Family Equipping Religion

Pipes and Lee, in Family to Family: Leaving a Lasting Legacy seeks to provide parents with a framework for passing a lasting Christian legacy to their children. Of course, they do so with a decidedly conservative underpinning one would expect from Southern Baptist ministers and they make no excuses for doing so. Pipes and Lee lay out a plan in six chapters where parents can pass on their faith to their children and reverse the trend of them leaving the church upon turning 18. Beginning with Healthy Families in Chapter One and concluding with sharing the message in Chapter Six, Pipes and Lee provide and outline filled with helpful tips and ideas on how families can grow closer

Although I truly enjoyed reading Family to Family by authors Pipes and Lee, I find that this book was really focused on those parents who already know and have a relationship with Jesus Christ and want or need to build a better Christ centered family life. In reading this book I feel that today, there are so many non-believers who could benefit from the teaching principles in this book. We are all so busy these days. We are like ships passing in the wind, always coming and going. We as parents have to be willing to stop and stand for something within our families. Otherwise what are we really passing on to our children and their children? We must be mission driven within our families just as we are in the business world. The authors Pipes and Lee do a great job in pointing this fact out. I would have liked to see more information to help the reader the parent and future parents to understand the why this is important. The authors might have used more relevant or popular facts pertaining to society

Daniel says that she has seen many who are involved in teaching and providing care through the church go on to be teachers, counselors, and administrators for various youth programs. Mrs. Daniel says, “the church opens doors for people to get involved with kids and shows them the impact that one person can make in a child’s life.” She became interested in working with children in this very way. Mrs. Daniel began to volunteer at her church, which later led to a part-time job. While working part-time, she continued her education and gained more experience that eventually led her to become the Director of Children’s Ministry. In order to prepare for entering this field, Mrs. Daniel suggest that, while it is not required, a person should have a college degree that prepares them for working with families and children and that they stay up to date on trends and issues in the church as well as in the community. She also says that if one plans to work in a church environment, they should have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Mrs. Daniel describes working in this kind of environment as a “calling.” She does not think that this is a field for everyone, “it takes a special kind of person to put the needs of children and the community in front of their own” says Mrs.

One organization that is becoming increasingly popular, is the new youth church. These churches are made up primarily of young adults; those that attend gain a sense of belonging by their family-like structures and “cell groups”. They also dabble with the postmodern and nontraditional ways of worship, to attract outsiders, and they have a strong emphasis on missionary work.

The purpose of this project is to demonstrate how the Sacramental Life or Incarnational Tradition help me focus on my life as a harmonious unit and to illustrate how my life is impacted by my view of worship. In addition, I will give a theological analysis on how focusing on life as a harmonious unit is essential to the myself, the individuals I administer spiritual counseling to and my ministry constituents.

David Mains wrote this book to explain his belief that the destructive family patterns are one of the issues relating to the relational dysfunctions of the Church body. There are many types of negative behavioral patterns so he has highlighted eight that he will explain. His introduction uses a personal lecture event that changed his view of dysfunctional families and their relationship to the Church. In that hour, the speaker laid out fifteen traits of dysfunctional families. I quote Mains, “Back at the office I set my work aside and again went through the list of unhealthy family traits. Then it dawned on me that the church family can often be marked by the same dysfunctions.” (p. 11) It is David Mains desire that the exposing of these traits

In the article, Nine Secrets Your Pastor’s Wife Wishes You Knew (Stolaas, 2014), loneliness, and loss of identity, were identified as one of the major contributors to personal and marital strife for the wife of a pastor (Stolaas, 2014). If loneliness and identity crisis were not bad enough, there is also the fact that the pastor’s wife may possess an unhealthy fear of messing things up for her husband (Stolaas, 2014). Lastly, and probably the most detrimental effect to the personal identity of the pastor’s wife, is that she is held to a set of higher standards by church parishioners and is no longer able to be herself (Stolaas, 2014). Considering all these worries, it becomes easy to appreciate how the pastor’s wife could easily crack and lash out against herself, her husband, and his ministry. Even to the point of marriage dissolution.

Growing up in a secular Jewish family religion was never really important to me. We seldom attended synagogue, except in the rare case of a cousin or friends’ Bar Mitzvah or Bat Mitzvah. I, myself and my sister failed to even have our coming of age ceremonies; We were too lazy. My family and I have failed by all accounts to be good practicing Jews. My sister and I have failed to become Jewish adults, and in my childhood Jewish day school Anshe Emet in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood, I was nothing more than a no good Mashugana, with a rebellious streak.

It’s no secret that the number of weekly Churchgoers has taken a serious hit, beginning in the late 1980’s and continuing to the current date. This is a global occurrence, although the US percentage has reached a point that some mainstream Churches’ are currently looking into alternative service techniques to fulfill the needs of its’ congregation, from web based services to video streaming. The current culture has caused most Churches to make a seismic shift in how they will do ministry in the future and it is due to a variety of reasons, but they all are connected with a person's’ time to commit to attending.

The family is fading. Religion is falling. Faith is failing. The first right in the First Amendment, the right to the free practice of religion, is being viciously attacked by the citizens of America. The traditional family—an ideal so simple and fundamental that, twenty years ago, any alteration to it would be unfathomable—is now being challenged. Times are changing; society is changing. Among others, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland addresses this change in his speech, “Faith, Family, and Religious Freedom.” In this lecture given at Chapman University in 2015, he focuses on that trend in today’s society: faith, family, and religious freedom, or, more accurately, the decline in it. Traditional family values and religion have degraded at an astonishing rate, he claims; the fact that he devoted an entire speech to the topic proves the severity of said trend. Elder Holland builds common ground, quotes credible sources, and shows irrefutable facts and statistics to effectively convince his religious listeners that action must be taken to prevent the disappearing freedoms of faith, family, and religion, else disastrous consequences take place.

In the book Effective Biblical Counseling, Crabb suggests that the church, when operating biblically, offers all the necessary resources to individuals that are appropriate for security and significance (Crabb, 2013). In this, the body of Christ found within the local church should assume responsibility for the care of those members within the body (Crabb, 2013). Furthermore, Crabb states that all members of the body of Christ should be involved in some form of counseling those within the church (Crabb, 2013).

For years, arguments of personal beliefs held ground in speech debates, including presidential elections, also when people interact in personal conversation. Family and religion are the building blocks that drive our lives to be better. I have seen people from all walks of life argue or not listen in the concern of others affairs regarding these topics. From the beginning of our education we were taught to have certain guidelines and morals from our parents. Rote memorization of learning, from which repeated speech or exercise became second nature, was how our parent’s knowledge subconsciously transferred down to us. Such is true when regarding one’s beliefs. My idea of beliefs transitioned to a new perspective during my time in elementary

Good relationships must be developed between ministers and the congregation (Trull & Carter, 2004, p. 90). This dynamic has to take place in order for trust to be established. When trust is built through relationship building from visiting the sick, performing funerals, marrying members, then people tend to feel comfortable confiding in their

He states, “While there is nothing wrong with this approach I believe that it is important that more interaction take place outside of the four walls of the church building.” In today’s generation families are looking for others they can do life with. Reinolds states, “it is essential for the church to encourage leaders to take people into their homes and spend time with them on a regular basis.” He goes on to state an honest fact; “We can learn more about people in a two hour period outside of the church than a whole year of

In this paper, the student-writer will discuss the methods that are taught in In Effective biblical counseling: A model for helping caring Christians become capable counselors by Crabb (1977). The student-writer will also use what is taught in this book with the skills that are expressed in Creating a Healthier Church; Family Systems Theory, Leadership, and congregational life by Richardson (1996) and Blessed Connections: Relationships that sustain vital ministry, by Schwanz (2008). The student-writer will compare and contrast the skills that are mentioned in these books to establish a well maintained way in which to ministry to clients, and meet their needs as a counselor.