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In Christianity, the Great Commission is the instruction of the resurrected Jesus Christ to his disciples to spread the gospel to all the nations of the world. The Great Commission is outlined in Matthew 28:16–20, where on a mountain in Galilee Jesus calls on his followers to make disciples of and baptize all nations in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
A Christian proselytizer trying to spread his faith in London, England, 1970. Proselytism (/ ˈ p r ɒ s əl ɪ t ɪ z əm /) is the policy of attempting to convert people's religious or political beliefs.
Theologically conservative evangelical, Pentecostal, Adventist and Mormon missionaries typically avoid cultural imperialism, and focus on spreading the gospel and translating the Bible. [40] In the process of translating local languages, missionaries have often been vital in preserving and documenting the culture of the peoples among whom they ...
The mission of the Church is to spread the gospel. "Missional church is a community of God’s people that defines itself, and organizes its life around, its real purpose of being an agent of God’s mission to the world. In other words, the church’s true and authentic organizing principle is mission. When the church is in mission, it is the ...
Evangelii Nuntiandi is often cited [example needed] as a source for the New Evangelization of the Catholic Church, which was described by Pope John Paul II as a call for each person to deepen one's faith in God, believe in the Gospel's message, and proclaim the Good News. The focus of the New Evangelization calls all to be evangelized and then ...
Common forms of spreading Evangelism include preaching or distributing bibles; in tracts, newspapers, and magazines; through the electronic media; and by street evangelists. [3] [4] [5] The Bible records that Jesus sent out his disciples to evangelize by visiting peoples homes in pairs of two believers (cf. Luke 10:1–12). [6]
Bart D. Ehrman attributes the rapid spread of Christianity to five factors: (1) the promise of salvation and eternal life for everyone was an attractive alternative to Roman religions; (2) stories of miracles and healings purportedly showed that the one Christian God was more powerful than the many Roman gods; (3) Christianity began as a ...
From Constantine I, when Christianity became the official religion of the Roman empire, the position of Christians to Jews changed.Some laws were instituted which protected the rights of Jewish converts from disinheritance, other laws also protected from abuse of the privileges of conversion from those who converted from Judaism "only for a cancellation of debt;" which suggests that in some ...