But only an example of multitudes who have become near-sighted and unfruitful through a so-called new evangelism that is not new.
In reading popular books on Home Missions we cannot but be grieved at the flings and thrusts at the old evangelism and the laudations of the new evangelism.
To prove that the old evangelism is defunct, attention is called to the fact that seven thousand sectarian congregations did not have a single convert in an entire year.
Evangelism and the History of Religious Conviction.
The convictions that prompt evangelism and missionary zeal are the result of centuries of race experience.
These organizations stood for total abstinence and State prohibition, and by temperance evangelism and temperance education the women especially pushed their campaign nationally and abroad.
This method of Scripture interpretation makes evangelism an enterprise of fanatics not sufficiently educated to know that Buddha and Confucius were teachers of truth long before the time of Christ.
For the redemption of society a new evangelism is needed.
This is the new evangelism for which the world is waiting.
And therefore the new evangelism must learn to find its motive not in self-love, no matter how refined, but in the love that identifies the self with the neighbor.
The old type of evangelism has plainly had its day.
The failure of the modern evangelism is not conjectural: the year-books show it.
This is, in fact, the essence of the new evangelism to which the young men and women of this day are called.
If the business of the church is what we have found it to be, and the new evangelism is such as we have outlined, the Christian ministry must offer to any man whose heart is on fire with social passion a great opportunity.
This is the gospel of the new evangelism which it has taken the church a long time to learn, but which she is now getting ready to proclaim with demonstration of the spirit and with power.
The new evangelism will not emphasize the interest of the individual; it will rather emphasize the truth that the individual can only be saved when he identifies his own welfare with the welfare of his fellow men.
VIII The New Evangelism Those who have followed these discussions from the beginning will not be inclined to hesitate in answering the question with which the last chapter closed.
Howe wrote this book at the request of the Division of Christian Education and the Division of Evangelism of the American Baptist Convention.
This orientation could be the source of a new evangelism that would make its witness heard in the depth and detail of human life.
I Evangelism is the attack of redemptive energy in the sphere of personal life.
Christian evangelism in the past has not had an adequate understanding of the power of the group.
But we can justly reason from our own observations inevangelism and foreign mission work.
Sets forth with skill and completeness the method of evangelism that best appeals to the men and women of the present day.
Leaving, therefore, the question of rural evangelism for treatment in another place, let us take up the educational treatment of the newcomer in the country community.
One should add that it is also evangelistic, but I have in mind the possibility that these newcomers may be Catholics with whom Protestant evangelism will not be successful.
These two principles, evangelism and hierarchism, are found in the Christianity of the first centuries, but with a signal difference.
The Christianity which was brought to these people by merchants, soldiers, or missionaries, although not the ecclesiastical catholicism already creeping into life in the Roman empire, was not the primitive evangelism of the apostles.
Thus, whenever the high tide of evangelism comes in, the landmarks of sects are scarcely visible; but whenever the tide goes out, behold, the ancient boundaries of sects appear as before.
Evangelism is becoming more and more detached from organized denominations, and the denominational lines are being ignored in a way that would have astonished the people of a century ago.
The rising tide of evangelism among such is already beginning to overflow the lines of sect.
It is one of the most grievous tragedies of the spiritual realm that conscience often finds the sunny climate of an ardent evangelism singularly enervating.
In the events of tele-evangelism there is no place for literacy.
These are particular expressions of religion in the civilization of illiteracy, as much as TV evangelism is.
Much of the evangelism the little white-faced cousin had superimposed upon his mind that night of wild passions had gone now, burnt up as he drew nearer to simple, beautiful, essential things.
The Christians were much more zealous in evangelism than the Reformers had been before the outburst of evangelistic fervor with John Smith and a few other "New Testament Baptists" in Kentucky and the campaign of Walter Scott in Ohio in 1827.
The first year of this new evangelism brought more than 1,000 additions to the churches of the Mahoning Association, more than doubling their total membership.
More important than this was the sledge-hammer evangelism that he carried on incessantly, with the spoken as well as the written word.
But their method of evangelism had been of the Methodist type.
Stone had expressed the same idea earlier but he did not make much use of it, and the evangelism of the Christians does not seem to have been greatly affected by it.
Jesse Bader has been at the head of its department of evangelism for many years.
The zeal and motives of it all are commendable; but the bane of such evangelismis this: the work stops at the resolution period.
Doctrines floating under the banner of evangelism which do not get believers into the kingdom must be listed with the enemy.
To be sure the church should emphasize evangelism and the need of church membership.
Every door seemed wide open before us, and the time ripe for a specially aggressive campaign of evangelism for the heathen.
As I thought of facing the crowds of heathen women day by day, and what it would mean to carry on aggressive evangelism outside, there was one need I felt must be met--that of a Bible-woman.
The examples of Paul's missionary preaching which Luke has preserved, are perhaps preliminary to evangelism, rather thanevangelism itself.
Despite the importance of social reforms, the first purpose of true Christian evangelism is to bring the individual man clearly and consciously into the presence of his God.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "evangelism" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
