Family Value, And Moral Values In The Church

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

God calls us to serve and to do everything with love (1 Peter 4:10, 1 Corinthians 16:14). As a Student Affairs (SA) professional, my main goal is to help students discover their calling and equip them to better serve the world while integrating their faith. Smith (2004), states why it is important to serve as a mentor during a critical adult faith development stage. In The Council for the Advancement of Standards and Higher Education (CAS), CAS has incorporated faith, spirituality and religion into the standards and competencies that they advocate for individuals working as educators in the student affairs field ( Smith, 2004). In the CAS masters-level graduate program for student affairs standards (2004) the authors spoke to the essential need to incorporate spirituality.

The lessons I’ve received from transitioning through the church as a child, youth, and adult member have taught me a number of lessons; patience, reverence, and empathy are all traits I’ve strengthened, and they have undoubtably helped me through my high school career. Taught how to ask thoughtful questions, I’m unashamed of my curiosity. Our faith is not always one of direct answers— even our most devoted

Their beliefs and understandings of faith are being challenged and questioned in order to strengthen their understanding. Rather than having the adults in their life tell them what to believe, they are now responsible for forming opinions about everything in their lives. For this reason, it is vital that students stay connected to God during their college years. If they are not firmly grounded in truth, the controversial ideology that college courses may bring will easily sway them. If a spiritual foundation is not there, a student will face a “spiritual struggle: an experience with which many students are familiar, particularly those who concern themselves with deep reflection on faith, purpose, and life

Abstract: The Moralistic Therapeutic Deism is a religion invisibly growing amongst U.S. teenagers. It is an interfaith religion which is has been developed on a book by Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist Denton called Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers. The article on “Moralistic Therapeutic Deism” as U.S. Teenagers ' Actual, Tacit, De Facto Religious Faith ...

Dean has written a disturbing yet thought-provoking book on the current religious state of America’s teenagers. The background research for this book was the National Study of Youth and Religion (NSYR). This was one of the largest studies ever of the religious views of teenagers. Dean says more American teenagers are embracing what she calls “moralistic therapeutic deism.” In other words, it’s a watered-down faith that depicts God as a “divine therapist” whose primary objective is to boost people’s self-esteem.

Colorado Christian University Essay Kim Slickmeyer A pivotal experience that I had in my walk with Jesus occurred during “The Walk to Emmaus” in September 2012. I attended the weekend retreat at Livingston First Church in Livingston, Tennessee during the women’s Walk #82 and was assigned the table of Ruth. The fellowship and spiritual experience was beyond what I had expected. The Lord revealed to me during that weekend that He was calling me to teach His Word to women. During the next few months I began leading and attending various Bible studies. I was amazed how much I was learning and the wisdom that God was revealing to me. As with everything in life, there were many who wanted to keep me down knowing I was excited and determined. Some

Over the span of four months, each week I would regularly meet with a former colleague of mine by the name of Terrion Austin. Terrion recently moved from Nebraska to Tennessee, due to his job opening that presented itself that would allow for him to be closer to both him and his wife’s family. Terrion reached out to me over the summer, due to the fact that he was extremely unsure in his faith. He felt that whenever he read the bible he was never felt satisfied once done reading. This frustrated him tremendously. In addition to his frustration, Terrion was often confronted by members from his job that would frequently ask him questions that he did not feel he could answer. Moreover, his inability to answer did not come from a lack of knowing the bible; however, it was quite the opposite. Terrion, like most young Christian, grew up

Paul Tillich’s philosophy reminds us that her faith development is at a critical point; if her faith is not nurtured in an appropriate way by people she looks up to and trusts, she likely will take a path that ignores her faith and it will slowly be pushed to the outside as other issues consume her time and attention. “This is often the time that someone will leave their religious community if the answers to the questions they are asking are not to their liking.” But if she has mentors that carefully, lovingly, and appropriately work with her she can find the balance of developing her faith at the same time working through the countless issues that young people her age face today.

Donahue, M. J. & Benson, P. L. (1995). “Religion and the Well-being of Adolescents” in

Educators need to understand the impact of religion on the lives of their students. According to Gallup poll data, nearly 95% of teens believe in God and 86% believe that Jesus Christ is either God or the Son of God (Gallup & Lindsay, 1999 as cited in Ream, 2003). These and other similar statistics demonstrate the importance of considering religion when dealing with young people. Ream

During elementary years, Quinton’s mother underwent an operation for what he vaguely recalled was a thyroid disease. He remembered praying at a church with his father for a very long time. The emergence of faith narrative at this point suggested an intuitive-projective stage according to faith development as proposed by Fowler (1995. Quinton’s illustration demonstrated an initial awareness of proximity seeking to God in times of distress through prayer as modelled by his father. According to Fowler (1995), at this stage the child observes and imitates the practice of the adults’ behaviour in an intuitive manner while developing the ability to align value and logic behind their religious practice (Fowler, 1995; Roehlkepartain et al, 2006).

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

Analyzing sexual and gender issues within the realm of theological ethics is a topic some shy away from, others avoid entirely. Dr. Todd Salzman meets the challenge head on. He is a professor in the Theology department at Creighton University and I have the honor of being enrolled in his course, THL 272: Theological Ethics – Sexual and Gender Issues this semester. Early on I sensed that Dr. Salzman has a kindness that makes him approachable. Lectures are rarely only lectures, with much of the time dedicated to discussion within the class. Dr. Salzman treats each student fairly and listens to their commentary and opinions with respect. While meeting with Dr. Salzman for this interview, I quickly realized he had the same demeanor outside of

The literature provides two major areas in which religion impacts on youth at individual level. By citing Benson (2003), Donelson (1999), King & Boyatzis (2004) King and Furrow (2008) argue that religion in youth lives serves two major purposes, one is promotion of positive moral development and second is protection against risky conduct of activities. Similarly religious associations of youth often act as a protective measure against wrong behavior and wrong conduct of sex or premarital sex, it promotes good healthy practices and supports youth in coping up stressed situations (Hopkins, 2007), (Cusack, 2011). These arguments show that youth associate religion as it helps them to judge what is right and wrong in life and to maintain a respectful character which is acceptable to society. However these