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evangelize /ɪˈvan(d)ʒ(ə)lʌɪz /(also evangelise) verb [with object]1Convert or seek to convert (someone) to Christianity: some small groups have been evangelized by Protestant missionaries...- The fastest-growing Alliance churches are Chinese, especially among newly arrived Chinese Christians evangelizing their own people.
- Jesus wants to teach all of us to evangelize our friends and family just as effectively as he evangelized his first followers.
- Others like Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya Yemen and Saudi Arabia have firmly resisted attempts to evangelise their people.
Synonyms convert, proselytize, bring to God/Christ/Jesus, bring into the fold, redeem, save, make someone change their beliefs/mind, make someone see the light, spread the gospel/faith/word (to), preach (to), seek/make converts (among), act as a missionary; crusade, campaign; win over, recruit; North American proselyte 1.1 [no object] Preach the gospel: the Church has a mission to evangelize and declare the faith...- We should go out to preach and evangelise, realising that only the Lord can remove the veil of unbelief.
- The church that does not evangelise must surely fossilise!
- He has further left no doubt about the Church's universal mandate to evangelize, contending that evangelization and inter-religious dialogue need not be mutually exclusive.
Derivativesevangelization /ɪvan(d)ʒ(ə)lʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n / noun ...- He has further left no doubt about the Church's universal mandate to evangelize, contending that evangelization and inter-religious dialogue need not be mutually exclusive.
- Equally surprising, Catholic clergy have been seeking advice from Presbyterian pastors on strategies for evangelization and church growth.
- Recent popes have been calling the Catholic Church to a new evangelization.
evangelizer noun ...- It is obvious that the laity do have to be energized to become evangelizers, reminded of their history in the extended sense.
- I would use other language, never having been able to settle in to a simple, relaxed universalism, being a sort of evangelizer at heart who rejoices in the open embrace of Christ among all the peoples.
- His hunger was gone, and he was his own boss who could appoint the evangelizer as his helper.
OriginLate Middle English: from ecclesiastical Latin evangelizare, from Greek euangelizesthai, from euangelos (see evangel). |