Christian religious practises‚ such as baptism‚ have a deeply significant influence on the lives of adherents. Most Christian denominations‚ apart from Quakers and Salvation Army‚ practise baptism. Which is a salvation ritual based upon the old Jewish tradition of “Mikvah”‚ which is the process of purification through ritual bathing. Baptism is also an initiation ritual in which has many important symbols‚ the most important being water‚ which symbolises the cleansing of original sin. It has an important
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WHAT IS THE CHARACTERISTIC OF DISCIPLESHIP? YOUTH RETREAT PURPOSE STATEMENT -2012 The main purpose of Christian discipleship is to be like Christ and might develop an individual spiritual life and making the Leader of church. The discipleship is to emulate the character of Christ and also to surrender to god and bearing fruits for the kingdom of God. Christian discipleship begins when you make an active choice to get to know Jesus better by God’s grace. Because we belongs to the
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The Mission is one of the films that help to bring out the issue of Christian church controversies that characterized the eighteenth century. The movie features events that occurred in Latin America in which Jesuit missionaries were under threats arising from the pragmatic needs of their doctrines and order. This challenge is further made complex by the predatory racial prejudice of European settlers‚ coupled with the political pressure stemming from the colonial imperialists. The dominant religious
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CHRISTIAN VIEW OF SIN The Christian views of sin are based on the teachings of sin as taught in the Bible. There is no fact as evident and no subject as important as that of sin‚ which is as old as man‚ since it originated in the mind of Satan before the creation of man. Before the disobedience of Adam and Eve‚ sin was present in the angelic world with the fall of Satan and Demons. Satan became the first sinner‚ when lifted up with pride‚ and desired equality with God. Isaiah 14:12 – 14 says‚
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Christian Monasticism in Fourth-Century Egypt In the study of Christian history‚ the institution of monasticism seems to present one of the most interesting cases for examination. From its beginnings‚ other Christians have revered monasticism as a particularly demanding lifestyle‚ one that is emblematic of the highest level of devotion to God. The sacrifices that monks make are undertaken with the specific intent of achieving closer communion with God through a rejection of the outer‚ human world
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chapters 17-19 in Anthropology for Christian Witness Charles Kraft covers a range of topics; Education‚ family‚ and status and role. Through these three chapters we see the importance of looking outside our own culture and our own ‘world’. In the sense that we can not safely assume that everyone else lives the same way do. Education can be something we simply look at as “accumulating of information” but something much more. Chapter 17 in Anthropology for Christian Witness Charles Kraft breaks down
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Many regard Langland’s work as a variation on the classic Pilgrim’s progress’ story for the fourteenth-century Christian. The poem is often called a spiritual autobiography; but this is a simpliste description‚ the ironical result of the very vividness of Langland’s presentation of his dreamer. The poet records a spiritual crisis that he experienced after a disputation with friars in later years. The poem‚ like Dante’s‚ is certainly in one sense a Pilgrim’s Progress--but hardly in Bunyan’s sense;
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These four questions make up the foundation that defines a specific worldview. Faith plays a major role in the determination and shape of our worldview (35). Ideally‚ a Christian worldview permeates every aspect of a Christian’s lifestyle because we are made new after accepting the Holy Spirit into our hearts. This part of the Christian worldview begs to ask the question regarding "Why is it important for believer to continue to grow in Christlikeness?"‚ even after we have accepted the Holy Spirit. Since
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for them to have their own church. To help with of his son Bramwell and a good friend of his they started an annual report‚ which is called “THE CHRISTIAN MISSION is A VOLUNTEER ARMY”. His son really felt strongly against this wording so booth decided to change the word volunteer to the word salvation. Now the sign read‚ “THE CHRISTIAN MISSION is a salvation ARMY.”
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There are many reasons to why we often misinterpret the Bible. Most common thing that Christians do is taking the words out of context and use it the way they want to. Taking sentence or phrase out of context and leads to a different meaning of the original message. When we pulled individual verses out of the text‚ we ignored the surrounding paragraph which causes us to misunderstanding the real definition of that story. Schultz talks about the four types of Biblical context which could be distinguished
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