Sentences with phrase «within evangelical churches»

Many people, including some disillusioned former members of mainline churches, found these answers within the evangelical churches.

From the perspective of race relations, what has your experience within evangelical churches been like?

I know feminism carries a lot of baggage, particularly within the evangelical church.

That speaks well of their character, well even of the Wheaton community, and well of some of the progress that's being made within the evangelical church.

I invited a handful of pastors and church leaders from different ethnic backgrounds to reflect upon their experiences within the evangelical church or to suggest steps Christians could take towards greater reconciliation.

In recent years, he has been outspoken in his opposition within the Evangelical Church in Germany to any approval of homosexual relations.

It also depends on the willingness of those within the evangelical church to reassess and reinterpret their cherished ethical positions in dialogue with fellow evangelicals whose differing theological traditions push them in new directions.

In sketching a cross section of current approaches to social ethics within the evangelical church, numerous approaches are possible.

To me, it's more a symptom of a larger condition within Evangelical church thought and practices, which is why, as Herd Evans points out, you hear 40 - somethings, retirees, etc., resonating with the frustration as well.

Here's an equation that outlines some of the problems that we find within the Evangelical church as it relates to this abuse.

Not exact matches

While the priesthood of all believers was used by the reformers to buttress an evangelical understanding of the church over against the clericalism and sacerdotalism of medieval Catholicism, the ecclesial context of this Reformation principle has often been eclipsed within major sectors of the Protestant tradition.

Evangelical Catholicism seeks to incorporate within the Novus Ordo the richness of the Church's ancient liturgical traditions.

I was raised Catholic, found myself getting involved in evangelical Christianity during my «youth group» teenage / young adult years, and within the past year have found myself returning to Catholic church for this exact reason:

«So at this point, traditional Mormons, evangelical Protestants and conservative Catholics have more in common with one another politically than they do with the more liberal elements within their respective churches.»

It was because we were advocating for other victims of sexual assault within the evangelical community, crimes which had been perpetrated by people in the church and whose abuse had been enabled, very clearly, by prominent leaders in the evangelical community.

Evangelical protestantants always have been a widely diverse group, even within the confines of specific churches.

This moralistic tendency in contemporary evangelicalism also leads evangelicals to play a divisive role within the church.

In conclusion, the above suggestions — Indoctrination, Incarnation, and Influence — are public, personal and practical ways for contemporary evangelical Christians to confront ongoing racism within our culture and even within the church.

I think that in this way, the emerging church is seeking to correct what has been a bit of an over-emphasis on apologetics and doctrine within the conservative evangelical community in recent years.

Incidentally, although evangelical media have been analyzed (Hoover 1988), very little research has been done on communication patterns within Churches.

Three conservative evangelical groups within the Church of England are combining strengths to show unity... More

Unlike the gap within the old - line churches, evangelical laity and R&D professionals remain similarly orthodox in their religious convictions.

Is Packer so famous because many Evangelicals agree with Ryken — that the ideals Packer stands for are discoverable within various institutions, practicable in every church?

These actions produced a dissenting movement which ultimately became the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches, formed in 1976 from five synods within the Missouri Synod tradition.

Ultimately, lesbian and gay people within the church will make a great contribution to construction of relational ethics and to evangelical outreach, which we pray will draw many others who are estranged, alienated or unloved, to Jesus Christ, to the household of faith, and into the reconciliation which has begun.»

Even the independent churches and radical evangelical groups remain recognizably within the tradition and usually preach a «strong and even pristine Christian message.»

A close friend of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, he remained within the Anglican Church and promoted its evangelical wing.

On the other hand, ordained women in ACNA and in other evangelical churches may well decide that their own vocations are better pursued back within Church of England - related Anglican churches, and one may see a strengthening of conservative female leadership there.

Such a threat to the vitality and integrity of the church's faith and life is discernible within the evangelical community today.

From Karl: As someone who submitted as an adult to an ancient branch of the Christian faith, what do you make of the «emerging church» movement within (primarily) American evangelical and post-evangelical protestantism?

Arise exists to encourage the next generation of female church leaders within the evangelical group of churches.

Other church groups, both within the evangelical movement and outside it (the African indigenous churches come to mind), are simply apolitical.

· A schismatic shift has occurred in the charismatic group within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

These organizations generally do not function as denominational entities within the evangelical world and thus, strictly speaking, are not the visible church.

And as for the rest of you Fundamentalist Evangelicals who think the Roman Catholic Church and Islam are not in America and vote for Ryan and ROmney and God knows who else look deep within your hearts and see its emptiness.

A consultation convened by the WCC in cooperation with the Innere Mission of East Germany's evangelical churches issued this statement: «We affirm the continuing need for institutions in which the most severely disabled experience help, protection and care, even while at the same time we call for the integration of the disabled and the able - bodied within the local congregation.»

In response, many faithful Episcopalians have jumped ship to become Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, or Evangelicals, or formed breakaway churches within the Anglican communion, sometimes under the authority of bishops in Africa and other places where traditional Christian moral beliefs remain intact.

It seems to me that the evangelical church particularly has traded the individual and corporate growth of the kingdom of God from within for a shallow conversion of worldview in people from without as the main mission of the church

To use a phrase which became a benchmark for theology within my own denomination - the Evangelical Covenant Church - there is a commitment to ask the question: where is it written?

Wesley's influence, however, was felt in the Evangelical revival within the Church of England, led by Charles Simeon (1759 - 1836), for many years vicar of Holy Trinity church in CambChurch of England, led by Charles Simeon (1759 - 1836), for many years vicar of Holy Trinity church in Cambchurch in Cambridge.

As someone who was raised within the evangelical camp (not strictly fundamentalist, however), and now lives anew within the broader Christian church (the only true church, the Body of Christ, whose members strive to follow Jesus in Spirit and in truth), I can surely appreciate what Hugh, Tara and Jeannie are talking about.

Within two or three weeks of the book's release I revisited my former Friendship Bible Class in Rockford's First Evangelical Free Church on a Sunday morning and participated in a six - hour symposium on MissionShift issues held in Morning Star Baptist on the following day.

Similarly, the reaction of the established churches to those theological mavericks and the conflicts the evangelicals caused within the churches then are not unlike the reaction and conflicts they have caused today.

Indeed, he said, «the entire evangelical subculture itself is a socially constructed reality... Evangelicals feel secure within the cocoon of this contrived universe of churches, summer camps, Bible institutes, colleges, and seminaries.»

(Neglect of these matters within our evangelical seminaries and churches have weakened worship and the message it conveys.

The significant proportion of evangelicals within the ecumenically organized denominations has not — even if some still hope to do so — countered the drift to theological pluralism, to missionary and evangelistic retrenchment, to social - action priorities, to debatable hierachical commitments that some aroused church members and many of the clergy resent.

While Liebert's comments may have been oversimplified and deliberately overstated, he was accurate in highlighting the conflict which the growth of evangelical and fundamentalist television over the past decade has caused within different American church groups and leaders.

Through the vitality perceived within evangelical programs, a viewer who is dissatisfied with the functioning of his present church may come to associate vitality with evangelical churches as a whole.

In the past, the fundamentalist and evangelical traditions within Christianity have tended to stand in a counterculture relationship with American society while the mainline churches have been more identified as a culture - affirming religious tradition.

Rev Judy Peterson has been stripped of her credentials as a leader within the Illinois - based Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC) after a picture of the ceremony emerged on social media.