That's why I preach my way through entire books of the Bible, dealing carefully with each verse and phrase--even though that occasionally means spending time in passages that don't readily lend themselves to anecdotal or motivational messages. I am grateful to the Lord for the way He has used this exposi- tory approach in our church and in the lives of our radio listeners. But now and then someone tells me frankly that my preaching needs to be less doctrinal and more practical. Practical application is vital. I don't want to minimize its importance.
We also believe in Him and call Him Chukwu. He made all the world and the other gods." (Achebe, 179). Even when trying to understand the Christian faith their religious beliefs are so ingrained that they create commonalities that are not really there. Akunna continues to talk about how the many gods they worship are helpers of Chukwu because he cannot do everything alone.
singing, prayer, scripture • Others are elements found in scripture that we do periodically i.e. communion, baptism • Others may be acts or elements of worship we have purposefully omitted • Others may be acts or elements we have never thought of i.e. wave offerings, raised heads, standing with reverence, silence before the Lord etc… THE GOAL If as Christian worship leaders We say we believe the ____________, then our worship services must be ____________. If they are to be ___________, they must include the elements found in the ____________. “The church is reconsidering and reconfiguring this vital expression of its relationship with God.
He heard his voice and held a conversation. He was able to interact with God, which is evidence that he must exist. The fact that he experienced God means that he must exist. It would be contrary to go against your senses and say he doesn’t exist when you directly heard him. Furthermore, James & Swinburne identified countless religious experiences during which the people were able to experience God.
How is it possible for people to know the appearance of god when they have never seen him? The description they gave is exactly what was described in the holy bible. One believes what he sees. And an image is created for god when he cannot be seen. This first argument by Gorgias is hence empowered by the image of god which is already implanted in the mind of the audiences.
A Paul who argued with colleagues over how something should be worded, who modified material from sermons to use in other presentations, who juggled writing with preaching and ministry, is a Paul that many Christians can identify with, and even follow.” One of the modern day ideas of Paul the Richards tries to alter is that he worked in solitude, only sharing his letters when they were sent off to their intended recipients. Paul was the leader of a team. While he was clearly the leader, he still had a team comprised of disciples, like Timothy and Titus, and peers, such as Barnabas and Luke. Paul openly reveals the existence of cosenders, leaving the question of whether or not they were also coauthors. Richards examines other letters from the time of Paul with mentioned cosenders and found that these examples, when not being sent from a husband and a wife, were most often sent in the name of a group.
To use univocal or universal language for God raises the problem being that if we argue God is ‘all loving,’ we would also be able to describe a loved one as such, thus demining his almighty status as a supreme being, so how can we use words to accurately describe God? And Given that God is unlike anything or anyone that we can actually experience? Hence, if language applied to God is univocal, it has the effect of bringing God down to an anthropomorphic level. In contrast with this, to use equivocal language, the problem raised here is that God is ‘holy,’ it means that when applying to something else, so I can never know what a word means when it is applied to God. Using these different types of language demonstrates a difficulty; assuming that when we speak of God, we are speaking cognitively- assuming that our statement is something that is either true or false and that it is able to describe an extinct being, God.
As joy is the basis of worship to worship God, to receive and give joy. Whereas, “lively” worship is in a complete different set of worship, and the definition for this rarely varies from people to people, and if I was to rephrase the question again to “Should Christian worship always be lively” than the answer would have to be a resounding no. When we gather to worship God, are main thought is not to be merely entertained or momentarily distracted from God’s greatness. Digression is not the same as worship. Our happiness is all grounded in God’s nature and acts.
But, fortunately, that is not how God chose to speak to us. Rather, he chose to speak his eternal truths within the particular circumstances and events of human history......... The Bible is the Word of God given in human words in history.” So whilst being divinely inspired and having 'eternal relevance', the Bible also has 'historical peculiarity' – each text is conditioned by the language, time and culture in which it was written – interpreting the Bible means understanding these things – i.e. understanding the context in which the text is written. It is important to recognise that interpretation has already taken place for most people reading the Bible; translators have 'interpreted' words and meanings in their Bible translations.
God’s attributes are typically broken down into two categories: Incommunicable (not shared) and Communicable (shared). Some of God’s incommunicable attributes are (taken from Doctrine: What every Christian should believe by Mark Driscoll and Gary Breshears): 1. Independence – God does not need us, or the rest of creation, for anything yet we, and the rest of creation, need him and can glorify him and bring him joy. 2. Unchangeableness – God is unchanging in his being, perfections, purposes, and promises, yet God does act and feel emotions, and he acts and feels differently in response to different situations.