superior to any message others might offer.

These narratives aim quite directly at proclaiming the Gospel.

He spent nearly the first half of his message trying to convince us of this, and then proclaimed the Gospel (by telling some great stories about his life and ministry with teens) without being offensive at all.

Most mainline preachers I know are quite bold about calling out structural sin or proclaiming gospel truths like Christ's love for the oppressed, the poor, the victims, and the marginalized.

That night though... gathered around the table with the two people who first introduced me to Jesus and then seeing my own children proclaim the Gospel to us all, declaring that Jesus was hope and joy and peace and love, I felt like laying down on the floor and crying because Jesus is as good as we ever hoped and it's all true and everything was rescued on that night in Bethlehem and it will all be restored fully someday soon.

Just think, instead of a crusade with all the machinery that goes with it as a one time event... replaced with dozens of churches daily proclaiming the gospel, building relationships, and discipling whole families.

So fromJerusalemall the way around toIllyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ (Rom 15:18 - 19).

Rather it will be because he was a man of God who proclaimed the gospel courageously, even at the cost of his life.

Somewhat accidentally we have discovered that people watch, listen to, remember and want to discuss «sermons» of love, «sermons» that indeed proclaim the Gospel.

Can you think of ways to proclaim the Gospel using something other than just words?

With the exclusive claims of Christianity surrendered, can we still proclaim the gospel?

What does it mean to affirm indigenous religion while proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ?

Paul in his eagerness to proclaim the gospel traveled, often in great hardship, across much of the Mediterranean world.

He protested about the fashion in which those who proclaim the gospel often spend most of their time in stimulating an artificial sense of utter failure and sinfulness, so that then those preachers could declare that after all God still cares for such miserable wretches as he has induced his hearers to think themselves to be.

When we freely proclaim the gospel as Jesus offered it to His hearers, the compelling nature of the free gift of God to all who simply and only believe in Jesus for it is recognizable to all as something that no religion on earth has offered, and hence, is no religion at all but is a message that can have its origin only in God.

While he hung there, he constantly proclaimed the Gospel to those who passed by, pleading with them to believe in Jesus for eternal life.

To be sure, it is Christ who has worked through him; but it is he who has proclaimed the gospel from Jerusalem as far as Illyricum (Rom.

For example, we see both Philip and Stephen proclaiming the gospel and teaching the church, but we don't know what they did at other times.

William Nye, Secretary General to the General Synod, said: «At the heart of the mission of the Church of England is a commitment to proclaiming the gospel afresh in each generation.

Gospelism is living and proclaiming the gospel through words and actions.

Certainly it is right and essential that a sermon proclaiming the gospel of Christ be one part of the total action.

The second, verses 11 - 17, begins as if it were a continuation of that conversation, but then almost immediately proceeds as a monologue through which the Christian community proclaims its gospel to its hearers.

It is not that one form proclaims the gospel every week and invites people to «come forward» while another form of preaching does not.

It will be most true to its Lord by proclaiming the gospel confidently, but in a way that respects the human right to be religiously different.

The missionary movement proclaimed the gospel to people of other religions and cultures.

He is, as Gänswein says, a «solitary, frank, intrepid» voice proclaiming the Gospel in its fullness and resisting the zeitgeist.

When Peter proclaimed the gospel to the Roman centurion Cornelius, he effectively changed the policy of the early church, removing all distinctions among persons.