Langston Hughes in, “Salvation”, described how he, a young innocent boy, was pressured by his peers and elders so much that he lied about his faith. The 12-year-old Langston Hughes was participating in a revival at his aunt’s church. The purpose of the revival was to bring the young to Jesus to be saved from their sins. Instead of
He also took a stand on clergy not elders being the only one to lay hands on in ordaining other men into the ministry. Johnson also stood to have the Lord’s Supper served every week other than quarterly as previously practiced by the congregation. Johnson felt so strongly about these issues that he would not back down and as reported by Legendre his last Sunday he “overcome by anger and frustration and voices several injudicious remarks, including ‘pronouncing the church a corrupt
This made him feel accepted and he made new friends. In “Shame,” the boy goes through a bad experience. He was placed in the “idiot” desk located at the back of the classroom. He would make noises and poke people to try and draw attention to him. As the teacher was going around the room asking how much their fathers were donating for the Community Chest the teacher skipped over him.
Terika Zimmerman Essay 3 The story “Salvation,” by Langston Hughes discusses how young children were peer-pressured into being saved and giving their lives to Jesus. A thirteen year old boy named Langston Hughes was saved from sin, but was not really saved. The author states how his aunt's church was having a big revival with singing, praising,and shouting. Langston Hughes explained how the preacher wanted all the young children to come into the fold, so they can be saved and give themselves to Jesus. The writer explains how he wanted to see, speak, and feel Jesus come to him, but he never got that feeling from Jesus.
When he went home and told his parents, his father told him something that he would never forget, “Don’t let it make you feel you are not as good as white people. You are as good as anyone else, and you don’t ever forget it.” At age 15, Martin was accepted into Morehouse University and enrolled in college. When king was still in college, he was introduced to the teachings of the great Mahatma Gandhi. He was truly inspired by Gandhi’s nonviolent movement so he decided to start one to end segregation. After king left college, he decided to become a pastor at a local church.
Young Goodman Brown acts the way he did because of experience. This town acts the way they do based on tradition. The similarities between their behaviors are so uncanny that you can understand why it is so important for a Christian to continue to fill their spiritual life with the right stuff each day. What if just one person decided to talk to Young Goodman Brown about his experience? What if one person decided to stop the Lottery and explain how primitive it is to murder someone for the sake of entertainment?
Its hard to comprehend that the lord just forgives us of our sins so easily and its almost too good to be true. I feel that its one of those things that you just have to be patient and with time you can accept this great thing the lord does for us. A lot of Christians carry around guilt and don’t realize that once they are born again they are graciously forgiven. This guilt that these Christians carry around inhibits them from being at there full potential and that’s why they need to let go of there sin, just as the Lord as let it go as well. "'The assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” (Hebrews 11:1) Faith is a powerful thing.
Reverend Parris is a priest who is supposed to preach about the good will of God, but Reverend Parris abuses his power by preaching instead about “golden candlesticks” and pensioning the townspeople to give him more salary, give him the deed to his house, and to do so he was willing to kill innocents. “And yet silent, minister? It is fraud you know it is fraud! What keeps you man? Said Giles (78).
He was moved by the examples of Mahatma Gandhi’s civil defiance in India and became devoted to the belief of non-violence (1). “King bested his white classmates in the usual seminary fare of Bible criticism, church history, church administration, and practice preaching.” His success in religion classes and public speaking gave him confidence to follow in his father and grandfathers steps in becoming a minister. (2) Martin grew up when there was a lot of discrimination against black people. In his early childhood Martin had to stop playing with his fiend who was white because his friends’ mother wouldn’t let him play with a “negro”. The 1930’s began with The Depression and ended with World War II.
The greatest division occurred in 1861 during the American Civil War. The two branches created by that division were reunited in 1983 to form the Presbyterian Church U.S.A, currently the largest Presbyterian group in this country. Then told William K. why I came to the church and I told him I pick this church because I didn’t think the church had a sertin belief so then he got into more detail about their belief (by the way he was sweating a lot) but from what I have down from my notes he said Some of the principles articulated by John Calvin remain at the core of Presbyterian beliefs. Among these are the sovereignty of God, the authority of the scripture, justification by grace through faith and the priesthood of all believers. What they mean is that God is the supreme authority throughout the universe.