Tausen's preaching was so revolutionary that he no longer felt safe within the Order of Saint John, so he boldly discarded his religious habit and placed himself under the protection of the burgesses of Viborg.

Within days Tausen's ideas swept through the town.

Tausen's version of Luther's ideas spread throughout Denmark.

In 1529 Tausen's " mission " at Viborg came to an end.

Wendell Phillips ( 1811-1884 ), from a prominent Massachusetts family, in his teens was converted under the preaching of Lyman Beecher.

According to Ehrman, the Book of Acts tells a different story of Paul's career, but in this case it reports that, while there were " some " Jews converted during Paul's initial preaching in Thessalonica, the gentiles who were converted were " a large number " and the Jews as a body fiercely opposed Paul's work there.

Ulfilas converted many among the Goths, preaching an Arian Christianity, which, when they reached the western Mediterranean, set them apart from their Orthodox neighbors and subjects.

He possesses little sense of " preaching to the converted " ( in a very literal sense ), and aims his work more at influencing Protestants than placating his Ultramontane opposition.

* 1905-Gunnerius Tollefsen is converted at a Salvation Army meeting under the preaching of Samuel Logan Brengle.

According to this account, through a miraculous healing and his preaching Philip converted the wife of the proconsul of the city.

He afterwards spent a year in Geneva, and was powerfully influenced by the strict moral life and rigid ecclesiastical discipline prevalent there, and also by the preaching and the piety of the Waldensian professor Antoine Leger and the converted Jesuit preacher Jean de Labadie.

Everyone, therefore, ought to become converted to Christ, who is known through the preaching of the Church, and they ought, by baptism, to become incorporated into Him, and into the Church which is His body.

He was famously put in a lunatic asylum because of his preaching, but supposedly converted his doctor to the Hòa Hảo belief.

William Bickerton was among those converted by Rigdon's preaching, and was baptized at Pittsburgh in 1845.

And though she was a follower of the Arian law she was converted by the preaching of the bishops and the admonition of the king him self, and she confessed the blessed Trinity in unity, and believed and was baptized.

Dionysius the Areopagite ( Greek ) was a judge of the Areopagus who, as related in the Acts of the Apostles, (), was converted to Christianity by the preaching of the Apostle Paul during the Areopagus sermon.

He converted to Islam after attending regular preaching sessions of the Tablighi Jamaat, Pakistan's largest non-political religious grouping, whose preachers include Yousuf's former team-mate Saeed Anwar and his brother.

Wilfrid would thus have been literally preaching to the converted because everyone else was dead.

In fact, the newly-converted Harris visited him for spiritual guidance and direction, and it was through his preaching that Daniel Rowland was converted and began to preach Methodist ideas.

He was converted in 1737 as he listened to Harris preaching in Talgarth churchyard.

Daniel Rowland was converted through his preaching.

He returned to Wales as a schoolmaster ( 1638-9 ) during which time he was converted to the Puritan understanding of the Gospel of Jesus Christ under the preaching of the Puritan Walter Cradock and through the writings of Richard Sibbs ( 1577-1635 ) and William Perkins ( 1558-1602 ).

That didn't stop there being a massacre of several hundred ' Conversos ' or ' Marranos ', as newly converted Jews were called, in Lisbon in 1506, instigated by the preaching of two Spanish Dominicans, as a result of which many left Portugal for England, France, and Amsterdam.

His preaching was received with astonishment and acclamation by his hearers, and many were soon converted to the Reformed Faith, among them both Viret's parents.

Over the following years he travelled from village to village preaching with many people being converted.

Many of the inhabitants of Ammonihah were converted through the preaching of Alma and Amulek, but their message was rejected by most of the people.

The paper was aimed mainly towards the overthrow of Sir Robert Walpole's government ; there is some debate about its effects, with most historians agreeing it was doing little more than preaching to the converted.

The remainder of Abbadie's life was spent in writing and preaching, and in the performance — not too sedulous, for he was frequently absent from his benefice — of the ordinary duties of his office, varied by visits to England and to Holland, where most of his books were printed.

In his Pia Desideria, he gave six proposals of how to enact this reform: ( 1 ) to more thoroughly acquaint believers with scripture by means of private readings and study groups in addition to preaching ; ( 2 ) to increase the involvement of laity in all functions of the church ; ( 3 ) to emphasize that believers put into practice their faith and knowledge of God ; ( 4 ) to approach religious discussions with humility and love, avoiding controversy whenever possible ; ( 5 ) to ensure that pastors are both well-educated and pious ; and ( 6 ) to focus preaching on developing faith in ordinary believers.

The 1960s heralded a new culture of " free love " with millions of young people embracing the hippie ethos and preaching the power of love and the beauty of sex as a natural part of ordinary life.

The content of the Good News being communicated through mission is in many ways socially transformative and humanly liberating --- concretized in the preaching of the message to the poor, setting the captives free, giving sight to the blind ( Lk 4: 18 ), defending the interest of ordinary laborers and the value of work ( Laborem Exercens-Through Work ), promoting the welfare of the widows and the orphans, and protecting the rights of children and infants ( Pacem in Terris-Peace on Earth, pa. 12 ).

" It has " gained a strong hold on the imagination of many ordinary " self-described orthodox Sunni though, thanks to Sufi preaching.

In ordinary times, preaching is morally dangerous because those who hear and respond by mocking the faith crystallise their own damnation.

He concluded that selective service would not only prevent the disorganization of essential war industries but would avoid the undesirable moral effects of the British reliance on enlistment only -- `` where the feeling of the people was whipped into a frenzy by girls pinning white feathers on reluctant young men, orators preaching hate of the Germans, and newspapers exaggerating enemy outrages to make men enlist out of motives of revenge and retaliation ''.

Unprecedented gatherings of thousands of people attended camp meetings where they came to experience salvation ; preaching was fiery and focused on saving the sinner from temptation and backsliding.

The sons of Mosiah, named Ammon, Aaron, Omner and Himni, chose to devote themselves to missionary labors preaching to the people of the Lamanite nation, which periodically went to war against the Nephite nation.

In prison George Fox continued writing and preaching, feeling that imprisonment brought him into contact with people who needed his help — the jailers as well as his fellow prisoners.

He spent the next six years staging successful raids and evading capture by the French, reputedly killing over 6, 000 people, while preaching a fanatic vision of the destruction of white civilization in St. Domingue.

He spent much time among the people, ministering to their spiritual needs, carrying out missionary journeys, preaching, and performing miracles.

In addition to taking part in organized door-to-door preaching, Witnesses are taught that they should seek opportunities to " witness informally " by starting conversations with people they meet during routine activities such as shopping or on public transport, and directing the conversation towards their beliefs.

They were one of the chief tools in the Catholic Counter-reformation, the aim of the order being to work among the poor, impressing the minds of the common people by the poverty and austerity of their life, and sometimes with sensationalist preaching, such as their use of the supposedly possessed Marthe Brossier to arouse the Paris mob against the Huguenots.

His preaching, although not revolutionary in substance, was a plain-spoken and direct appeal to the people, using the Bible to provoke them to consider the teachings of Jesus Christ.

He travelled throughout Wales preaching and establishing seiadau ( singular: seiat ), local fellowships of Methodist people, for the converts he won.

In Israel during the Roman Empire, Jesus Christ of Nazareth travels around the country with his disciples preaching to the people about God and salvation of their souls.

Local people went to the Parish Church as usual and also attended Methodist preaching.

When the people of Nineveh ( Jonah 3: 5-10 ) heard the preaching of the word of God by Jonah they believed the message and turned unto God.

The Qur ' an mentions that Abraham's father threatened to stone his son to death if he did not cease in preaching to the people.

Zinzendorf preaching to people from many nations

In 1865 Booth was in the East End of London, preaching to crowds of people in the streets.

Besides contributing to Le Globe, he made appeals to the people by systematic preaching, and organized centres of action in some of the main cities of France.

Mahavira devoted the rest of his life to preaching the eternal truth of spiritual freedom to people around India.

In 1937, the door-to-door preaching program was extended to formally include " back calls " on interested people and Witnesses were urged to start one-hour Bible studies in the homes of householders.

As a practical matter, many Open assemblies have come to embrace the need to financially compensate an individual who has made preaching and teaching his full-time occupation, and these people are sometimes salaried or, perhaps more commonly, variously compensated as the Lord's people provide.

Opposition to gay marriage has also led the group to oppose hate crime legislation that includes sexual orientation, referring to such laws as " weapons against ... people who might oppose the homosexual agenda, such as Christians preaching on the street, even Christians preaching from the pulpit around the world.