Why he not she? : The Exclusion of Black Women in places of authority in the black church Black women’s vocalization in the Black Christian church is facing retrenchment. Black women are prevented from obtaining high positions in the pulpit, they are persecuted due to patriarchal roots, and the women with existing positons in the church are mocked. Black women preachers and Black women pastors . Preachers can preach the gospel while Pastors are allowed to lead
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I currently attend a church named C.U.M.I, which stands for Christ United Ministries International. My church’s denomination is Pentecostal Christianity. Although C.U.M.I is international, the population consists of mostly people of African origins. I am used to seeing predominantly Nigerians and a lack of diversity. However, my perspective was completely shifted when I visited Lakewood Church on February 12th. Lakewood Church is a highly diverse non-denominational church in Houston. C.U.M.I is a
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A number of new religious groups emerged during the Second Great Awakening. This was a time in which many Americans were looking for spiritual answers but instead of sticking to traditional Protestant beliefs they chose to look to new religious ideas. There were two main groups that grew rapidly during the 1830’s, these groups were the Unitarians and Universalists. Unitarians reject the idea that Jesus was the son of God, arguing that instead he was a great teacher. Their name comes from
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The name I chose for confirmation is Kateri. The name is derived from Saint Kateri Tekakwitha whom I chose to pray to and imitate in my preparation for Confirmation. I chose this Confirmation name because St. Kateri is a role model of the Catholic faith, devoting herself completely to Jesus Christ, and is the Patron saint of the environment and orphans. St. Kateri Tekakwitha was born in a Mohawk village of Ossernenon in 1656 to a Mohawk chief father and an Algonquin mother. Her father practiced under
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Sade Moseley Johnson Rhetorical Analysis Essay Cleage, Albert B. The Black Messiah. New York: Sheed and Ward, 1968. In The Back Messiah, Albert B. Cleage’s intention is to discuss the religious roots of black power by portraying Jesus as a black innovative leader because he wanted to save black people and believed that and giving them hope would help solve their economic and political issues. Cleage was a pastor of the Shrine of the Black Madonna and before pastoring he graduated from Oberlin Graduate
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John Calvin John Calvin was born in 1509 and he died in 1564. He sought salvation through intense theological study, and at some point he experienced a sudden conversion and grasped Protestantism. He came up with the term predestination. According to John Calvin, predestination was the doctrine which attempts to describe justification as the decision and act of God alone--an act based upon no external determinants, but only on God's own, divine decision. John Calvin also defined his doctrine of predestination
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The first stage in developing an expository message is selecting the passage. The preacher has to select the passage that they will be preaching from. One statement that I am surprised that was not mentioned in selecting the passage is going into prayer and receiving the passage or theme from the Holy Spirit. The purpose of selecting the passage is to have direction. The second stage is studying the passage. The preacher needs to understand the context of the passage, and have a clear understanding
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Marauders, Masks, Maladies, and Mendacities Hypocrisy is a word much bandied about these days. Heard it ad nauseam as a pastor. “I don’t go to the church because of all those hypocrites!” The word often refers to someone who is two-faced or inconsistent in words and deed. It always amazed me that marauders visiting the church for their own benefit accused everyone else of hypocrisy. Assuming their lives void of such a malady, they cast disdain an entire group of people. Seems, hypocrisy is everyone
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Bultmann's or Tillich's or even Alec Vidler's, I simply don't know. I see - and I'm told that you see - that it would hardly do to tell them what you really believe. A theology which denies the historicity of nearly everything in the Gospels to which Christian life and affections and thought have been fastened for nearly two millennia - which either denies the miraculous altogether or, more strangely, after swallowing the camel of the Resurrection strains at such
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Do not Forsake Before we go any further, I supposed it's as good a time as any to address that one verse arsenal someone within your sphere of influence would have squarely leveled at my head by now. “Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some.” (Hebrews 10:25 - NKJV) There it is — we are plainly admonished to go to church. My reply is simply that Scripture also states, “Every fact is to be confirmed by the testimony of two or three witnesses.” — 2 Corinthians
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