Sentences with phrase «with evangelistic»

Wasn't it the case that in the first years of the church that the pagans saw Christ being displayed in the behaviour of the believers and that was what drew them to the faith (along with evangelistic preaching.)

I don't know whatever became of Tyler, although years ago somebody told me was a drummer with an evangelistic musical group that played the Southwest.

One of the fundamental challenges with evangelistic cultural engagement is how far to go to engage culture.

We will begin in this chapter with the evangelistic - authoritarian approach which has been used chiefly with low - bottom, homeless alcoholics.

Not exact matches

Some, like Youth with a Mission (with a thousand young people serving one - year terms overseas) and Teen Missions (sending teen - agers on summer work programs and evangelistic teams), offer mission opportunities to a specialized American constituency.

Evangelistic efforts meet with excuses and procrastination because of Spiritual warfare.

My preparedness for this encounter had little to do with being some sort of evangelistic expert and more to do with my experience of God's love.

Christianity Explored Ministries (CEM), the evangelistic course pioneered by Rico Tice, has announced a partnership with Prison Fellowship International... More

Jitsuo Morikawa gathered around him a group of imaginative younger Christians (including Harvey Cox, at one time), and with them he initiated a program they called Evangelistic Life Styles.

Graham - the president and CEO of the international Christian relief organization Samaritan's Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association - is the son of Billy Graham, the famed evangelist with many political ties.

Could you help me with letting me know what studies are showing «that only 6 % of people who «come forward» at an evangelistic crusade are any different in their beliefs or behavior one year later.»

A remarkable exception to this was the case of Captain Tom Crocker who rejected the offer of a full clinical setup, complete with social workers and psychiatrist, in favor of the straight - evangelistic approach.

The percentage of failures by both groups suggests the need for trying other than evangelistic approaches with homeless alcoholics.

In fact, only after Romney showed up for a meet and greet with Billy Graham in North Carolina earlier this month did the website of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association erase a reference to Mormonism as a «cult.»

Crucially, it was the Holy Spirit's impact on the leadership of HTB, including on Nicky Gumbel who was by now heading up Alpha, mediated by the prayers of John Wimber, John and Ele Mumford and others, that led to an environment in which an evangelistic course with a «Holy Spirit weekend» was invested in.

The project partners with local services to offer practical support and Sally is clear it is not an evangelistic tool.

The Holiness reform impulse is largely evaporated, and often in the recent identification with the «evangelical» world even repudiated as inappropriate for a properly «spiritual» and «evangelistic» church.

Pat Holmes was a 16 - year - old Londoner with no church background when she attended an evangelistic meeting at the Harringay Arena in 1954.

The evangelistic tactics that would call them back to the world view of yesterday, a world view they abandoned ages ago because it no longer made contact with their lives, are doomed to failure.

But is the «ministry» that goes along with them still «evangelistic» in the old missionary sense, i.e., actually uneducated in a pastoral sense and not properly connected with the other dimensions of mission?

Preaching became associated with the context of worship; so that it takes a strong reminder that preaching may also be evangelistic, i.e., the message addressed to those who do not share the assumptions of the preacher.

Today's street evangelists stress the importance of having a deep and intimate personal relationship with God; many also feel it is essential to find other Christians who share the same evangelistic goals.

In view of such insensitivity, some local churches refuse to cooperate with mission teams, and insist on working only with those development and evangelistic practices that empower the poor without exposing them to the embarrassing rich.

Other tasks, too, besides interpreting Scripture face theologians, tasks both intramural (dealing with the church) and extramural (dialoguing with the world)- tasks of phenomenological analysis of theologies past and present and of apologetics, philosophical, evangelistic, and defensive - but these can not be spoken of here either.

This works well for those who have winsome Christian friends with the boldness to invite them to evangelistic events.

In the process, he developed and cultivated an extensive network of evangelical leaders and Christian businessmen who would sponsor and support his evangelistic crusades and who would cooperate with each other in myriad similar ventures.

I remembered lines from songs that we had sung with endless monotony at «evangelistic meetings»: «I surrender all.»

«Why is it that our evangelistic efforts are often fraught with failure?»

Over 23,000 people attended the JustOne evangelistic event at the Emirates Stadium in London last month, with 1,743 recorded as making a response to the gospel.

Instead, they determined that they had made a theological error, having bought into the Primitive Baptist Movement, and that all they needed to do was to return to a more evangelical and evangelistic way of being Baptist, which they did by affiliating with the Southern Baptist Convention.

Let me illustrate with small - group Bible studies, which our church has found to be our most authentic and exciting evangelistic event.

Evangelistic preaching not infrequently centers in «getting right with God» before death overtakes us.

In return, the evangelical community, whose focus of commitment is less scattered and whose financial contributions are more generous than members of mainline churches, 7 has faithfully supported such perceived evangelistic efforts with its time (viewing) and money.

In the classical sense revival is not, as some of our American brothers would regard it, a series of evangelistic meetings, but rather a phenomenal sovereign intervention from God which starts in the Church, often leading to profound repentance and fresh encounters with God.

He assumed in his evangelistic apologetics that God is a necessary companion in the human pilgrimage, and human life makes better sense with him than without him.

In the following chapter, I will issue a call to cancel several word - heavy evangelistic programs, and exchange them for a way of life that lives and shares the gospel in a tangible way with others.

To gather her data, Harding plunged into Falwell's evangelistic empire in Lynchburg, Virginia, by attending worship services, mingling with congregants, visiting Falwell's Liberty Baptist University and interviewing other pastors.

Christianity Explored Ministries (CEM), the evangelistic course pioneered by Rico Tice, has announced a partnership with Prison Fellowship International (PFI) that will see it play a major part in prisons work throughout the world.

with my fellow students here in Burundi, we started about 9 months ago an Evangelistic Ministry called Announcing Jesus Christ Ministry (AJCM).

CNN: Billy Graham site removes Mormon «cult» reference after Romney meeting Shortly after Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney enjoyed cookies and soft drinks with the Rev. Billy Graham and his son Franklin Graham on Thursday at the elder Graham's mountaintop retreat, a reference to Mormonism as a cult was scrubbed from the website of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.

«Bigness» is, moreover, a «powerful evangelistic tool «28 and provides the resources necessary for effective programs of worship and ministry.29 The local church is here viewed as a mechanism with the capacity for greater or lesser efficiency in doing the work of God.

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Dr. Wheeler envisions from an evangelistic background, the transformation of humanity through relationship with Christ, as per Biblical tradition and Christian experience, in a process - relational mode.

WLGM is an evangelistic ministry comprising a group of covenant people that have given their lives for the preaching of the cross.it works in conjunction with community housing, human development agency and social help.

This desire is tied up with our humanity, with our embodied existences as sexual beings, with our being made in the Image of God: It is creational, evangelistic, and self - giving.

I am not sure that the $ 50 million per year number is accurate, but regardless, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association does a lot of good with that money other than just hold crusades.

Because our overhead costs are low, we are able to support missionaries throughout the world, Because our members are active, we are able to finance and engage in a variety of evangelistic, educational and justice ministries locally, and to partner with local congregations in many parts of the world.

As I reflect on the wisdom dispensed in these nugget - size units, I wonder whether such signs fairly represent the teaching that goes on in their churches, or whether they are evangelistic ploys based on the principle that you begin by giving people something helpfully nonthreatening and then, once you've caught their interest, hit them with the gospel.

Through its internal life of eucharistic worship, thanksgiving, intercessory prayer, through planning for mission and evangelism, through a daily lifestyle of solidarity with the poor, through advocacy even to confrontation with the powers that oppress human beings, the churches are trying to fulfil this evangelistic vocation.

Some churches prefer evangelistic sermons every week, and other churches prefer one person to deliver an expositional monologue for one reason: People no longer put up with «sound doctrine» but instead gather around themselves a host of teachers who tell them what their itching ears want to hear (2 Tim 4:3 - 4).