younger members to adopt a senior member of the church. The youth can bless a senior by alleviating loneliness, provide transportation, helping with home repairs, and running errands for them. The program Senior Connector provides referrals to seniors for home evaluation, transportation, “Meals on Wheels,” housekeeping, and telephone reassurance (Saucer & Elster 60-61). Therefore, this chapter gave more insight of how these model churches provided for the seniors. However, these ideas can be inspiring
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(Bridging the Gap/To the Core) #1: John Paul II refers to marriage and family life as the “school of love”. I believe that he says this because in marriage requires sacrifice and constant learning of how to give oneself up for their partner. In marriage, an individual must give up their desires out of respect for their partner to ensure that the union is fair. #2: As it is said in the text, Ephesians 5:22-23 are some of the most misunderstood verses of the Bible because they are usually analyzed
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Pentecostalism as a denomination is historically African American and is commonly known as being Holiness. Today, with its many members, women continue to face challenges in obtaining official pastoral roles in the 21st century, Other denominations e.g. , Southern Baptist, Presbyterian, and African Methodist Episcopal churches are overcoming this challenge by preventing women from becoming pastors. Although there are several sects within the Baptist and Presbyterian churches that are divided on
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equality, communal ownerships, strict celibacy, and religious fervor through dance. They were kept alive for a period of time because they were waiting for the second coming of Christ. The second group was the Oneida community, inspired by unorthodox Christian perfectionism. Joseph Humphrey, the founder, had outlawed marriage. Since he believed that Christ had already come for the second time, thus humans no longer had to abide by the laws of the Bible. Free-love was placed into
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The Great Awakening was a movement in colonial times influenced by leaders such as George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards. One of Jonathan edwards’ most influencial sermon was “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”. In this sermon, he demonstrates how God’s wrath is unstoppable and only Christ can save you from an eternity of misery. In his sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God’, Jonathan Edwards impacts religious beliefs of colonial American people through rhetoric and persuasion during
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The writer suggest that the statement has such truths that needed to be embraced by the body of Christ that is looking to be reflective of our general society If the church expects to reach this generation we must be on the cutting edge of multi-ethnic teachings that helps the church to reflect what is happening within our societies. Too often the church is behind the secular community, when it comes to embracing a new trend that impacts our society. In addition, the authors comments, “She argues
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Greeting and good morning. It was wonderful to fellowship with the beautiful and finer ladies of Zeta Zeta Zeta Chapter, the Amicae and youth. Laughter is wonderful thing and we certainly had plenty of that this past weekend as well as inspiring and uplifting words from both Rev. Downing and Pastor Anitha. We are moving to higher ground! Even as the Sigma Zeta Ensemble sang "I need you more" and reminded me that we should give our best in all things put our hands to do, well today let's
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believe that baptism brings the child into the covenant community where he or she will have the blessing of hearing the gospel preached as they grow up as members of the church.” Yet, this viewpoint represents a new nature of heresies among the Christian community. However, Schreiner and Wright, makes the effort to uphold the authority of the Word of God knowing
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Migliore points out some critical issues within the different models of the church. I agree with the majority of his understanding due to my own experiences with attending church. My family never attended church while I grew up. But the weekends I spent with my cousins we had always attended church on Sunday's. Some of the things I noticed with their church was that they were very exclusive in helping families within the community and often did camps and such to help those in need. The church always
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group had left off on Step Two, which talked about believing in a higher power (God) in order to reestablish their sanity. It caught me off-guard that there was so much religiosity in the meeting. Not that religion offends me, as I consider myself a Christian, but I thought that the program would be more politically correct and neutral by either leaving religion out of the recovery aspect completely or by addressing more than one religious entity to appease those who did not believe in God. But the members
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