Data source: Gina A. Zurlo and Todd M. Johnson, eds., World Christian Database (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2024).
| Glossary item | Definition |
|---|---|
| Evangélico | (Italian, Portuguese, Spanish). The term usually used for Protestant in Latin Europe and America; including also Anglican, marginal Christian, and Non-White indigenous (Christians). |
| evangelism | The activities involved in spreading the gospel. |
| evangelism | The church’s organized activity of spreading the gospel, in circumstances it can control, in contrast to witness which is the normal term for the informal, spontaneous, unorganized sharing of their faith by individual Christians in circumstances they do not control. |
| evangelism-hours | Amount of time in hours spent by evangelists among a specific population. |
| Evangelism-in-Depth | A program and philosophy of mobilizing the total membership and resources of the churches of an area for proclamation of the gospel to non-Christians; initiated in 1960 in Latin America, later on other continents; keynote-’The expansion of any movement is in direct proportion to its success in mobilizing its total membership in continuous propagation of its beliefs’. |
| evangelist | One who offers the good news through public preaching. |
| evangelistic | Concerned with offering the good news through public preaching. |
| evangelistic association | A para-church agency formed around the evangelistic ministry of a professional evangelist (mostly in the USA), which then tends to become virtually a separate denomination. |
| evangelistic campaigns | Each year several hundred campaigns of one to ten weeks’ duration are held in cities across the world, usually co-operatively by most denominations in an area, specifically for evangelistic purposes. |
| evangelistic distance | The number of distinct religious and cultural frontiers or barriers that exist between a Christian worker, evangelist or missionary, or a group of such and their target population; measured by adding cultural distance and religious distance up to a maximum of 11 frontiers. |
| evangelistic frontier | From the standpoint of evangelism, a religious or cultural frontier (qv) which forms a barrier or obstacle to evangelists or other Christian workers. |
| evangelistic outreach | See outreach into the world. |
| evangelistic witness | An Orthodox term used in preference to evangelism or evangelization. |
| evangelistics | The science of the propagation of Christianity. |
| evangelistics | The science of, or the scientific study of, the growth and expansion of Christianity. |
| evangelization | (1) The whole process of spreading the good news of the Kingdom of God. (2) The extent to which the good news has been spread. (3) The extent of awareness of Christianity, Christ and the gospel. |
| evangelization | (a) The whole process of spreading the good news of the Kingdom of God; (b) the extent to which the good news has been spread; (c) the extent of awareness of Christianity, Christ, and the gospel. |
| evangelize | To spread the good news of Jesus Christ, with signs following, persuading and convincing people to obey him as Lord in the fellowship of his church, and to serve him responsibly in the world. |
| evangelize | To spread the good news of Christ, with signs following, in both supernatural power and compassionate deed, to preach, to persuade, to call to faith in Christ; and 700 other meanings in English. |
| evangelized | The state of having had the good news spread or offered; the state of being aware of Christianity, Christ and the gospel. |
| Evangelized Non-Christian World | In the 3-tier schema, this is World B which consists of all non-Christians who have nevertheless become evangelized. |
| evangelized non-Christians | Persons who are not believers in Christ but have nevertheless become sufficiently aware of Christianity, Christ and the gospel to be regarded as evangelized. |
| evangelized person | An individual who has had adequate opportunity or opportunities to hear the gospel and to respond to it, whether he responds positively or negatively. |
| evangelizer | One who spreads the good news; used of (1) Christ, (2) any Christian active in evangelism, and (3) any full-time worker involved in evangelism. |
| evangelizer | A Christian who is active regularly in witness, evangelism, and winning others to Christ. |
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