How to Use evangelism in a Sentence

evangelism

noun
  • Supporters describe it as evangelism—a method to get the word out faster and farther.
    Brice Particelli, Harper’s Magazine , 7 Dec. 2021
  • The group has also been doing door-to-door evangelism, Killian said.
    al.com, 27 June 2019
  • Every member at Catch of the Day goes through Dunmore’s evangelism course.
    Julie Zauzmer, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2018
  • The mask of 20th century-style tele-evangelism has slipped all the way off, revealing the dark egos of its preacher-leaders.
    Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 22 May 2020
  • Heaven’s Glorious Embassy’s evangelism team plans to give away meals to those in need of help.
    Dallas News, 23 Nov. 2022
  • That surprises me, that surprises me since the essence of evangelism is to seek converts.
    Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 20 July 2017
  • Before the war in Ukraine, the European Union was resolute in its green evangelism.
    Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 30 June 2022
  • Thankfully, this mild mosquito evangelism does not go so far as to include them in the live menagerie.
    Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 26 June 2019
  • At Hillsong, living well and looking good are sometimes framed as forms of evangelism.
    New York Times, 5 Dec. 2020
  • To Osteen, the Night of Hope crowds testify to the overwhelming success of his church's media-savvy evangelism.
    Katherine Blunt, Houston Chronicle, 7 June 2018
  • Thanks to the evangelism of Turner, Taylor remade his approach, adding a leg kick to help with timing as well as an uppercut.
    SI.com, 23 Oct. 2017
  • His grandfather, fighting that huckster stereotype, asked three male colleagues to help him make a list of things that could hurt evangelism.
    Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
  • The district has, in the past, approved these types of groups, one example being the Good News Club, which is an after-school child evangelism fellowship group.
    Valerie Pavilonis, USA TODAY, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Cole’s style of baseball evangelism predates the Bananas.
    New York Times, 31 May 2022
  • Researcher Christina Vital has been studying evangelism in Rio’s favelas and suburbs for the last two decades.
    Kiratiana Freelon, The Root, 16 Dec. 2017
  • By 1963, Leary and Alpert had become so enamored of psychedelics that their behavior may have bordered on evangelism.
    Rebecca Coffey, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Thanks in large part to bitcoin evangelism by top officials in Miami, the city has spent the past couple of years in full-blown cryptomania.
    Jake Cline, CNN, 15 Jan. 2023
  • At the Oslo Freedom Forum, there is much enthusiasm for bitcoin — almost an evangelism — as a freedom tool, and a moral-good tool.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 15 Oct. 2021
  • Who had been devoting the energy to these issues that had been devoted to evangelism?
    Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2021
  • The event, Together ’22, was meant to appeal toward a younger, more open and progressive faction of Christian evangelism.
    Dallas News, 25 June 2022
  • All these varied diseases could be caused by molecular evangelism gone wrong.
    Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2011
  • The boy’s name was Abdullah Kenan Karaca, and after Stückl promised his parents there would be no efforts at evangelism, the 11-year-old joined the town’s other children in one of the play’s massive crowd scenes.
    Michael Paulson Roderick Aichinger, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2022
  • In fact, the most interesting narrative that emerges from this book may be the evolution of its author’s tone, from evangelism to damage control.
    Krithika Varagur, The New Yorker, 25 May 2022
  • Already teed up by Cawthorn's callow election night victory tweet, the outrage from the left was swift, and much of it focused specifically on Cawthorn's evangelism.
    Bonnie Kristian, TheWeek, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Now, these same people seek out Oaxacan mole and fresh masa tortillas because of the evangelism and dedication of Bayless.
    Michael Nagrant, RedEye Chicago, 1 Mar. 2018
  • As the elder Graham enters his 100th year, the library plans to honor his eight decades of ministry by highlighting a different event or aspect of his evangelism each month.
    Tim Funk, charlotteobserver, 1 Nov. 2017
  • Pastors vowed to renew their sense of mission and urgency of evangelism, putting the pandemic shutdowns behind them.
    al, 12 Jan. 2023
  • In the 1990s, his unquestioned integrity helped save television evangelism after the public falls from grace of Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart.
    David Briggs, cleveland.com, 21 Feb. 2018
  • For churches like Hillsong Atlanta, the ultimate goal is evangelism.
    BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2021
  • Malave said the grouping team found one parish would be more cohesive for evangelism efforts in the area while also addressing the declining number of pastors available.
    Bill Jones, chicagotribune.com, 27 Jan. 2022

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