Christian Perspective On Expectancy Violations Theory

It is both an unarguable and undesirable fact that we live in a society completely remote from our fellow man. There is no longer a sense of community between friends and neighbors — no brotherhood in the presence of coworkers in the commercial workplace. Even the higher, spiritual presence that had once bound together all things in worship and praise has faltered in the face of this profound apathy. It is not that mankind has lost its ability to communicate — modern technology provides us with the ability to speak to one another over tremendous lengths and sustain friendships in staggering amounts. The reason for this chasm of communal indifference stems from man's lost desire to understand one another, as well as the divine presence around

The authors presented the Christian responsibility for witnessing along with the lost individual’s need to hear the message. The point was well articulated that Christians should live in obedience to God’s Word, to receive strength and understanding through the Holy Spirit.

There are more than 7,000,000,000 people in world that make it impossible for someone to go their entire life without colliding with another human. Each person has their own unique way of interacting with others that is dependent on their worldview and fears. In the book, When Worlds Collide, authors Dan and Mike Blackaby talk about what it means for a Christian to stand up to the world’s philosophies without giving up in their faith. They describe people and their faith in three different ways: “Cave-Ins,” and “Cave Dwellers,” which are negative, and “Colliders,” which are positive. There are many biblical examples that correspond to each of these types of people. Adam and Eve, Moses, and Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego are clear examples from the Bible of what it means to be each person and prove that being a collider is better than being a cave-in or cave dweller.

This paper is a review of the book, Reviving Evangelical Ethics: The Promises and Pitfalls of Classic Models of Morality by Wyndy Corbin Reuschling. This book addresses the misconceptions of Christian ethics and why it needs to be revived. Reuschling writes as a Christian social ethicist who understand the language, the communities, the commitments, and the moral and spiritual practices valued in evangelicalism.

“That man should walk upright in the land where they were born . . . what was there evil in it? . . . such fear could not be cast out, but by love.” (Chapter 25)

"Oh, righteous one, in whom we are able to place great confidence; the people are led astray after Jesus, the crucified one. So declare to us, what is this way,

But we cannot have this confidence if we feel condemned. If we are condemned, we can't have faith. And the battle cry of the New Testament gospel is, "The just shall live by faith."

Walking this journey this week has driven me back to probably one of the best known passages of scripture in

“The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on

Pastor Pack thanks for coming and allowing me to help answer your concerns. Personally I agree that psychology can be integrated with Christianity. I don’t agree with Adams’ quote because we all live in a falling world and Jesus came to show us the way in how to live by giving us guidelines in the Bible. Integration is important with psychology because it is necessary to explain aspects of human beings that we can’t obtain from the Bible. Entwistle states “ Integration of psychology and Christianity is a multifaceted attempt to discern the underlying truths about the nature and functioning of human beings from the unique vantage points of psychology” (Entwistle, 2010, p. 218). There are many different ways to look at integration but the applied

William Fay lays out the structure of how a Christian can adequately and courageously share their confidence in "Share Jesus Without Fear." The book sets up extremely well as Fay 's techniques are pragmatic and conversational. The inquiries and Scriptures that he directs the peruser through are not hard to recall or comprehend, and are composed with the goal that anybody will feel more great in sharing their confidence – from the new devotee, to the tepid Christian, to the person who essentially needs a push or needs direction in what to say or how to say it. The general substance of the book is not domineering which makes for a moderately simple read, while testing the peruser to make that additional push to be evangelistic. Christ himself called his devotees to be an evangelistic people (Matt. 28:19-20, Acts 1:8).

The Destiny of the Unevangelized Debate has been a concern for Christians throughout the years. There have been questions to arise as to what actually happens to those who have never heard the Gospel. According to Body and Eddy, “the issue of the destiny of the unevangelized forces Christians to wrestle with the seeming tension between the universality of God’s love and the particularity of the path to salvation or one’s personal relationship with Christ.” Exclusivism, inclusivism, and pluralism are three ways that theologians address the issue of the destiny of the unevangelized. The text takes on these three ways through four views which are the Restrictivist View, Universal Opportunity View, Postmorten Evangelism View, and Inclusivist View.

Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he. Proverbs 29:18 (KJV)

WOOSTER — In the New Testament book Acts, two apostles of Jesus put forth a question to religious leaders of the day, “Which is right in God’s eyes: to listen to you, or to him? You be the judges!”

"Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?"