(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."
Gospel
Definition:
(v.) Glad tidings; especially, the good news concerning Christ, the Kingdom of God, and salvation.
(v.) One of the four narratives of the life and death of Jesus Christ, written by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
(v.) A selection from one of the gospels, for use in a religious service; as, the gospel for the day.
(v.) Any system of religious doctrine; sometimes, any system of political doctrine or social philosophy; as, this political gospel.
(v.) Anything propounded or accepted as infallibly true; as, they took his words for gospel.
(a.) Accordant with, or relating to, the gospel; evangelical; as, gospel righteousness.
(v. t.) To instruct in the gospel.
Example Sentences:
(1) And of course, as the articles are shared far and wide across the apparently much-hated web, they become gospel to those who read them and unfortunately become quasi-religious texts to musicians of all stripes who blame the internet for everything that is wrong with their careers.
(2) He called for care for the environment to be added to the seven spiritual works of mercy outlined in the Gospel that the faithful are asked to perform throughout the pope’s year of mercy in 2016.
(3) Archbishop Eliud Wabukala of Kenya said the “truth [of the Gospel] continues to be called into question in the Anglican communion” and warned against “the global ambitions of a secular culture”.
(4) The gay Ugandan church seeks to spread an alternative gospel of love and acceptance for all.
(5) Bono then serenaded the archbishop with the U2 hit Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, backed by the gospel choir.
(6) It just sort of clicked, because to me it was my version of gospel, but it wasn't about Jesus.
(7) 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.
(8) Wesley had consulted some sources, common sense, and his own experience, tempering those with the general principle of "doing good to all men," particularly "those who desire to live according to the gospel...." Thus, the Methodist patriarch's own formula for life had as much to do with the spread of Primitive Physick throughout eighteenth-century Britain and America as did all of the remedies and suggestions imprinted upon its pages.
(9) The Christian news website Gospel+ noted that Macedo had called for "media fasts" twice in the past.
(10) "He loved his work, loved his music, loved his guitar, loved gospel music and loved his mother."
(11) Their loss has been our gain as the longlist casts a wide net in terms of both geography and tone, ranging from the slimmest of novels – Colm Tóibín's stark, surprising The Testament of Mary conjures the gospel according to Jesus's mother in a mere 100-odd pages – to vast doorstops, playful with genre and form.
(12) His pervasive influence within the field of philanthropy stems more than anything from his treatise on 'wealth' , known as 'The Gospel of Wealth' , where he concludes: "the problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bind together the rich and the poor in harmonious relationship."
(13) Soon he would be helping to found the People's Songs organisation , with the aim of spreading the gospel of songs dealing with the lives of real people in the real America, the miners and mill workers and sharecroppers on southern plantations, a world away from the sophisticated classes celebrated in the songs of Broadway and Tin Pan Alley.
(14) "She was his favourite gospel singer, and he would ask her to sing The Old Rugged Cross or Jesus Met The Woman At The Well down the phone," Jones explains.
(15) Photograph: AAP In her famous 1913 pamphlet, Round about a pound a week , Maud Pember Reeves wrote contemptuously about “the gospel of porridge” – the idea, still common among the wealthy, that the destitute wouldn’t be so wretched if only they invested their money wisely.
(16) The scene is based on the account of Jesus' birth in the gospel of Matthew, though Matthew does not record a mishap whereby the magi accidentally bestow their gifts on Terry Jones in a dress.
(17) "This is the first time we've been able to throw out an idea like, 'Dude, it'd be cool to have a gospel choir', and it wouldn't get shot down."
(18) Since 2000, Ray Lewis has developed the persona of the wayward youth turned gospel preacher, a big reason why he has been able to end his career as a respected, at least in the game, 17-year-veteran who ended his career with a Super Bowl win with the only team he's ever played for, a team that very few people thought was good enough to get this far.
(19) The spread of the new gospel was a historic necessity.
(20) He washed volunteers’ feet on the steps of the capitol building in an allusion to the gospel of John, in which Jesus washes the disciples in what Cato said was an act of love “with no caveat”.