The Stereotyping In The Gospel Of Jesus

One of the greatest stigmas held towards Christians is that they are very judgemental. Many people believe that Christians are too quick to judge someone and never really bother to figure out what those people actually think and why they think a certain way on something. Sadly, this stigma that is linked to Christians will always be a part of the word Christian. So why is it that when people hear the word Christian, they automatically think “judgemental”? There are many reasons one of them being that while many Christians are more concerned about looking good in front of other Christians and non Christians. Through my personal experience of being raised in a Christian home and being required to attend church, it is very easy for me to agree

Galindo analyzes that the fundamental “mission” of a congregation is the same as any other congregation that exists in any part of the world. He argues that though every congregation has a mission and a vision, at the same time, it shares a basic common mission. (43) This reminds me of my home church The First Church of Evanston and my Field Site, The Evanston Vineyard Church. Both churches have a common mission of welcoming people to the church, irrespective of their ethnic, cultural, racial, and economic and, gender backgrounds. The mission is to help people be received in the house of God with due and deserved Christian love so that they feel loved and welcomed. Both these churches encourage church attendees to attend the service and receive the Eucharist.

This pamphlet provides an inaccurate depiction of Christianity when compared to the New Testament because, by omitting the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, it characterizes Christianity as the tool to prevent eternal hell rather than exemplify God’s love for humans. This mischaracterization evident through the consequences of Jesus’ Resurrection had on society’s human nature to sin. According to Paul, Jesus’s resurrection shows that, as human sin was crucified with Jesus through the connection of Baptism, humans are now able to follow a path of righteousness because He overcame death (Romans 6:10-13). The resurrection is important to highlight, because it is the reason why humans are able to seek salvation in the first place. Without recognizing

Morality should be a role that the church should be an example of and responsible for the society. Consequently, God has a great concerned for people; yet stereotype that’s in Christians is a great concerned with limiting human’s true happiness. To exemplify, or to show reliable morality that Christianity can thoroughly lead to the ultimate form of happiness, and that is through salvation. “For God did not send His Son into the world to be its judge, but to be its savior” (John 3:17,

There are many types of churches with different organizations and denominations. With this diversity brings many opinions and beliefs that separate people and churches. I saw segregation and separation in a church I attended growing up. While attending this church we had many rules and regulation that needed to be followed, similar to the oral Torah. One example, the Pastor taught that we were not allowed to have friends or hang out with other people who did not have the same beliefs as us. However, as I grew in understanding, I realized this separated us from sharing God to others who needed Him. This separation of people in that church contradicts what Kraybill discusses Jesus’ practice was to help and fellowship with the unclean and not

When John was born he said that he had Jesus in him. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.( John 1:1-3)

FUMCLV openness and commitment to end racial division will help the church to identify and support the key racial justice issues particularly troubled in the community in recent years. They may simultaneously feel an urgency to respond and be somewhat overwhelmed. Yet, they must be proactive in seeking to create an encounter where diverse people can focus on their relationship and share their perceptions, feelings, and experiences with one another, with the goal of creating new perceptions and a new shared

The Gentile Christians were well aware of the gospel story, and Luke intended “to assure his readers of the certainty of what they had been taught” (ESV 1936). Also, the gospel was written in a way that non-Christians could receive it and understand the good news story, making it a prime tool for evangelism. Other reasons for writing include “delineating the relationship between Christianity and Judaism”, proving “that Christianity was no threat to the political authority of the Empire”, as well as to clarify and give solutions to problems regarding the end times or the so called second coming (Allen 9-11).

The preaching context is an urban congregation, comprising of more than 500 active congregants. The congregation has great understanding of how they are called to be One as the Body of Christ. This is because their congregation comprises people of diverse identities. They have single parents attending the church as well as children without their parents. They are invested in the Black Lives Matter as well as the ESL program, which speaks to how attentive they are about the ethnicities worshipping with them. It is very likely that the LGBTQ community is pushed into margins and they need to pay attention to how they

26. The method of Chronology is simply a means of helping us arrange the events of Christ's life and ministry in some semblance of order for our own ease in understanding. For example, “four months, then comes the harvest” (John 4:35), which He made in Samaria, was a chronological indicator. That's to say, several clues or chronological indicators exist which help us data the event. By chronological indicator we mean a word or combination of words or thoughts that refers to a specific happening and places an event in a recoginzed time frame. According to chronological indicator, we may connect the human experience and feeling about the season as the time of Jesus' baptism and the season of temptation that followed immediately in the wilderness

Jesus told His disciples in Matthew 24:14 KJV that the end would not come until "the gospel of the kingdom shall be preached into all the world for a witness unto all nations and then shall the end come." Today, about 95% of the world has heard the gospel message of Jesus Christ and the coming Kingdom of God, largely due to the technology of radio, satellite, internet, and good old-fashioned footwork. The gospel message has been distributed in hundreds of different languages. God’s kingdom will become a reality! The apostle John saw all of the forces within the seven seals that will be unleashed to produce the beginning of the Great Tribulation. We are standing on the threshold of a pivotal moment. The Rapture of the church will be just

Christianity provides an opportunity of importance that answer to this dilemma. The learnings of the gospel heavily emphasize how all people are a part of the same family and we all are children of God. Christians are in all different shaped, sizes, and all races across the nation meaning

Christians in today’s society more, and more are coming to churches that they are taken where they are no matter how they look. A lot of our older generation has been apart of a culture that you need to

Religion was a controversial topic during the era Jesus had came down from heaven and proclaimed that he was the messiah and king of the people, who wanted to teach his people the way to salvation. Jesus’s teachings were transcribed into 4 different gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, in the bible that was the basis for answering the question, “Who is Jesus?” all underlining major themes the believers were to intertwine into their daily lives to not only bring peace to oneself but to neighbors around them. When looking at sections within the gospels such as walking on water and feeding the multitudes of followers, the reader can see the theme depth of who Jesus was. Starting with the gospel of Matthew, the theme that was emphasized was to prove that Jesus was the messiah or the anointed one, meaning savior or leader. Within Matthew 14:13 the reader can view how Jesus carried out the role of being a savior by saving the followers that were in dire need of his grace, “When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them and healed the sick.” And in 14:30 when his disciples more specifically Peter asked to come onto the water only to be saved by Jesus himself, “…Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came to Jesus. But when he saw the wind, he was afraid and beginning to sink, cried out, “Lord, save me! Immediately Jesus reached and caught him.”

The statement that a lot of non-Christians claim is, the Gospel writers are bias. This is a topic that gets asked quite often. I have personally heard this statement from a co-worker, but did not know how to answer my co-worker because I was new to Christianity, and was still learning myself. The way I remember the question was, “The Bible is written by men, and cannot be trust because they had their own selfish agenda.” This is a valid question, and a topic worth knowing the answer too. The article that I am using for this paper is. “Critique of New Testament Reliability and ‘Bias’ in NT Development.” By James Still.