Sentences with phrase «unchurched people»

But, unfortunately, that is not the image that millions of unchurched people ever see.

Though research shows us that church planting is by far the most effective means to reach unchurched people in the community, we don't plant churches.

AuthorImprints Services: eBook development, distribution About the book: Drawing from literature, music, pop culture, and personal experience, Feldmeir, a GenXer himself, speaks to the largely unchurched people who live their lives in the shadows of the Baby Boomers.

That happens when pastors start to turn parish ministry outward to the world where unchurched people are.

But when I proposed that there may be many unchurched people out there who are unwilling or afraid to enter a church building because of unfamiliar practices and forms of worship, the students sat up and took notice.

Of course, don't unchurched people sing at concerts?

«If the only benefit of being a Christian is that you get to go to heaven, most unchurched people don't care,» McConnell said.

People, even unchurched people, seem to want to invest a particular meaning in the role of pastor, and almost instinctively wish to be respectful of the pastoral role.

So we decided to try to attract unchurched people.

«Invite unchurched people to those kinds of events, and many say they will attend.»

CT has previously discussed how it's possible to be both spiritual and religious, the importance of loving the church, and what unchurched people think of Christians.

America has more unchurched people than the entire populations of all but 11 of the world's 194 nations.»

According to a recent survey, the average unchurched person wants to learn more about Jesus and is even open to talking about Him with Christian friends.

I honestly believe most planters would freak out if they started having to deal with the issues that come from reaching truly unchurched people.

They want to plant churches for unchurched people, and especially for those who will not ever go to a traditional church.

In looking about to find ways of meeting the challenges of deism, the vast masses of unchurched peoples, the great space to be covered, the disintegrating morals, and the threat of financial collapse after the Revolution, the Churches found their answer in revivalism.

He went to a nearby lake to preach to crowds of one to two hundred unchurched people who stopped at an outdoor chapel before getting into their boats.

Sophisticated theologians may scoff at the shallowness of the theology proclaimed by Schuller on Sundays when he tries to reach the unchurched, but the fact is that his message is more exciting to many unchurched people than is that of the theologians.

Church planters reach unchurched people.

The Church faced not only this threat but also the greater threat of indifference and vast numbers of unchurched peoples.

In the book, I kind of do twist on this, because our churches are designed for unchurched people.

Almost every question I raised he used as an opportunity to talk about reaching the unchurched: «Our goal is to reach just one - one hundredth of the unchurched people in Chicago.

«Don't wait for unchurched people to bring up the topic of faith,» he said.

The attitude in that title is completely appropriate for unchurched people.

She really has a heart for unchurched people.

When Gumbel joined the church's staff in 1986, he noticed that unchurched people were attending Marnham's class.

Unchurched people are mostly unevangelized people.

The «195 million unchurched people» statistic is all over the place — from books to blogs to church bulletins.

And perhaps my favorite: «With its 195 million unchurched people, America has become the new mission field.

On October 3, 1949, thirty - eight denominations set out to win as many as possible of the 70 million unchurched people of this country to a living evangelical faith.

Reaching unchurched people should be the goal.

When we turn from the viewpoints of churched and unchurched people to the institutional church's attention to corporate and individual expressions of religion, we discover its tendency to emphasize the former and ignore the latter.

The evidence indicates that even where an unchurched person may have a significant experience of religious faith while viewing television, rarely is that experience extended into an ongoing relationship with a supportive and stimulating Christian interactive community within which other dimensions of the faith experience may be explored and appropriated.

In a heavily marketed world, it takes something for unchurched people to notice a church, much less be curious enough to visit.

In looking about to find ways of meeting the challenges — of deism, of the vast masses of unchurched peoples, of the great space to be covered, of the disintegrating morals, and the threat of financial collapse after the Revolution — the Churches found their answer in revivalism.

We had a person on our staff a couple of years ago who came here because he wanted to be part of a church that reached unchurched people.