Sentences with phrase «which evangelical christians»

That makes evangelical Iowans unusually influential even by the standards of the national Republican Party, in which evangelical Christians have constituted the base since Ronald Reagan was elected president.

He considered sexual orientation conversion therapy, which some evangelical Christians embrace but which the American Psychological Association has said is ineffective and could be damaging.

Not exact matches

His trip to Israel — which included meetings with top Middle Eastern political leaders and a tour of Christian holy sites with 40 evangelical activists — has fueled growing speculation that the younger Paul is seriously considering a presidential bid of his own in 2016.

Complicating matters further is Osteen's association with the prosperity gospel movement, and the related «Word of Faith» movement popular in some evangelical circles, which teaches that believing Christians can harness the power of prayerful speech: to reap material and financial rewards in this life as well as the next.

To a conservative evangelical, it could mean a glorious return to the Christian values upon which America was founded.

Mainline Protestants (Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, and the like) and evangelical / fundamentalist Protestants (an umbrella group of conservative churches including the Pentecostal, Baptist, Anabaptist, and Reformed traditions) not only belong to distinctly different kinds of churches, but they generally hold distinctly different views on such matters as theological orthodoxy and the inerrancy of the Bible, upon which conservative Christians are predictably conservative.

The news media has made much of the meeting, which includes such well - known evangelicals as Focus on the Family founder James Dobson, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference president Rev. Samuel Rodriguez and former presidential candidate Gary Bauer.

Brannon Howse, a conservative writer and founder of Worldview Weekend, which organizes Christian conferences, criticized evangelical participation in that event in a column this week.

In the UK, where calls for equality are admittedly met with less resistance, in general, than in the gender minefield that is US evangelical culture, Christian advocates for equality have also been active, with the launch of gender - based violence charity Restored in 2010 and the publication of Jenny Baker's Equals (SPCK) this year, which talks about the practical outworking of equality in family life, work, and church.

He acknowledges that it is a messy business and one for which he has drawn criticism, (Metaxas stridently criticised Trump during the nomination process) but, like so many of his evangelical contemporaries, Metaxas believes that loyalty to his country, and the Christian values it was founded upon, means that compromises have to be made for the greater good.

While Evangelicals greatly respect the way in which the Catholic Church has defended many historic Christian teachings against relativizing and secularizing trends, and recognize the role of the present pontiff in that important task today, they believe that some aspects of Catholic doctrine are not biblically warranted, and they do not accept any claims of infallibility made for the magisterial teachings of popes or church councils.

The Catholic church does not deny cosmology or evolution which is why some evangelicals don't consider Catholics to be Christians.

In communion with the body of faithful Christians through the ages, we also affirm together that the entire teaching, worship, ministry, life, and mission of Christ's Church is to be held accountable to the final authority of Holy Scripture, which, for Evangelicals and Catholics alike, constitutes the word of God in written form (2 Timothy 3:15 - 17; 2 Peter 1:21).

A pacifism which belittles or ignores this aspect of the cross will not, for very sound reasons, find a welcome hearing among evangelical Christians.

I talk about how the evangelical obsession with sex can make Christian living seem like little more than sticking to a list of rules, and how millennials long for faith communities in which they are safe asking tough questions and wrestling with doubt.

Another church that comes to mind is Missiongathering in San Diego, which is associated with the progressive denomination The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), but which has a very evangelical «feel» to its worship because it attracts a lot of folks who come from evangelical traditions and enjoy evangelical worship but are looking for a church that welcomes LGBT people.

The Evangelical Alliance (EA), the umbrella organisation for evangelical Christians in the UK, has withdrawn from the Coalition for Marriage (C4M), which campaigned against the introduction of same - seEvangelical Alliance (EA), the umbrella organisation for evangelical Christians in the UK, has withdrawn from the Coalition for Marriage (C4M), which campaigned against the introduction of same - seevangelical Christians in the UK, has withdrawn from the Coalition for Marriage (C4M), which campaigned against the introduction of same - sex marriage.

We tend to give preeminence to the evangelical tradition, large portions of which happen to be teachings the vast majority of Christians abide by.

While many (not all) evangelical conferences leave me longing for the freedom to deconstruct and many (not all) progressive Christian conferences leave me longing for something solid upon which to rebuild, «Why Christian?»

It can constitute a ground for the notion that celibacy must form part of the ideal Christian life: the «evangelical life» which the Church of the fourth and later centuries identified with monasticism.

The year 2017 will have been a wasted opportunity for Evangelical Christians if their leaders use it as a mirror in which to admire their own reflections.

Because of the opprobrium which soon became attached to the word, most of those opposed to liberal Christian thought preferred to call themselves «evangelical».

Evangelical Christian translators of the New International Version of the Bible (the NIV) add in a footnote that the word translated as «tail» might possibly refer to «trunk,» which means the translators of the NIV can't seem to tell one end of this mythical beast from the other!

On the other hand, the direction in which some of the professionals want to lead - one that plays down the Christian distinctiveness of evangelical R&D work - is one many donors wisely do not wish to follow.

It is projecting an Urbana - style convention on evangelical social witness, annual conferences for pastors to explore avenues for the involvement of congregations in community justice issues, and the formation of vocational task forces among evangelicals in politics, business and other callings, through which the shape of American political and business life might be altered to promote Christian values.

Another reason why the all - encompassing label «Jews for Jesus» is unfortunate is that Rosen's organization uses confrontation tactics which many Messianic Jews (and some evangelical Christians) can not condone.

Yes, Barack Obama is the wrong type of Christian for white evangelicals in America, they are willing to fall head over heels in love with Mitt Romney the Mormon, of which most of these churches have preached against this religious group from the inception that it's a CULT and you need to stay away from that type of doctrine.

And he concludes: «This experience taught me, a conservative evangelical, that when Christian witness is done in a spirit of vulnerability, service, and openness to others, it is evangelism... Proselytism, in contrast, is motivated by a spirit of churchly pride which goes against the grain of the Gospel.

When I use the word «Christian» in the article, I'm not talking about the young woman's theology, which is Bible - based and may be closer to the American evangelical than, say, the liberal Episcopalian pastor down the street!

Back in the «70s, when evangelicals were debating Reformed - versus - Anabaptist perspectives on faith and politics, I participated in a forum in which a self - proclaimed «radical Christian» urged all of us to «stand over against everything this American political system stands for.»

This should be adequate as a fundamental belief within which Christians can harmonize our evangelical effort.

Brenda has become what some call «Christian famous» - a renowned evangelical speaker who tours the country with the likes of the 2012 Women of Faith tour, which will reach tens of thousands of Christian women with a message of hope and faith.

The spectrum of evangelical opinion concerning social ethics which these periodicals define could perhaps be sharpened by further explication of the positions of representative individual Christians.

The heat generated by this topic is witness to the fact that we are, in Pinnock's words, «close to the heart of the conception of religious authority in our evangelical confession, which «limits the ground of religious authority to the Bible.3» There is a «deep relationship between origin and authority» that can not be ignored.4 Thus discussion concerning the implications of inspiration is of interest to all evangelicals who seek to be Biblical Christians.

In which I tell you the truth about telling the truth:: I'm pretty sure not a single homosexual in the Western world is unaware that most evangelical Christians believe their desires and / or lifestyle to be sinful.

We talked with Mitch Hescox, the president and CEO of the Evangelical Environmental Network, which works to «educate, inspire and mobilize Christians in their effort to care for God's creation.»

Evangelicals and Catholics do not know how or when Christian unity will come about but look forward to that day when we are fully united in the common witness for which Jesus Christ himself prayed.

Newt Gingrich has met with hundreds of evangelical pastors in the state, talking policy but also about past marital infidelity, which many Christians consider a sin.

As a woman whose opportunities for Christian leadership were severely limited by the conservative evangelical culture in which I was raised, blogging has given me a voice and a reach I would not have otherwise had, and I am so grateful for that.

Pope Benedict made an apostolic visit to Great Britain that was cordial, positive, and well - received by the English press and people, during which he beatified John Henry Cardinal Newman, recognising him as one of the great Christian witnesses of our time, first as an Evangelical Anglican and then as a Catholic.

She had already learned how to forge a conservative alliance between traditionalist Catholic and evangelical Christian women, and she deftly enlarged the coalition to include Mormon and Orthodox Jewish women in a decade - long battle in which the stakes, as she defined them, were the home, the family, and traditional faith and culture.

I see hypocrisy and vitriol from both Christians, Agnostics, and Atheists so it just proves that people are still people, being gay or fat or devoutly Christian or not has nothing to do what kind of person you are and my wife and I have gay and straight friends, agnostic friends, evangelical friends, we don't discriminate, which is what Jesus Christ would have done in the first place.

While many mainline and some evangelical leaders criticized the validity of this interpretation of the Christian faith, the paid - time broadcasters intuited accurately that television had become the «real world» for millions of people, one to which the Christian faith must be communicated in terms common to that world.

Evangelical and Reformed Christians often express discomfort with Thomas» distinction between natural and supernatural virtues, as they do with the parallel synergism of Roman soteriology which suggests that we can contribute so much to our own salvation but must then wait for God to complete it through his grace.

She's the editor of Christian Parenting Today, which situates her smack in the middle of evangelical America.

Some insist on interpreting the twentieth century as a period of unfortunate but temporary setback in Christian advance, comparable to those which occurred prior to the Reformation and to the Evangelical Revival.

So either evangelical Christians are not praying to Jesus regarding their selection of a life partner (which I don't believe for a second) or Jesus isn't listening.

As for Jefferson, Whitehead says he shared a high view of Christianity, which his statement evidences: «I tremble for my country, when I reflect that God is just,» The writer concludes that to call them «true deists is as erroneous as to call Karl Barth an evangelical Christian» (The Separation Illusion [Mott Media, 1977], pp. 20 - 21).

Two of the best efforts so far: the National United Christian Forum and the United Christian Prayer for India (UCPI), which Lal says represent 98 percent of India's evangelicals, Pentecostals, historic Protestants, and Catholics.

Lakshan Dias shared data from the National Christian Evangelical Alliance of Sri Lanka (NCEASL), which estimates that Christians were subject to 195 incidents of discrimination, intimidation and violence between 2015 and June 2017, while appearing as a guest on a television show.