There is a strong emphasis put on keeping those in the fold of the Church and going out and recruiting the heathens who do not come to Church. Instead Billings has so graciously broaden the prospective to show the Church that the people who are not coming should still be a part of the Church community and their needs are just as important as those inside the Church. The greatest opportunities for the Church are when the ‘outsiders’ decide they have a reason to come and use the Church as a resource. They may need the Church for a baptism, a wedding, or a funeral; these opportunities are great to show that the Church bears life and is there to support them. The present society appears to have an identity predicament with the Church, because there is a tremendous amount of self-help propaganda in this society; therefore they simply do not care about a commitment with the Church, but can read about how to be better people in the comfort and safety of their own homes.
In most jobs, you probably can't just walk up and get in someone's face about Christ. You have to be sensitive to the situation and open to the Spirit opening the door. We are not supposed to go out and try and convert the non-Christian soldiers, but if they ask about Christ, chaplains are free to share what he/she believes. This means that evangelism begins with simply getting to know the soldiers in any military unit, loving them, serving them, and letting them know that Christian chaplains, hope and strength comes from
Journal Article Review II: The Church as Forgiving Community: An Initial Model Journal Article Review II: The Church As Forgiving Community: An Initial Model Summary Magnuson and Enright (2008) offer a discussion of forgiveness and how important it is to the complex human being. Forgiveness is first recognized in the Bible. It is a way of ending resentment and responding to others in a generously. Forgiveness does not involve forgetting the unjust act that occurred, but it offers mercy to the offender (Magnuson & Enright, 2008). Even though forgiveness is a part of the Church in that it is expressed in God's Word, social scientists such as Smedes (1984) and Worthington and DiBlasio (1990) explored the topic even more in the recent years.
Book Review Christian Coaching: Helping Others Turn Potential Into Reality Gary R Collins, PhD. Julie Donahue Liberty University LIFC 501-D03 Abstract Dr. Gary Collins divides Christian Coaching: Helping Others Turn Potential into Reality into seven sections: foundations of Christian coaching, skills of Christian coaching; assessment in Christian coaching; vision in Christian coaching; strategy, action, and obstacles in Christian coaching, specialties in Christian coaching; and the practice of Christian coaching. In this paper, I will summarize the key points of the book, share my personal response to the material, and describe how I will apply the material to my work as a life coach. In Part 1: Foundations of Christian Coaching, Collins defines coaching; describes a good coach; discusses the process of changing, and relates coaching to leadership. Coaching helps people find greater fulfillment in life.
I really like his outlook on God given talents. He feels that God gave us theses talents we have to glorify him, therefore we should use them as God intended us too. This book helped me grow as a Christian. Just seeing the examples he set for others is one thing that made me realize I needed to do in my own life. Whither I realize it or not people are always watching me.
The first goal was even though everyone lives separately they should all come together with love towards their religion, Secondly, the religion that everyone follows is more important than their individual lives, If the group is not good then everyone as individuals are not good. Thirdly, they are to improve their lives so that they will do more for God. They want themselves and their children saved from the corruption of the world, and to serve their God and work out their salvation. Fourthly, their plan will take unordinary ways to reach their goals. Everyone must actually practice what they learn from church everyday not just at church.
I’m sure they did everything right but I want to make the people understand from what I’m preaching about God.” Leele: “What do you hopefully wish you can improve your success to gain people attention to your preach of God?” Karissa (Aimee): “Since I have advertised, traveled, performed on stages, and interviews with reporters. I hopefully wish I can improve by creating a location for where people can come and go and listen to my preaching in one certain place, where I can call it ’My home’. I want to call it the FourSquare Gospel.” Leele: “What steps did you take in order to become famous, or to make yourself known to other people?” Karissa (Aimee): “Well, at first I didn’t want to become famous but when I started to advertised after the death of my husband, I realized people need to listen what God is telling to tell His people. I went beyond than just advertising and did more to have people feel like they are with God.” Leele: “What kind of impact do you have on these people with your preaching of
She would use terms like “higher self” and spirit but never honor God has the source. Other reason why I determine her view slightly differ from mine is she didn't believe marriage was for her but she does continue as this day living with her companion Stedman Graham. Other areas that I do agree with Oprah is finding your passion and creating the life your desire to live, serving humanity by being giver and choosing the right career base on your passion. As I began to read and do research I became a little confuse with what is really Oprah's worldview is she christian or not. Also after her show she began to show more of her true-self through her life-class.
Coming of Age Coming of Age Tiffany Baker Psychology 101 Teacher: Jennifer Fitch By Tiffany Baker Psychology 101 Teacher: Jennifer Fitch By Abstract Coming of Age can be tough especially entering the adult world! Sometimes growing up you don’t realize how easy you have it as a kid. As you grow up you go through obstacles that “mold” and “shape” you into the person you become. I can’t say that I would want to be a kid again but there are somethings I would like to change about my past. Things happen in your life for a reason, some good and some bad.
People attend religious services every Sunday or pray at particular parts of the day because it’s their way of getting closer to the supernatural. It makes them feel better because it gives them a sense of purpose and gives them a sense of unity with others that share the same beliefs. “Confidence theories also begin with a notion of man’s inward sense of weakness, and especially of his fears—of disease, of death, of ill fortune of all kinds—and they see religious practices as designed to quiet such fears, either by explaining them away, as in doctrines of the afterlife, or by claiming to link the individual to external sources of strength, as in prayer.” (Moro, 2010) Religion and rituals also are very functional aspects of