What Makes A Church?

“On a Christian Mission to the Top” by Laurie Goodstein and David Kirkpatrick deals with the controversial topic of religion, primarily the rise of evangelicals to the top of the social classes and their influence. The essay opens with a description of the differing religious groups in Brown University, originally a Protestant Christian school. After evangelicals surpassed other denominations of Christianity, the societal and political perspectives of America shifted to support Evangelism views. Goodstein and Kirkpatrick examine the attempt to sway colleges to evangelist perspectives. While I wholeheartedly encourage the freedom of religion, I do not support this attempt at mass conversion or the refusal of accepting of other cultures.

American churches’ overemphasized on individualism, inadequate social theory and rejecting ecclesiology. According to Goen, it failed to provide a proper leadership in the issue of slavery, as a result, it forced the nation to turn to politics in order to confront this slavery issue, which in fact also led to war.1

My essay is about Televangelist preachers who live in multimillion dollar houses and ride in multimillion dollar jets paid for by the donations and tithes of their church members. I don’t know if my audience, which is my teacher, will agree or disagree with my point of view but I hope my opinion is respected. I believe Televangelists are false preachers who prey on ignorant church members to exploit them to donate large sums of money.

It involves giving everyone a fair treatment, regardless of who you are. When we see people in need, we help them as much as we can to the best of our abilities. Regardless of our class, wealthy and quite possibly the poor, we are responsible to provide our money and power to help others and treat them with the same respect we expect to be treated. However, our modern day world is not a perfect world. There are more than just a small general population that are committing social injustice against others. States, countries, and nation. We are still committing all the same sins that the people of Israel were committing. We continue to have people in our imperfect world suffering from poverty and injustice. We continue to have superficial worship with other false “Gods”, as well as our false actions of pretending to look as if we are fulfilling God’s demand, just enough to please Him. As long as social injustice exist and the people continue to turn away from God, Amos prophetic messages will continue to be

Church, a six letter word that can have several different meanings depending on who you ask: believers, nonbelievers, people who just don’t care about religion…etc. But to me, if I made a definition for the word church is would be this: a physical place where God created in his plan that us followers created on earth a building where we gather and worship Him. While in the dictionary, the meaning of church is short, sweet and to the point, it is “a building used for Christian worship.” In the Bible, the word church is defined as “the body of Christ (Eph. 1:22-23; Col. 1:18, 24; 1 Cor. 12:12-13, 27-28; Rom. 12:5)” (Perks 23). So in a sense, the main idea of the definition of a church is a place where believers go to worship God. On the other

In the biblical discourse found in the first verses of John 6 (King James Version), Jesus ministers and teaches throngs of people. After teaching, He performed a miracle so that the crowd. After all had eaten Jesus advised his disciples with these words, “When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost (Bible Hub).” It was Jesus’ desire that the fragments of the meal be collected and not wasted. Jesus wants the same for his children in all areas of life, especially in the area of ethics. He wants nothing squandered or lost, but that the pieces of life be gathered and held together revealing a picture of Jesus holding the world in His hands. This week’s assignment is to write a review of the ideas discussed and inferences drawn by the author in Chapters 1 and 2 (pages 1 - 34) of the assigned textbook, “The Peaceable Kingdom” by Stanley Hauerwas, to include opinions about the issues that seem applicable to church, ministry, and society today.

Examines 20 essays for the scholarship and makes clear that the Pentecostal Luminaries a flesh and blood variety and their trajectories both illumined and ordered the world around them. Shows that together they defined the identity of the movement. I have a case that the essays commissioned in the scholarship focus on important but comparatively and studied individuals, or on individuals who have not received an examination in the context of Pentecostal cultural history. Asserts that the choices were symptomatic, not exhaustive. critiques that to qualifications about the terrain ahead are needed; first, the subjects are leaders and not clergy; most leaders were clergy, And many were leaders; the overlap was never exact, especially for women.

The general purpose of authority is to promote order in human society."(126) Trull and Carter state power measure a person's potential to get others to do what he or she wants them to do, avoiding forced to do a task. (95) Moreover, in ministry Trull and Carter points out, the appropriate authority should be used to build up the church, to strengthen and teach people, and to fulfill the ministry to which God has called the minister. (94) Ministers having power and authority in the church does not mean dictatorship. The congregants have a voice.

All Pentecostals denominations were pretty well all established. After the war Pentecostals started branching off, African American went northeast and to the Great Lakes while white people headed south and a mixture of black and whites went to the West Coast. Pentecostals no longer had to go to people they came to them and they have outgrown their buildings, tents etc. Evangelist said their work was deliverance, healing from sin, sickness as well as

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as the Mormon Church is properly known, was founded in 1830 by Joseph Smith, Jr. Mormons assert that Jesus Christ appeared to Joseph Smith in 1820 with the express purpose of restoring His Church and gospel in its purity and fullness to the earth. The Mormon Church uses two sources as its primary authorities: the Book of Mormon and the Bible. The doctrine and covenants in the Pearl of Great Price are also viewed as divine authority. According to their beliefs the Book of Mormon came to rectify all the errors in the Bible. Plural marriage became the faith 's most sensational characteristic during the 19th century, but vigorous opposition by the United States Congress threatened the church 's existence as a legal institution. In his 1890 Manifesto, church president Wilford Woodruff announced the official end of plural marriage, though the practice continued unofficially until the early 20th century. Several smaller groups of Mormons broke with the church over the issue of plural marriage, forming several denominations of Mormon fundamentalism. Meanwhile, the Church has become a proponent of monogamy and patriotism. All Mormon faiths set apart from the world by what they believe are their unique relationship with God. The following are core beliefs of the Mormon doctrine. #1The Nature of Jesus Christ- Mormonism is centered on Jesus Christ and His role as creator and redeemer. He is not only the center of Mormon

The current state of the world as we know it is truly in a state of disarray, and is progressively getting worse with each and every passing day. Immorality has become the “front runner” (as it pertains to the pernicious things that are permeating throughout the world) for the tenacious decline that has taken this world by storm. One might easily say that, “This has been the case for ions of years” and it might very well be the case. Nevertheless, not since biblical times (speculative speaking) has there been such an outright, disrespectful, arrogant, and “out in the open” type of way that the world seems to be sinfully living. It almost appears that Situation Ethics has become the new “mandate”, and the Bible is now being viewed as “archaic”, or not applicable to anyone today! Therefore, since this is the case in our society than who’s influence is it going to take to help turn this world around? Undoubtedly, it’s going to have to be the Church.

Despite the shortcomings of this book, it remains a useful source for understanding the polity of church such as congregationalism, the ordinances, church membership and discipline, elders and deacons, and church and churches. It provides many documents of church polity that cannot be found anywhere else. The book can help to me to be a great intellectual with corrective does of polity thinking.

Religion is potentially one of the single most influential concepts in our history as people. Power in religion divides social groups and those groups contain a tiny portion of a ruling elite group who make use of power and control others. In social groups, individuals who are inferior or subordinate are dealt with as subjects by the ones who exert more control and are compelled to accept societal norms free willingly while those who are superior hold power. A Pentecostal church uses powerful mechanisms such as internal surveillance or panopticism to keep their believers in a well-disciplined society. In this essay I look at the way power is exerted throughout the ritual at Kennedy Road Tabernacle in a Pentecostal church, demonstrating how those in power have control over the ones who are inferior or subordinate. Throughout this examination, I will use the theories of Louis Althusser and Michel Foucault to analyze the ways in which power is exerted within the members of this community.

Now back to the theme of social justice and the book of Amos…as Borg points our in his chapter on “Reading the prophets again”, and so it can be found in the bible, Amos speaks out against the wealthy for their exploitation of the poor. As Borg puts it, “he paints vivid and compelling pictures of

The purpose of a church is to maintain order of the religion and clarify their doctrines and teachings. This holds true for all churches from the Second Adventists, to the Church of the Green Cross, to the Lutherans, to the Catholic Church. The aim of this paper is to show that God founded a church and to mark the path to help us find the true one.