(n.) A bringer of the glad tidings of Church and his doctrines. Specially: (a) A missionary preacher sent forth to prepare the way for a resident pastor; an itinerant missionary preacher. (b) A writer of one of the four Gospels (With the definite article); as, the four evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. (c) A traveling preacher whose efforts are chiefly directed to arouse to immediate repentance.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Evangelist Christian right is at the heart of Harper's Conservative party, and after years of being shushed, it will now demand an end to a number of things, including abortion rights.
(2) From their landmark album OK Computer on, the band seemed like evangelists for the revolutionary possibilities of a digital world, self-releasing 2007's In Rainbows on a pay-what-you-want download.
(3) The new technology has not proved as popular as some industry evangelists predicted, initially because of the cost of digital sets.
(4) The torch began its day in Greenwich Park, where the equestrian events will take place, and progressed through the east London neighbourhoods that evangelists of the London Olympics believe will be regenerated by the £9.3bn in public money poured into the area It ended the day in Waltham Forest in the hands of Fabrice Muamba, the Bolton Wanderers footballer who suffered a heart attack on the pitch at White Hart Lane in March and was raised in the area.
(5) Mugisha says evangelists have played on the psyche of many Ugandans.
(6) He was a cannabis evangelist, who believed it was wrong to deny anybody its healing powers.
(7) At this point, venture capitalists are drooling over bitcoin and its possibilities,” says Roger Ver, a bitcoin investor and evangelist whose philanthropic donations earned him the nickname “ Bitcoin Jesus ”.
(8) Bret Conkin, FundRazr This could really be the future for charities: The charity sector that adopts this method in their mix will find it a powerful and empowering method to overcome donor fatigue, marshall evangelists and create deep connection.
(9) The John XXIV of the Left Behind series – 16 books by the Christian evangelists Tim LaHaye and Jerry B Jenkins – was also contentiously presented.
(10) There are those who point out that Ferguson's preferred model of US behaviour, as an evangelist for liberal democracy, backed by military force if necessary, is also fantastically expensive.
(11) Anton Yelchin obituary Read more Meanwhile, I’m keeping a hopeful eye on Paul Dano , whose career to date has been full of surprises, from evangelist to Hitler impersonator to Pierre in War & Peace.
(12) The main speakers were three US evangelists: Scott Lively, Don Schmierer and Caleb Lee Brundidge.
(13) St Luke Passion James MacMillan ’s latest biblical work, based on the Gospel of Luke with the adult chorus acting as the evangelist and a children’s choir singing the words of Christ, gets its British premiere, courtesy of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by the composer.
(14) (Rodman, incidentally is in North Korea at the time of writing, promoting basketball for Paddy Power, and possibly also trying to secure the release of an American-Korean Christian Evangelist called Kenneth Bae.
(15) He is an evangelist, sharing the love of Christ which he himself knows.
(16) Not entirely surprisingly, he seems caught between the upbeat outlook of the cultural evangelist, and the pessimism of someone keenly aware that the Cajun life is on the wane.
(17) "Games don't have to punish players," says Oscar Clark, a gaming evangelist at EveryPlay .
(18) Kenneth Bae, a Korean American described by a North Korean court as a militant Christian evangelist, is also being held in the North after he was arrested in 2012 and sentenced to 15 years' hard labour on charges of seeking to topple the regime.
(19) We are evangelists,” said Bishop Serpa, who is the Cuban head of the Caritas charity and the head of Catholic missions to Cuba’s prisons.
(20) That news prompted Kenneth Roth , executive director of Human Rights Watch, to tweet: "In name of Africa culture Uganda Pres will sign anti-gay law pushed by US evangelists toughening British colonial ban."
Evangelize
Definition:
(v. t.) To instruct in the gospel; to preach the gospel to; to convert to Christianity; as, to evangelize the world.
(v. i.) To preach the gospel.
Example Sentences:
(1) The evangelical pastor knew he faced an almighty task.
(2) But somewhere along the way, his passion for good, fresh food – admirable and infectious in every respect – appears to have transformed into evangelical life-coaching.
(3) The plot departs from the good book in big ways, small ways, in fact any way the makers (evangelical husband and wife Mark Burnett and Roma Downey) fancy.
(4) This enduring strain of belief has found more recent echoes in both Islamism and the US evangelical right.
(5) But Nick Loening, owner of Ecoyoga in the Scottish Highlands, is evangelical about the benefits of a good soak and gently insistent that his guests make the most of the various bathing options at his retreat – regardless of the weather.
(6) No true evangelical ought to be tempted to give such tales any credence whatsoever, no matter how popular they become,” Johnson wrote.
(7) A lot of clubs, Boro included, take increasing notice of such data these days but few are quite as evangelical as Brentford.
(8) Jim Gianopulos, the chairman of Fox Filmed Entertainment, went on a Singularity University course, and has since become evangelical about it.
(9) Santorum, a social conservative much further to the right than Romney and endorsed by Christian evangelical leaders, hopes to turn himself into a magnet for the substantial number of anti-Romney conservatives.
(10) • Lord Anderson of Swansea sponsored a pass for Lyndon Bowring, executive chairman of Care, the evangelical Christian group.
(11) Michel claimed that God had deserted Shenouda's congregation and that more than a million Copts had become Muslims or evangelical Christians.
(12) Brin and Page remain joint presidents, Brin in charge of technology, Page responsible for product launches, but the rapid growth of recent years has been steered by chief executive Eric Schmidt, 53, who came on board in 2001 as the commercial 'brain', negotiating the founders' evangelism and the shareholders' thirst for profits.
(13) I think it’s okay as a Catholic to get my guidance as a Catholic from the Pope but certainly not economic policy or environmental policy.” Trump has previously questioned the faith of another adversary, Ted Cruz, saying: “You gotta remember, in all fairness, to the best of my knowledge, not too many evangelicals come out of Cuba, OK?” Cruz’s father is an evangelical pastor who emigrated from Cuba, and the senator has pursued extremely religious voters throughout his campaign.
(14) Trump did seem to recognize that no one would mistake him for a devout evangelical.
(15) I am a Protestant and I am very proud of it,” Donald Trump told Liberty University, the largest evangelical institution of higher education in the United States, on Monday, as he attempted to appeal to this key demographic in the Republican primary.
(16) Conservative evangelicals often quote a verse in Leviticus which describes sexual relations between men as an “abomination”.
(17) But the paper was also canny enough to say the school would be run by evangelical Christian sponsors."
(18) Had they but known, Robinson, from a poor Southern share-cropping background, was one of the most evangelical of American bishops.
(19) Mission's films aren't evangelical tools, part of a grand crusade – they're designed to plug a gap in the market.
(20) Evangelicals, wherever they come from the US and elsewhere, should bring good news of inclusion and love of God rather than sowing seeds of discrimination and hate,” he tells me before adding: “The Gospel is supposed to be liberating to marginalised people.