On Saturday evenings my parents alongside my brothers and I would have street meeting opposite the market place in Arima where we engaged in singing and my father preaching the gospel encouraging people to surrender their lives to Jesus. My brothers and I used to enjoy giving out tracks to people (man, woman or child). We were very brave as children never afraid of ridicule or our friends laughing at us. Everyday my mom would wake us at 5.00am in the morning to have family devotion. My parents took turns in administering the scriptures and gave us a scripture verse to learn after which we would hold hands and pray.
(Read Luke 15: 4-7) In these verses Jesus teaches us of a shepherd that leaves his flock of ninety-nine sheep to search for his one lost lamb; and when the shepherd finds his lamb, he takes it back to his flock and rejoices. The lesson that Jesus is teaching by telling the people this parable is that in order to find something that is lost, a person must search for it. One way that we can apply this lesson to our lives today is by reaching out to members that are less active. Letting them know that they are on your mind, that you love them and that you miss seeing them at church on Sunday’s. This can sometimes be a very intimidating task.
Celina Mae Medina Formal Theme no. 2 9-Neon October 16, 2012 Curiosity of a Child, Mind of a Yoda Objective: To write about a descriptive essay about a chance encounter with a “higher being” using prepositional phrases, adjective and adverb clauses. According to my birth certificate, I am a roman catholic. As a child I was taught how to pray and go to church every Sunday with my family. Whenever I question my parents or my grandparents why should I go to church, they would say that I should give thanks to our blessings as well as pray for those who are in need and less fortunate.
I asked my Step-Father, he realized that I knew nothing about the church. He started to question me and saw that I always have assumed it was just family and friends gathering around and sharing the stories at nice brick building. On that night, he took his time to introduce me to Jesus Christ and explained about how He created the Earth and His life on the Earth. After that, he made sure that I had a Sign Language Interpreter at our church for the rest of my life. For twenty years, I was very involved in my church such as serving, praying, signing, and teaching.
The fact is this Woman stopped in a church and gets treated with bad words and unjustness. The white people won’t her thrown out because they are racist Christians. This could be because they all feel uncomfortable about having someone of color among them or feel that this is their place of worship and she invaded their privacy.
No matter how Bobby prays and his family supporting him all the way all comes to no avail, he becomes dejected over his experiences in the church. He eventually decides to move out of the family home, hoping that his mother will in time accept him for who he is. Mary is adamant as she pesters her son about the evil of being gay. Ultimately Bobby realizes that he’ll never live up to his mother’s expectations he throws himself to an oncoming traffic taking his own life. Devastated Mary begins a journey of liberating herself, and the society at large.
In the second letter the parent writes “…Instead of cheese I send you a godly image,-you will have a toke- and from every member of the family I send you a small medal. When you receive this image, kiss it, that it may bless you in your work and your health and guard you against mortal sin.†The Dad sent these word “Remember always the presence of God…. Work and economize as much as you can. The parents insist that the son must go to church. In “My Life and Work†page 234, Henry Ford
The story of John the Baptist is that of an older couple who want a child but are not able to have children and whose prayers are answered when Elizabeth becomes pregnant with a son. Her husband Zachariah was offering incense and prayers to God at the temple with an angel appears to him and tells him his wife is to have a son. Zachariah is an unbeliever, but the angel keeps reassuring him that Elizabeth will have a son and he is to be named John. But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, for your prayer has been heard, and your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John. And you will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth, for he will be great before the Lord.” (8) Zachariah is doubtful but the angel tells him that all things are possible with a belief in God.
Smith2 Then we see people praying to their God for many different reasons. Sometimes people pray for help and feel that God is the only one that can help them. It could be for a loved one who is dying from some kind of disease. If they lived that makes people believe in God. When we are use to going to church and worshiping the same beliefs we feel that our unit is what's right.
In identifying the culture experience of Hopewell Baptist church I will discuss the experience, my preconceived notion about the experience, how my reactions were affected by group influence, and describe the reactions of individuals as well as the effect these reactions had on my behavior and self. When I entered Hopewell Baptist Church with my brother early Sunday morning I realized that it was a Baptist Church. The congregation had mixture of different nationalities not like my church. The people were very friendly. Before church services started, the members went to everyone in the church a shock hands and told each other how glad and happy that they were to see each other this Sunday morning.