Word Finder - evangelizing

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To tell people about (a particular branch of) Christianity, especially in order to convert them; to preach the gospel to.

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To preach any ideology to those who have not yet been converted to it.

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To be enthusiastic about something, and to attempt to share that enthusiasm with others; to promote.

The meeting was held and ten months later Bourne was expelled by the Burslem Quarterly Meeting, ostensibly for non-attendance at class (he had been away from home, evangelizing), really, as the Wesleyan superintendent told him "because you have a tendency to set up other than the ordinary worship" which was precisely the reason why, fifty years earlier, the Anglican Church had declined to sanction the methods of John Wesley.

The Nestorian Church in Eastern Syria and Persia was under the jurisdiction of an archbishop (catholikos), who in 498 assumed the title "Patriarch of the East" and had his seat at SeleuciaCtesiphon on the Tigris, a busy trading city and a fitting centre for the great area over which the evangelizing activity of the Nestorians now extended.

Duff saw that, to reach these communities, educational must take the place of evangelizing methods, and he devised the policy of an educational mission.

We have seen St Benedict evangelizing the pagan population round Monte Cassino; and a considerable time each day is assigned to the reading of the Fathers.

Apart from Queensland most of the black population is in West Australia; here the Roman Catholic Church is the main evangelizing agency.

After the war of 1856 a measure of official toleration was obtained, and the task of evangelizing the country was fairly begun.

Since childhood he had been filled with zeal for foreign missions, and he conceived the determination to found a great English missionary college to fit young priests for the work of evangelizing the heathen.

Both these types of Baptist life permeated Georgia, the latter making its influence felt in Savannah, Augusta and the more cultivated communities, the former evangelizing the masses.

He then began an evangelizing tour in Bath, Bristol and other towns, his eloquence at once attracting immense multitudes.

The remainder of Whitefield's life was spent chiefly in evangelizing tours in Great Britain, Ireland and America.

A few settlements on the banks of the main river and some of its tributaries, either for trade with the Indians or for evangelizing purposes, had been founded by the Portuguese pioneers of European civilization.

Immediately after the island became a French possession the French Protestant Churches began (in 1896) to take part in the evangelizing of their new colony, and about half the area for long occupied by the London Missionary Society was transferred to the Paris Society.

It's not just by accident that students rooms are not piled high with evangelizing material.

He spent several years in founding churches and evangelizing, till his success tempted him to pass into other districts.