Sentences with phrase «work with evangelical»

Leaving aside Judaism for the moment, I'd like to concentrate on Neuhaus's work with Evangelical Christians, work with which I am deeply familiar.

He begins by remembering his diocesan work with evangelical members of the Lausanne Movement, particularly how they «shared the Word and prayer» (the notable absence of «sacrament» highlights the dilemmas that arise in ecumenical interactions).

The government will work with Evangelical churches and leaders to define and enforce laws of morality based upon God's clear biblical mandate.

I usually begin by confessing that marking and honoring the date of my baptism hadn't really occurred to me until a quarter - century or so ago, when I began working with evangelical Protestants on pro-life and religious freedom issues and noted that some of them had an interesting way of introducing themselves at a meeting.

Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., best known among evangelicals for his ecumenical work with Evangelicals and Catholics Together, died at 6:30 this morning at a Jesuit infirmary in Bronx, New York, first reported by In All Things, the blog of national Catholic weekly America.

Not exact matches

The question, which I can't answer with any confidence, is whether the «political maturity» that evangelicals evinced in Iowa works in Romney's favor down the road.

While any fair - minded high - church reader of Ross's work should be able to finish this book with a greater understanding of evangelical liturgical practices, I am not sure that he will come away from this book feeling more sympathetic to low - church evangelicalism.

But in the early primary state of South Carolina, with voters scheduled to go to the polls on Saturday and candidates working the state furiously this week, local evangelical pastors are using their influence to rally church members towards salvation, not electioneering.

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.

$ 23 In a now familiar genre that combines heavy doses of self - pity with unbridled polemic against an allegedly homophobic society and church, Mel White, an evangelical Protestant who now works with a gay church in Dallas, capitalizes on his brush with fame as ghostwriter to the likes of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson.

Evangelicals, too, work in partnership with younger churches, in the context of a radically changed Third World.

Woyita Olla, deputy general secretary of the evangelical Kale Heywet («Word of Life») Church (which evolved from SIM work), says relations with Muslims are good.

In the past, she has worked with Republicans on legislation that reformed the foster care system and encouraged more adoptions, issues I know matter to many pro-life evangelicals who advocate on behalf of adoption and open their homes to children.

The Rev. Jim Wallis, a prominent evangelical who has worked with Democrats, has a different perspective.

For many, the word has nothing to do with a spiritual context... I embrace the term evangelical, if by that we mean a belief that we together can actually work for change in the world, caring for the environment, extending to the poor generosity and kindness, a hopeful outlook.

I see a lot of fear from mainstream / fundamental / evangelical directions, when it comes to questioning, and a real fear of «doubt» but Jesus himself struggled with doubt and temptation and worked through them over a period of time.

Despite this split, the group still represents people with the same spiritual beliefs, said Stetzer, who recently worked with the National Association of Evangelicals to create a new definition of «evangelical.»

As evangelicalism in the U.S. has been working its way through something of an identity crisis over the past few years, and as many young evangelicals like myself have reconnected with the spiritual disciplines, this seems to be a recurring point of contention, and therefore one that should be addressed.

But our work together thus far has already established several points that may have an important bearing on the future of theological education in America: (1) the party - strife between «evangelicals» and «charismatics» and «ecumenicals» is not divinely preordained and need not last forever; (2) the Wesleyan tradition has a place of its own in the theological forum along with all the others; (3) «pluralism» need not signify «indifferentism»; (4) «evangelism» and «social gospel» are aspects of the same evangel; (5) in terms of any sort of cost - benefit analysis, a partnership like AFTE represents a high - yield investment in Christian mission; and (6) the Holy Spirit has still more surprises in store for the openhearted.

It is a commitment to hold together with those who share a similar norm, to carry on mature conversations, to affirm a oneness in the gospel, while working on the issues that currently divide.3 Evangelicals need the collective wisdom of their best minds and spirits working together on the theological task of the church.

In my job as a community developer I work with folks from evangelical baptists to muslims, hindus, and atheists and I've found that with common respect we can all work towards a common good.

Evangelicals are those who believe in (1) the need for personal relationship with God through faith in the atoning work of Jesus Christ, and (2) the sole and binding authority of the Bible as God's revelation, but they are at an impasse over the interpretation of major theological matters.

As I use the word in this book, it refers to that group of over forty - five million Americans and millions more worldwide who believe in (1) the need for personal relationship with God through faith in the atoning work of Jesus Christ, and (2) the sole and binding authority of the Bible as God's revelation.5 «Evangelical» is, first of all, a theological term, though its adherents may also have derivative sociological and psychological traits.

Timothy Smith's book Revivalism and Social Reform in MidNineteenth Century America, for example, argues persuasively that nineteenth - century evangelicals with their quest for moral perfection were at the forefront of the social battle, fighting against poverty, slum housing, racial intolerance, and inhuman working conditions.68 Smith's book has often been used by evangelicals to support their claim that they have been socially active.

Leave all of your own evangelical hero complex baggage behind for once, and just go, innocent and wise and open - handed, treat everyone you meet with reverence, and crack open your heart, and worship together, and pray, and make friends, and see what the great I AM is already doing in Haiti, and bear witness to the every - day work of the Kingdom of God.

P.S. I wrote an entire chapter in my latest book about the evangelical hero complex and our complicated relationship with our mutual callings and vocations and regular work, if you'd like to read more about this very thing.

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.»

While Evangelicals find no biblical warrant for the doctrine of Purgatory, we together affirm with Paul, «If the work which any man has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward.

Five hundred years since these Evangelical Catholics first began their reform, with Martin Luther nailing (or mailing) his Ninety - Five Theses, Lutherans are still at work proclaiming the Gospel.

It's probably the prairie kid thing, combined with the evangelical - mutt thing, but when acedia slinks into my soul, spreading into every corner of my life with an ooze, when my mind is fuzzy and apathetic, when I'm listless and worn out, burned out, on religion and parenting and marriage and family and everything about my life, I get to the daily, methodical, healing goodness of real work.

Earlier this year I was in charge of «debriefing» a small group of evangelical college students who had spent their spring break working with various agencies serving the homeless in inner - city Washington.

I keep hoping that evangelicals will not think my work compromises their emphases on the love of Jesus and on biblical authority, and that liberals will not suppose it is inconsistent with intellectual openness or commitment to peace and justice.

Today, such Pentecostal denominations are key parts of the National Association of Evangelicals, working with other evangelicals for worldEvangelicals, working with other evangelicals for worldevangelicals for worldwide impact.

After two weeks of interviews with St. Louis faith leaders and advocates, and several days on the ground moving between mobilizing efforts in Ferguson and dialogues with evangelical faith leaders, I see the same dynamic at work here.

And to be satisfied with merely working among the already converted is to fail in our evangelical and missional task — even when doing so confers ample rewards of fame, prestige and power.

I have entrusted only the Evangelicals with this information because my disk drive is not working properly.

A few months ago, I worked with LifeWay Research and the National Association of Evangelicals to help create a tool that looked at evangelical beliefs.

Scholars such as John B. Cobb and David R. Griffin have developed the Christological implications of Whiteheadian process - relational thought in a number of widely read works in recent years.1 «Evangelical» Christians, holding the Christian scriptures to be the uniquely inspired and authoritative charter documents of their faith, and finding in these scriptures a Christ whose divine humanity defies explanation in terms of any general metaphysical scheme, have had for the most part little interest in or even contact with these process - relational Christologies.2 That revelation presents to us this Christ is sufficient warrant for believing him; his being is, at any rate, incommensurate with ours.

I have worked with many fundamentalist evangelical cult followers who feel gleeful any time they imagine someone going to hell.

Mainline Methodists tend to stress good works, while evangelical Baptists focus on personal relationships with God.

On one occasion a group of American evangelical volunteers traveled to Barahona to spend two weeks «working with the youth.»

After an afternoon of laugher and collaboration, Adrian opened up about what it's been like working with other religious people, particularly evangelicals.

We've also been working in concert with other evangelical institutions here at the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities throughout the year on these issues.

One day the evangelical charity announced that it was changing its employment practices, to permit persons in same - sex relationships to work for it as long as they were «married» under some legal jurisdiction, and with all the....

In his three - volume systematic theology, The Evangelical Faith, Thielicke begins with the work of the Holy Spirit.

The smell like someone jamming two large needles a good deal up into your nasal cavity and then taking them out and then jamming them back in the diaper had to be changed though so I learned along with the wonder and amazement of responsibility in the life of a little universe just learning about how wonderful and talented it is and all it had to do was be born and stuff just worked unless the cuts came but I did let that happen not when homosexuals could get married and marijuana was legal now to remove the guns and evangelicals and live in peace with the other people.

For example, Pinnock says that evangelicals seek to maintain doctrinal continuity with the apostles and the early church while liberals work inductively from contemporary experience (13).

Working with development personnel and faculty, he is raising endowments for chairs in Lutheran studies, evangelical studies and Christian ethics, as well as for the Center for Religion and Society (the name was changed so as to include the Jewish studies program for which the college received a major ongoing grant).

We are well used to such Evangelicals, sharing with them the doctrinal and moral essentials of classical Christianity, a commitment to the Augustinian patrimony of the West, recent remarkable joint statements on justification, and much common work for the sanctity of life, Biblical standards of sexual morality, social justice, environmental responsibility and world peace.

A few thoughts come to mind, based on my own experiences in working with a wide range of Catholics and evangelicals, both because of my experience of being a student in a Catholic graduate school (Loyola University of Chicago) and working primarily with evangelical service groups (such as my current position with the Salvation Army).