Name Charles Brown CHMN 201- B05 - LUO September 28, 2015 Church Leadership and Ministry Evaluation Paper For this paper, I did a self evaluation. 1. Would you say that your congregation (or the people within your particular department or area of ministry) is “Thinking Like Jesus” (i.e. Unity, Humility, Selflessness) as they interact, serve, and minister to/with each other? How specifically do you as a ministry leader teach, cultivate, and maintain “The Mind of Christ” in your area of ministry
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Introduction by Francisco Rodriguez: We gather here today, united as brothers and sisters, all sons of God, to thank the lord and to embrace the journey of Peace which is about to begin. I am about to introduce a leader whose words are a chain of lead, in hope that he can inspire all of us who have joined the journey and to persuade many more to grab the hand of god and together search for peace among all. A few months ago on January 6 the country went into war with our neighboring country Chile
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Furthermore, we see so far in the notes above that the subject of the millennium takes up a larger portion of prophetic scripture developing the nature, conditions and extent than any other subject in the bible. The millennial kingdom is that age in which God’s purposes on earth will be fully realised. Dwight Pentecost comments in his book that “This age will see the fulfilment of all the covenants that God made with Israel” . In this paper, however, the position that will be defended is pre-millennial
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UNDERSTANDING DIVINE DESTINY Kenneth Omeje Scripture quotations marked KJV are from the Holy Bible, King James Version (Authorized Version). First published in 1611. Quoted from the KJV Classic Reference Bible, Copyright © 1983 by The Zondervan Corporation. Scripture quotations marked NKJV are taken from the New King James Version. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked NIV are taken from the Holy Bible, New International
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Jonathan Edwards was a popular Protestant preacher during the Great Awakening, a time of religious revival and fervor during the 1730s and 1740s. In his sermon “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” Edwards uses the rhetorical devices of imagery and repetition to convey the pilgrims’ attitude toward God and their way of life. Edwards’ profuse usage of imagery throughout his sermon conveyed the pilgrims’ attitude towards God. Imagery is a rhetorical device which consists of descriptive language
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Spencer, Thank you for sharing your copy of Radical by David Platt. I may have read it before, but I'm reading it again. It's funny how books effect you differently as you mature in your faith. I know that you time is important to you, so I thought I would put my thoughts into words in the hopes that they might be fewer. :) Some of what I say will be a repeat of what I've already mentioned, but I thought it might be nice to have it all in one place. 1. Jay and I are not leaving FBC due to conflict
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A Critical Review of Ormond Rush, 1999, “Determining Catholic Orthodoxy”, 123-142. ■ summary To begin with Rush defines orthodoxy as God’s revelation. According to him, there are discrepancies in comprehension of orthodoxy between “Dei filius” and “Dei verbum”; the former can be characterized as “monologic”, while the latter as “dialogic”. After explaining the characteristics of these two models, he clarifies what revelation is ; it “is the primary referent, authority and criterion of revelation
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According to Matthew Henry the apostle begins with a thanksgiving to God for the saving benefits bestowed on them. And then mentions the sure evidences of the good success of the gospel among them, which was notorious and famous in several other places. The apostle puts the Thessalonians in mind of the manner of his preaching among them. Then of the manner of his conversation among them, Afterwards of the success of his ministry, with the effects both on himself and on them and then apologizes for
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Puritans have a strict moral compass that has severe consequences if you do anything wrong. Jonathan Edward’s narrative, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, conceives a darker illustration to Puritan belief than Nathaniel Hawthorne’s narrative, Young Goodman Brown. The Puritans conclude, based on scripture that God hated sin and would punish you for it. Jonathan Edward describes God’s disapproval of wrong doing by saying “ That God will execute the fierceness of his anger, implies, that he will
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"Salvation" is excerpted from Langston Hughes' personal history as a sample of an occurrence that affected him incredibly. He was going to the church to see Jesus. Langston is actually a young man around the age of thirteenth who is by all accounts experiencing a typical religious custom that is ordinarily gave to youngsters when they achieve a specific age in what is by all accounts an alternate kind of society. At this age, youngsters are asked, or possibly even better, advised to have confidence
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