Ladies and gentlemen of the class of 2017‚ Today is the first day of the rest of our lives. We won’t have to worry about homework and grades anymore. We’ll have so much free time. We’ll finally be able to do whatever we want. Our parents can’t stop us anymore. Everything is finally going to work out. At least that’s what we all want to believe… The truth is‚ life just got way more complicated. Suddenly‚ we will no longer have the safety we’ve always counted on. We will have to fend for ourselves
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Reproduced with the permission of the family of Donald McGavran. “No one in the world of missions today is so profound a thinker‚ so traveled an investigator‚ so fearless a critic‚ or so constructive a force as Donald McGavran. These lectures throw down the gauntlet to today’s Christian leaders‚ theologians‚ and executives like no other book. What a bold challenge‚ what a fascinating biographical approach‚ based on ninety years of perceptive existence!” Ralph D. Winter “In a day of great opportunity for world evangelizationand no little confusion
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Church as Institution and Church as Mystical Communion In 1974 Dulles published Models of the Church to address questions concerning ecclesiology-the study of the church. Many people believe that they know the meaning of the church‚ which is a place to become closer to God. However‚ there is more than what meets the eye when it comes to the Church‚ since it is a very complex organization. Dulles’ book identifies and describes the different functions the Church possesses which Jesus Christ founded
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THE CHURCH STRUCTURE Thelma Grannison DSMN 620-D02 December 15‚ 2012 INTRODUCTION Churches throughout the world teach the Good News in diverse settings. Some churches use a the pulpit to deliver their message every Sunday‚ while others take a more organic approach meeting outside the walls of the church in several places to deliver the message of Jesus Christ. In America‚ the mission of the church is set against an environment of secularism. Secular values of diversity and extreme
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BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Family to Family Submitted to Dr. Gene Jefferies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the completion of EVAN 525 Contemporary Evangelism by Shawn T. Hunt October 4‚ 2014 Abstract The book Family to Family is a concrete guide for the family that has lost connection with itself. The very purpose of the book as stated by the authors is to “discover God’s purpose for your family‚ develop a family mission statement‚ establish core
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The Orthodox Church Christian Denomination 1. What are the key beliefs of your Christian Denomination? Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism were once branched from the same body of religion “the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. In 1054 AD a formal split occurred when Pope Leo IX (head of the Roman Catholic Church at that time) who ignored the Patriarch of the Constantinople‚ Michael Cerularius (Leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church at that time). The main beliefs of the Orthodox
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The Eastern Church vs. the Western Church In the year 1054‚ due to political‚ cultural and religious reasons‚ the Great Schism divided Christianity into the Eastern Church (the Orthodox Church) and the Western Church (the Catholic Church). As a result of the Schism‚ differences increased between the two. The primary differences are the Papal claims of authority and the insertion of the filioque clause into the Nicene Creed (Ware‚ 1963). Since the two were one prior to the Schism‚ there are similarities;
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l22748411 CHMN 201 CO3 LUO 10/24/2010 CHURCH LEADERSHIP PAPER The subject of my evaluation‚ let’s call him Tb‚ an interesting young brother; converted at an early and called to be in the service of the lord almost immediately. His background speaks greatly of the way we should all strive to instruct our children in methods of behavior and interaction with others . He serves as the Youth Pastor at the church where I currently attend. He
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Chapter I Church Growth: Definition Introduction: Tremendous growth is going on in the Christian Church today. For some observers this tends to be obscured by the world population and the increasing percentage of non-Christians which that so far implies. Meanwhile‚ the fact is that the number of Christians is greater now than it has ever been. With the rise of Churches and the expansion of the Church among non-Christian populations‚ multitudes of small congregations of less than hundred members
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Church Of God I. ORIGIN Most of the Pentecostal churches which bear the name "Church of God" can be traced to a holiness revival in the mountains of northwest Georgia and eastern Tennessee. In 1884‚ R.G. Spurling‚ a Baptist minister in Monroe County‚ Tennessee‚ began to search the Scriptures for answers to the problems of modernism‚ formality‚ and spiritual dryness. An initial meeting of concerned people was held on August 19‚ 1886‚ at the Barney Creek Meeting House to organize a new movement
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