Sing To The Convention Persuasive Speech

I am part of Grace Covenant Church, which is part of an organization called, Every Nation. Every Nation has churches in Asia, Africa, Europe, Oceania, and America. Some folkways that I practice are going to church every Sunday and talking about the message with my family afterwards. For me, church has never been about meeting with people who think like me, it was my time to spend with God. I always preferred one on one time with God, rather than group discussion. Our church holds yearly mission trips, and frequently holds

Milton Reid was New Hope Baptist Church’s first full time pastor. Before Rev. Reid came to New Hope’s the pastor only served on the second and fourth Sunday. Our communion was held on the second Sunday. Rev. Reid changed the communion to the first Sunday and rearranged the choir. He gave the Senior Choir the first and third Sunday and the Junior Choir the second and fourth Sunday. My mother made robes for the choir and even embroidered names in them to prevent any mix-ups. She also ordered sheet music for us from the Theodore Presser Company in Chicago, Illinois. At the time there were no available places in the area to purchase sheet music. These things were done by the “Grace of God” and at no expense to the church. We had rehearsal every Monday night. The memories are pleasant even though for many years during the winter months there was no automatic heat. I would go to the church ahead of time to make a fire. Most of the time my father would help me, and sometime I was on my own. I would make sure the fire would burn before going back home then return later for rehearsal if it was not warm when the choir members came in they would gather around the potbellied stove and I was up front on the piano with my coat on. By the time the church really got good and warm, it was time to

Discussed about Fellowship Hall. Melissa Bailey is going to make the worship atmosphere more welcoming by bringing some lights.

“Worship is the believer’s response of all that they are - mind, emotions, will, body - to what God is and says and does.” Warren Wiersbe

Rochelle Vann, I generally agree with your assessment of how many churches have “commercialized” their worship services in an attempt to fill the pews. I wonder how much of this is simply due to the fact that the church – in many places - has conformed to the culture rather than the church impacting the culture? Pettit (2008) says that “Since salvation is holistic, one possibly obvious implication of the spiritual formation process is that the believer's life should ultimately affect the culture” (p. 48).

On Remembrance Day 1998, St Timothy's hosted a community worship service for dozens of local legionnaires, police officers, boy scouts, and girl-guides. Tension filled the room as the elderly congregation scrambled to welcome such a large and diverse group of people. Obviously, the sudden presence of so many young guests was already beginning to disturb several of the parish's long-standing assumptions about Anglican worship; and thereby, unsettle the parish's equilibrium. For instance, the churchwardens had always flatly maintained, “Organ music best serves potential visitors”; however, the Remembrance Day service emphatically exposed their folly as well as an assortment of other related beliefs. Simply mingling with so many children and young

Growing up in a Southern Baptist affiliated church encouraged me to contrast my church norm by attending the Episcopal Trinity Church on Wall Street. The church I grew up in maintains a relatively contemporary approach utilizing contemporary music for worship with sermons that follow different series throughout the year. Alternatively, Trinity maintains a traditional approach utilizing hymns for worship and sermons following liturgies outlined in the Book of Common Prayer.

a prayer that lasted about five minutes. Then a hymnal that we all have to sing

Dr. Ouellette always asks how our trip was, so this time, we tell him about the convention. He seems surprised when we say we had over 4,500 people in attendance! Later, I chide myself because I didn't think to give him a jw.org card. I'll have to keep this in mind for next time.

I think the Christian church today is face with a direction issue we hear on the news that a lot has been going with Priests, Pastors Etc., in the other hand, now more people are focusing on Christ. Places that no one knew or heard about Jesus start to familiarize with the Gospel. I think, what the Church should be focusing more on is the connection with each other as Christians, as the old traditions. As followers, we’re not supposed to be individuals, we need to help each built the kingdom of Christ.

Having grown up in the church, I was taught from a young age about the miracles Jesus performed. When attending a Sunday service I have come to expect worship,

In the New Testament, all the focus is on the reality of the glory of Christ, not the shadow and copy of religious objects and forms. It is stunning how indifferent the New Testament is to such things: there is no authorization in the New Testament for worship buildings, or worship dress, or worship times, or worship music, or worship liturgy or worship size or thirty-five-minute sermons, or Advent poems or choirs or instruments or candles.... Almost every worship tradition we have is culturally shaped rather than Biblically commanded. The New Testament doesn't give us much specific instruction on how to do church, that is, the cultic gathering.

Comic Cons are conventions targeting a fan base of comic book, science fiction and fantasy literature enthusiasts. Cons, as they’re known by loyal fans, contain elements of a trade show and have grown in popularity since their inception in the early 1970s. In the beginning, comic book conventions and science fiction conventions, for the most part, remained independent of one another. In the last decade, however, they’ve fused to form international mega-conventions, in which crowds in the hundreds of thousands flock to a single event. What started out as a collector’s paradise, drawing masses looking to buy, sell and trade their most prized possessions with like-minded individuals, Cons have turned into trendy, pop-culture meccas and redefined how society looks at nerds.

To experience a new religion is eye opening to me and was very interesting to visit and collaborate with people who attended the service as part of their lifestyle. First of all, I am Native American and I see that my Navajo traditions and worshiping services has a unique and precise way of worshiping. Considering I was raised as a Southern Baptist throughout my childhood of going to Bible camp and youth camps which has gotten me to see that it was the only right way of worshiping and seeing other religions idolizing other physical pagans which I saw this as wrong. However, this course was a way to be openminded about other cultures besides my own christian background. As this course concludes, I fine myself seeing the core roots set back in centuries of all religion of having similar foundations in all aspects of their history.

Is there some value in the pray meeting? People suggest this idea because of their absence of many these meetings. Hey! Many people sing "I like to be in your home celebrating with thy people...” and even jumping and dance in the "spirit" singing this contemporary, anthem. This is why I say that people lie, because when they are invited to the pray meeting they like to sing "I like to be in my house...". Seem to say that that, does not have any value that these meetings belongs to the "past" generations. But God has other plans...