Introduction When one attempts to study the theology of the Emerging Church‚ it is easy to find onself with a mental question mark in one’s mind. In ways‚ it can feel like attempting to navigate a giant maze‚ one filled with a myriad of posed questions that never seemed to be answered‚ numerous seemingly contradictory positions and views‚ a number of people to remember that do not exactly share the same views and several semantic variations like emerging versus emergent‚ missions versus missional
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Earliest Christians Today there is a world. A world that we have known of the stories was created years ago. In the world we live in there are unique things imaginable‚ never would have thought that it could exist. Of all that exists in this world and what we know‚ there are diversities of things‚ different people‚ different jobs‚ different means of transportation‚ different religions‚ ect. From small our parents or at least most‚ we instill Christian values. They take us to church and learn about
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PURITY IN CHURCH (Transcript of April 6th Message) This spiritual purity has become the necessary ingredient for the existence of the church; for the survival of the church - meaning without spiritual purity‚ there is no church. Everything that took place on the Cross was indeed the defining‚ the establishment of spiritual purity in the life of the church. Consecration‚ holy segregation‚ covenant with GOD and He says‚ “Separateness” that all of them were meant to boil down to one thing—to boil down
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Christian Scientists When I was first assigned this report I had no idea what Christian Science was. I researched for hours on the religion‚ and tried to find anything I could on it. I found out that Christian Science was a religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. As quoted from a Christian Scientist " This religion is based on the words and works of Christ Jesus‚ and draws its authority form the Bible. Its teachings are set forth in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
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Chapter I Church Growth: Definition Introduction: Tremendous growth is going on in the Christian Church today. For some observers this tends to be obscured by the world population and the increasing percentage of non-Christians which that so far implies. Meanwhile‚ the fact is that the number of Christians is greater now than it has ever been. With the rise of Churches and the expansion of the Church among non-Christian populations‚ multitudes of small congregations of less than hundred members
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Belief System Introduction Each country has its own culture as each person has his/her own religion. Belief system of a person or a society is the set of beliefs that they have about what things are right‚ wrong and what things are true‚ false. The personal beliefs of us play a small part in each religion‚ which it points out the special of it that no others can have. Religion is certainly a type of belief system‚ but not all belief systems are religion. Each individual person has different
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the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. Spirit is God‚ and man is His image and likeness. Therefore man is not material; he is spiritual.” (S&H 468) “Christian Science founder‚ Mary Baker Eddy was born in Bow‚ New Hampshire‚ in 1821. Her parents were devout Christians and she joined a Congregational Church at age 17. She was chronically sick growing up with many ailments including paralysis‚ hysteria‚ seizures and convulsions. At 22‚ she married her first of three husbands‚ George
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differ from his or her own beliefs‚ ideals‚ and way of life‚ it is only then that an individual can truly appreciate what he or she believes in as well as respect and appreciate what others believe. Knowing this I decided that for my social experiment I would visit the Abbey at Benedictine University for their mass at noon. Before I ventured to the Abbey at Benedictine University I had a general idea about the Catholic faith. As a Muslim student on the Muslim-Christian Dialogue Committee at Benedictine
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Isabella and Ferdinand caused an age of exploration and expansion. B. After German Monk Martin Luther posted his 95 theses against church abuses‚ there was a powerful movement away from the Catholic Church called the Protestant Reformation‚ causing the Roman Catholic countries to secure their power in the world by converting non-Christian countries. C. England originally did not explore the New World‚ England was Catholic and so was Spain. 1. When England became Protestant
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Church as Institution and Church as Mystical Communion In 1974 Dulles published Models of the Church to address questions concerning ecclesiology-the study of the church. Many people believe that they know the meaning of the church‚ which is a place to become closer to God. However‚ there is more than what meets the eye when it comes to the Church‚ since it is a very complex organization. Dulles’ book identifies and describes the different functions the Church possesses which Jesus Christ founded
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