Sentences with phrase «world evangelism»

Bob Jones University, Sovereign Grace Ministries, the Association of Baptists for World Evangelism, and the Institute in Basic Life Principles have all come under fire in recent years for not adequately addressing sexual abuse within their communities.

For example, when granting accreditation, American accrediting associations look with favor on «intercultural studies» as a discipline and on «international development» as a course, not on «mission studies» and «world evangelism.»

It said, «World evangelism is the God - given task of the Church.

(See Arthur Johnston, The Battle for World Evangelism (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House, 1978).

Using fictional stories about my attempt to become the world's greatest fisherman, I reveal some of the flaws in the church's attempts at world evangelism.

Since the church and the world exist for each other in the Gospel, radical thinking is necessary in the concept and form of world evangelism.

World gatherings of the Evangelicals, such as the Berlin Congress on Evangelism in 1966, the Wheaton Congress on World Christian Mission, also in 1966, and the Lausanne International Congress on World Evangelism of 1971, were seen by Winter and others as a response to the absorption of missionary concerns into the World Council of Churches.1

Weeks before the release of a nearly two - year investigation into allegations of sexual abuse of missionary kids, the Association of Baptists for World Evangelism (ABWE) has fired and replaced its investigator, Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment (GRACE).

The book is a satirical allegory about Christian attempts at world evangelism.

Watching the Jimmy Swaggart Ministries on television brought me back into an intense interest in the word of God and I am waiting for their World Evangelism Bible College to begin offering online bible college courses, which they say will be soon, but don't know for sure when they will begin.

They were brought into sharp contrast by the two «world evangelism» conferences sponsored just a few weeks apart in 1980: the meeting of the WCC Commission on World Mission and Evangelism in Melbourne in May, with the theme, «Your Kingdom Come,» and the Consultation on World Evangelization, sponsored by the Lausanne Committee, in Pattaya, Thailand, in June, with the theme «How Shall They Hear?»

San Diego Council is yet to give planning permission to Morris Cerullo World Evangelism to build the Legacy International Center but, if it's approved, it's set to be built by early 2018.

The Center's also set to have a spa and fitness centre, time - share apartments and holiday suites, work offices, an education centre and also act as the new headquarters of his ministry, Morris Cerullo World Evangelism.

Morris Cerullo World Evangelism is to start a funding drive in order to pay for the building of the theme park in the hope they won't have to take out a loan.

Not exact matches

This kind of scientific evangelism about solving the world's problems may sound interesting but perhaps outside serious consideration.

... and sometimes the world hates you for being a hateful jerk, forcing your evangelism down the throats of people who don't need to be scared with eternal punishment to be good.

The lay vocation, as understood by Evangelical Catholicism, is primarily one of evangelism: of the family, the workplace, and the neighborhood, and thus of culture, economics, and politics, bringing the gospel into all of those parts of the world to which the laity have greater access than those who are ordained.

ekklēsia) is the universal body of believers that functions under the headship of Jesus Christ and meets regularly in local assemblies to carry out the Great Commission through observing the ordinances of Baptism and the Lord's Supper and listening to the preaching of the Word of God, all for the edification of the believer and the evangelism of the world.

Teaching from the pulpit, for example, that God willed Adam and Eve to sin, that cancer is predestined by God, that prayer doesn't cause anything to change in the world, and that evangelism has no purpose since sheep are sheep and goats are goats?

Dr. John Sorensen, President of Evangelism Explosion International, a ministry that has trained millions of Christians around the world to share Christ, discusses the state of evangelism, research on evangelism trends, as well as myths and methods of eEvangelism Explosion International, a ministry that has trained millions of Christians around the world to share Christ, discusses the state of evangelism, research on evangelism trends, as well as myths and methods of eevangelism, research on evangelism trends, as well as myths and methods of eevangelism trends, as well as myths and methods of evangelismevangelism.

Alexandru Stan of the Romanian Orthodox Church summarized some of the thinking of the Eastern Church, from the time of Justin Martyr, on the presence of God in all peoples, Christian and non-Christian alike; Metropolitan George Khodr of Beirut extended Orthodox thinking on the wide and restless work of the Holy Spirit; and Bishop Anastasios Yannoulatos of the Greek Orthodox Church offered a perspective shaped by his work as moderator of the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism.

No matter the style of evangelism, crusade, one on one, or whatever, non of it has much lasting value unless it points to a deeper relationship with Christ, and leads to a relationship with His body in this world, the church.

I'm not keen on evangelism from any quarter — it would be great to live in a world in which one's spirituality and one's belief system aren't things you must insist that others join in order to feel that they are valid, or in order to hold that other person in high esteem.

ecclēsia) is the universal body of believers that functions under the headship of Jesus Christ and meets regularly in local assemblies to carry out the Great Commission through observing the ordinances of Baptism and the Lord's Supper and listening to the preaching of the Word of God, all for the edification of the believer and the evangelism of the world.

Conference Message and Acts of Commitment, Conference on World Mission and Evangelism, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, 1996.

Even if we can not pray for some of these goals with much affirmation — even if we find ourselves praying for the salvation of liberals before Christ returns, or the redirection of evangelical social concern to its proper sphere of evangelism and world mission, or the disappearance of the electronic church — God will answer our prayers, with corrections if necessary, and will either change our minds or the minds of those for whom we are praying.

This is an anthology of the monthly letter that R. Fung, a layperson from Hong Kong wrote when secretary for evangelism at the World Council of Churches.

Thus, evangelism in the modern world might be done with integrity, with effectiveness, and above all without planning to do evangelism.

Can evangelism, growing out of a simpler world, ever become sophisticated enough or refined enough finally to escape its basic attitude of imperialism?

Evangelism as a working concept was born in this kind of world, and it was defined by this kind of world.

[43] Significantly, when the IMC merged with the WCC in the New Delhi Assembly (1961) of the WCC, the new Division / Commission on Mission and Evangelism came to be called «Division / Commission on World Mission and Evangelism.»

[44] Ronald K. Orchard, ed., Witness in Six Continents: Records of the Meeting of the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism of the World Council of Churches held in Mexico City, December 8th to 19th 1963 (London: Edinburgh Press, 1964), 160 - 161.

At the first Commission on World Mission and Evangelism (CWME) meeting in Mexico City in 1963, «mission in six continents» became «the leit - motiv.»

[18] R. K. Orchard, Witness in Six Continents: Records of the Meeting of the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism of the World Council of Churches held in Mexico City, December 8th to 19th, 1963 (London: Edinburgh Press, 1964), 175.

Street evangelism has a bit of a bad reputation in the outside world, as well as with Christians.

Recently the faculty of Fuller Theological Seminary's school of world mission called on «Christians in all traditions to reinstate the work of Jewish evangelism in their missionary obedience.»

The use of force in the cause of evangelism roots in part in the understanding of God and God's relation to the world.

I think that this cartoon is an accurate portrayal of TV evangelism and the sooner that the American Church returns to the concept of the local church ministering here and around the world, then we will more authenically be responding to the Great Commission.

Evangelism happens when you live out the gospel in this world in front of your family, friends, neighbors, and coworkers.

Well, regardless of my strong personal opinions about the Warner's christian evangelism, this is still a good story, IMHO, and it sounds like they have, and are continuing to make efforts to do some good in the world.

Moreover, as it warned in an editorial on the 1974 International Congress on World Evangelization in Lausanne, evangelism must not be confused with the Christian responsibility for genuine social concern.»

We pledge ourselves to pray and work for unity in truth among all true believers in Jesus and to cooperate as fully as possible in evangelism with other brothers and sisters in Christ so that the whole Church may take the whole gospel to the whole world.

Generally these are local people already fully employed as pastors or in the secular world who can arrange «to free up» some time to respond to calls from churches in their home areas to do evangelism training or carry out preaching missions.

which began on the day of Pentecost in Acts 2 and gathers together in various physical locations for: exaltation of God by glorifyinig Him through a life lived in worship edifcation of one another through teaching, fellowship, and prayer evangelism of the world through social and spiritual acts of service

All the hoopla about online chat aside, there might be some opportunities for enlivening discourse among seminary students and faculty, within congregations, across denominations and perhaps even between different Christian groups around the world, Here's a cosmic thesis: the most interactive technologies, and the most dialogic uses of technologies, offer the greatest potential for both evangelism and community.

The subject of evangelism was drawn into the center of attention of the Assembly by M.M. Thomas in his moderator's report.53 Thomas said that since New Delhi, ecumenism had been marked by two thrusts which made it theologically distinct from the position of the earlier period of the World Council of Churches.

Philip Potter, the then Director of the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism of the World Council of Churches (who in 1972 became its General Secretary), wrote in the International Review of Missions explaining the reason why that particular theme had been chosen.

What is to be done to manifest more evidently the central concern of the World Council of Churches and its member churches for evangelism?

James A. Sherer points out that the Nairobi Assembly met at a time when the Churches of Africa, the Orthodox theologians, the Evangelical world and the Roman bishops were all giving attention to the meaning and practice of evangelism.

The World Council of Churches Commission on World Mission and Evangelism had convened a consultation of Orthodox theologians at Bucharest in 1974 on the subject of Confessing Christ Today, as a preparation for the Nairobi Assembly.