Christian Family Research Paper

The article “Understanding Families” by Linda Garris Christian expresses six characteristics that apply to Family Systems Theory and to the environment provided by early childhood educators. Boundaries are a characteristic that may set limits as well as emphasizes togetherness. The article states that for some families the behavior of the child is the reflection on the whole family. Refereed to this behavior as being enmeshed. As a provider and early childhood educator, my experience was with a family that I considered enmeshed.

Ever since I was six years old, the year I was baptized, I have been on fire for the Lord. I attended a Christian school for eight years and have always been very involved at my church. My first experience outside of my “Christian bubble” was when I went to a public high school. For the first time in my life, I was out of my comfort zone. Being at a public school challenged my faith, strengthened my leadership skills, and forced me to branch out and meet people I would have never encountered otherwise. However, even though being at a public school helped strengthen my faith in ways I would have never guessed, I believe attending a Christian university—like Liberty—is the best choice to further my education. Going to college is new and exciting, but it can also be a demanding and intimidating experience. Being so far away from home, in a different environment,

in just the sophomore class due to stress, repugnance, or isolation. A copious amount of students at the school complain about stress and ridiculous rules. As a matter of fact, about 75 percent of students are disinterested with the school. The students believe that the school needs to progress in order to keep interest. Advancement in rules, a time for community every day, and the reduction in homework can significantly adjust a student’s perspective on school. Likewise, it illustrates how Christians should behave. To improve Northwest Christian School, one should make the lunchroom into a cafe before school, allow students to wear their school shirts any day of the week, and assign no homework on Wednesdays or weekends.

As I approach the end of my high school career, I start thinking if I am prepared and ready to face the next step in my life. College is known to test a man’s responsibility in order to prepare him to face the world alone. Jesuit High School has changed my life throughout the years I have attended the school. Jesuit has prepared me for college and taught me how to become a more responsible man. When I was thinking of where I should apply to high school, Jesuit was not my first option; however, coming from a family of Jesuit alumni, I knew it was the only school for me. Throughout my earlier years at Jesuit, I struggled and was miserable due to the overwhelming work and rules I was required to follow. However, I soon realized what the school was about in its mission in turning its students into men for others. I have found that Jesuit High School has transformed me educationally, has made me a more responsible man, and has taught me to be a man for others.

A Christian couple were barred from adopting their two foster children because they suggested that a child needs both mother and father for a stable upbringing, and were apprehensive of children being adopted by gay parents.

Holy Family Catholic School has helped me grow in my faith, knowledge, and service. I have participated in faith journeys, K4J skits, and sending Christmas presents to poor children around the world. Holy Family Catholic School is a great example and has helped me grow in my faith, knowledge, and service.

God has blessed me in allowing me to grow up in a Christian home, where my parents both have been proactive in my life by supporting and encouraging me to participate in unique activities that challenge me to grow as an individual and a Godly woman. Schooling was primarily at home, and by being homeschooled, I believe it taught me to have a persistent and disciplined work ethic. During my high school years my interpersonal relationships with my family lacked severely because of my choice to be alone. Today by God’s grace my relationship with my family has been restored. After high school, I participated in a gap year program at Camp Eagle in Texas. I struggled with interpersonal relationships as I chose to be apathetic and cynical towards other people. Moving forward from my experience I am summer staff at Sambica in Bellevue, Washington and growing with my interpersonal relationships. In the events that have occurred in my life up to this point I see that authority is placed for protection not pleasure, and should be obeyed regardless if you agree or disagree with someone in authority. Family discipline is important because if God disciplines us in love then it is necessary for growth and consequences when we sin. Family worship is important

The puzzled Protestant must first consider Catholic teaching on marriage. For one thing, marriage is a sacrament (one of seven, whereas Protestants, have only two – baptism and the Lord's Supper). As an efficacious sign of grace, a man, and a woman, after giving consent, mutually confer the sacrament upon one another in the presence of the Church. It is not the work of a priest or a church or a civil magistrate.The following words attributed to Jesus himself, marriage is indissoluble: "What God hath joined together let no man put asunder." The next difference concerns divorce. Protestants typically assume that if a court grants a divorce, then the marriage no longer exists. In Catholicism, civil divorce is a mostly meaningless distinction. Church tribunals can grant annulments, which degree that the marriage was

Throughout the course of organized religion both present and past, ritualistic acts of praise and worship have been practiced as a sign of both love and honor to God. Catholicism refers to these rituals as sacraments. As Christians and members of this faith, the first sacrament received by each member is Baptism. This sacrament has not only been practiced since the beginning of our faith, but has deep meaning and symbolic ties to the start of creation with Adam and Eve. I hope to prove through both illustration and published works how Baptism as a sacrament is both a sign and symbol of humanities desire to become closer to God by cleansing them of original sin through this ritual and rite of passage.

To be a sister of the Congregation of Dominican Sisters of Saint Rose of Lima, I am very grateful, blissful and joyful because God have mercy on me and have chosen me not by beautiful or intelligent, but by weakness. Encountering with Him in Religious Life, I do not only realize myself, but also the presence of God. All things that I have experienced in the consecrated life I would like to share.

Christian counselors work with other mental health professionals and collaborate with them to provide services to clients. Pastors are also exposed to church members who have serious substance abuse and mental health problems. Pastors provide assistance with substance abuse issues, mental health problems, and also provide assistance with marital and relationship issues. Many pastors refer church members to substance abuse or mental health professionals. Clergy members are willing to consult with and work together with professionals who work in the mental health field.

Throughout my entire life, it seemed as though everything was centered around my family’s collective core morals and an unwritten ethic code instilled in me as I grew up. My family’s principles remain a major part of my life, especially as I begin the transition to independence in the adult world. Considering my family has always been one of the most important things to me, I have always placed value on what I have learned from them and where we come from. My big, small-town family gave me a sense of what it means to help others, how we can accomplish this goal, and for what reasons. Being raised in a close-knit, Christian family with strong values will assist me in understanding how to be successful in terms of compassion and

I never thought to be a Christian leader. As a matter of fact, I am a person who did not know about God for 26 years. I was the center of my life, and there was no room for God to enter. Even when I was attending church service, I was trying not to be exposed to other church people. In other words, I was the kind of person who was afraid to walk into a life of faith. However, in the past three years, God has changed me in many ways, and showed me so many miraculous things. And, finally here I am. Being a Christian leader seems the most challenging job in the world. I am working as the chairman of a youth ministry, and walking on the path to be a church leader. When God called me to work for the

As a result of myths of white family life, there has been much confusion over the nature of black families. One of the myths of the nineteenth century entails the close- knit white family, which was parallel to that of the European family. Also, as a result of these myths, scholars often ignored the differences of American and European life. For example, women in frontier areas had a much stronger voice in family affairs than most scholars realized, simply because of the shortage of women. Therefore, women exercised a large percentage of authority in the family. In the cities where family was of little importance as an economic unit and the

Christian Tradition course exposed me to the Christian Tradition based on Biblical and church history. The course taught me the differences and similarities of Christian Tradition from other major world religions. I learned about the significance of God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit and the Trinity based on the teachings of the Bible. The course also briefly covered 2,000 years of church history but with emphasis on the impact of the Council of Nicea, Council of Chalcedon, and John and Charles Wesley on Christianity. The professor emphasized the importance of the reformation that sparked a revolution in the church.