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April 28 2010 By virtueonline Seven Characteristics of Highly Evangelistic Christians

The Great Omission

It is so obvious. Indeed it is so clear that I am surprised at my neglect of this factor. Stated simply, the evangelistic churches that I have researched for the past twenty years have one or more highly evangelistic Christians.

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April 28 2010 By virtueonline Online missionaries spread Gospel in cyberspace

With tomorrow being designated Internet Evangelism Day (by the Internet Evangelism Coalition), Michelle Diedrich of GMO said she wants "to change the way we think" about the Internet.

"We are the first generation - ever - to hold in our hands the technology to give every person on earth multiple chances to accept Jesus Christ," Ms. Diedrich, GMO's communications director, said in the Wednesday seminar.

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April 21 2010 By virtueonline SINGAPORE: "The Gospel of Jesus Christ--Covenant for the People - Paul Swarup

Light for the Nations

I. The Covenant background

The theme I have been asked to address is being a 'Light for the nations'. Yesterday we heard about being a Covenant People. In the Covenant with Abraham we note that Abraham was called by God to be a blessing to the nations. In Gen 18:19 we note that Yahweh says:

Illust Covt. Walking between the Pieces - Gen 15:17 - Yahweh binds himself on oath. His word is backed up by his life.

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April 21 2010 By virtueonline SINGAPORE: Mission and Evangelism in East Africa

This, along with the Great Commission, is a well-known text for mission. Few of us could deny that in our contexts there are crowds of harassed and helpless people, like sheep without a shepherd. They are the harvest, and the harvest is, indeed, plentiful. Isaiah records God asking, "Whom shall I send? Who will go for us?"

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April 06 2010 By virtueonline Graham Tomlin wants to bring theology back to church

Holy Trinity is best known as the place where the Alpha Course-which teaches seekers the basics of the Christian faith-launched in the late 1970s and has since been used by over 13 million people worldwide. Tomlin, who has led several Alpha courses, says the class works "because it offers an unthreatening, lively context in which to hear more about Christianity, but crucially also the chance to disagree, debate, and tell stories.

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April 05 2010 By virtueonline Unwavering Faith: How the Taliban Failed to Break 8 Christians

"I feel like this (the story) is a testimony of God's faithfulness to people called into places that are risky and people who respond to that call to go to the places that most people wouldn't go," said Henry O. Arnold, co-author of the book Kabul24 and producer of the documentary version of the story, in an interview last week.

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April 04 2010 By virtueonline Charismatic Renewal Marks 50 Years

The revelation angered some church leaders, who eventually asked Bennett to resign. "His experience was explosive because the Episcopal Church is known to be a very proper, intellectual and historic church," said Rita Bennett, the rector's widow and president of the Christian Renewal Association in Edmonds, Wash. "Some people were happy and said they wanted to be prayed over too. But others were not happy at all. They didn't understand."

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April 01 2010 By virtueonline An Easter Commitment to Restore Our Church Through a Return to Core Beliefs

That percentage hasn't changed over the past 31 years. An unscientific poll conducted over the past four months by ETF asking respondents which they favor - the 1928 Book of Common Prayer (BCP) or the 1979 revision - has shown that the percentage favoring the traditional BCP has held steady despite more than three decades of diluted liturgy. The poll does not reveal how many respondents are still in the Church.

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March 12 2010 By virtueonline Controversial Archbishop of Nigeria Peter Akinola steps down with purpose

The event that was to include national and international church leaders would have displayed the significance of his six-year tenure, a time when the African primates began to lead rather than follow their Western counterparts. Instead the Nigerian is in a downtown D.C. restaurant-counting the hours until his plane departs ("six"), marveling at the snow ("a wonderful and fierce problem for me"), remembering what lies behind, and straining toward the future.

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March 05 2010 By virtueonline NEW YORK: New face of evangelism: One church, multiple sites

Then, again, Keller, founder and senior pastor of Manhattan's Redeemer Presbyterian Church, will dash back to West 79th Street for his fourth service of the day at three leased locations.

It's not the traditional American mom-and-pop church, where the same pastor counsels parishioners, visits when they're ill or marries or buries them.

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