Male Congregant Case

This student believe every congregate deserves quality care from its ministerial staff. The student-counselor’s home church is small in membership and does not have many of the tools that are highlighted within this study. As an associate minister, the student intentions are to learn as much as possible in order to be of assistance to his pastor as well as preparation for if he is called to pastor. The student understands he should plan to engage the background check process at least one semester before PACO 699 is needed.

This further invites a discourse of church practices in the U.S like attending a church regularly and being part of a small group or the Bible Study at a church, in order, for

I serve as a pastoral intern at the Vineyard Christian Church of Evanston. This marks my second year of internship at this church. I have thoroughly enjoyed the experience of becoming familiar with the culture of a non-denominational setting of the church. The Evanston Vineyard comprises of 57 nations of the world. The church is not only unique because of this particular diversity (for example, there is a Spanish-speaking congregation that convenes every Sunday in the La Viña auditorium, one of multiple auditoria in this church) but also because of its hospitable and welcoming environment. This church context serves as the backdrop for the events and discussions that comprise the remainder of this paper.

The traditional church does not wavier from their primary time of gathering on Sunday morning. This one to two hour service or event is geared toward paying for physical properties and the pastor’s salary. The traditional church tends to be program and event driven with the pastor and the deacons running the show. The membership is a revolving door, meaning their more members on the roster then attendees. As a child growing up in the traditional church was boring and there was no room for growth in the sense of learning new

Client’s religious beliefs kept him from breaking “big rules”, but not small ones. Adam was not very religious and would call himself a Christian, states he did not act like one according to his current view of what being a Christian means. When Adam was young he would pray with his mother at night before bed, but his family did not talk about God together. In middle school, he would pretend to be sick in order to skip church on Sundays, but would go on Wednesday nights to church to hang out with friends. During high school Adam started going to church more frequently to hang out and fit in with friends from Chickfila.

There is an unethical epidemic called sexual misconduct, which has taken over many organizations. For years certain sexual behaviors were not fully understood; therefore, victims were left with no other recourse, but to deal with the emotional and physical distress associated with sexual misconduct. The church has always been viewed as a place of safety, refuge, healing, and strength for each individual and family within its membership. However, many church members or leaders never understood the dynamics of misconduct within the congregation.

The authors focus on the continuous practice of “reflective discernment,” to help church leaders learn what is the idea required for a church to depend on God. (39) One of the authors named Mark mentions an instance when he as a university chaplain intern, was invited by an African American student and experienced a group prayer. Because Mark was a Scotch-Irish, his initial experience of prayer in this group of students made no sense to him. Later he realized that it was the use of language that had left a different impression on Mark. Also, he felt that his own theology in comparison to one of the students named Keith who invited him was not the same. (40)The author Mark mentions that after his reflective discernment, Keith’s theology started making sense to him and differences that seemed differences to him in theology, began changing. This instance, reminds me when I first visited the Evanston Vineyard, a non-denominational church, which is the same church where I am serving as a Pastoral Intern. The first time I attended a service here, I noticed an African American woman responding in words to the pastor’s sermon. At first, I felt very annoyed, after

An examination of data from the 1980s and 1990s from the General Social Survey; concluding that at the end of the twentieth century American religion reflected major social-economic differences between denominations; arguing those distinctions were modeled by if necessary, theology, liturgy style, and race; groups with a hierarchical church organization and their styles of worship are formal then they tend to rank higher in the socio-economic groups and the groups they have the emotional styles of worship, theologically conservative and sectarianism, with congregational polity, and more informal services had the propensity to rank lower on the socio-economic scale. Points out that it has been noted that there is a connection in the styles of

It’s a warm Sunday morning coast to coast, as little boys and girls rush to the church that sits patiently waiting for them to arrive. Their parents follow behind, walking just fast enough to keep up, but not so fast that they too look like children. The elderly seem to have already taken their seats, as they like to arrive early in order to obtain their reserved spot only made so according to them. Whether the congregation gathers in a barn or a cathedral, you will always find the same three types of churchgoers: the hypocrite, the seeker, and the day dreamer.

Members of traditional churches think missional communities sound a lot like a church: Christians gather on a weekly basis to study the Bible and share a meal and pray. Members of missional communities feel like their gatherings bear little or no resemblance to churches. The missional community has no nonprofit status, no elected officers, no Voters’

Our churches have too many activities; they are too busy to do the things that really matter.

The church that my team and I attended was a great cultural experience. The people here are very welcoming and willing to put their guest first. When we first arrived, an older gentleman escorted us to the front from and told members in those seats to move. Even though we created quite the scene, all we could do was laugh. There was not much we could do.

For my contemporary worship assignment this week, I attended Victory World Church at the Norcross, Georgia location. Their Saturday at 6:00pm service was a Godsend for me as I was required to also visit a selected church for my Community Engagement class this weekend. As always, God worked everything out and I was able to complete both assignments. This reconfirmed for me the benefits of sharing your concerns with others as a classmate recommended the Saturday night service at her church; thereby solving my dilemma.

Often many argue that you must be a part congregation to be a part of The Church. Although being a part of a church is important, it is not necessary to be a part of the body. I believe that those who do not have a church congregation to be a part of have a hindered spiritual walk. Being a part of a church calls for accountability, lessons, and ministry, which has been vital in my own personal

Reflecting upon the readings of Torrance’s Worship, Community, and the Triune God of Grace and White’s Introduction to Christian Worship will deeply shape how I look at worship in the churches I now order worship for the congregations. I used one of the churches in which I serve to do the Order of Worship assignment. It is a blue collar, small membership church located in a rural, retirement/ vacation area of North Carolina, Lake Gaston. It is also predominately Caucasian. Torrance’s focus is on trinitarian worship, participating in Christ’s communion with God, the Father and Christ’s life, death, and resurrection through the power of the Holy Spirit. And White’s focus is to look at how the forms used in worship give worship its meaning. These forms include but are not exclusive of, time, space, music and art. There are implications for both focuses in the order of worship for the congregation used for my order of worship.