The Doctrine and Covenants is a book of divine revelations, given to members of the Church of Jesus Christ, to help further the establishment of Christ’s Kingdom and contains an invitation to follow the Lord Jesus Christ. As one engulfs oneself into the Doctrine and Covenants, one will find out that, just as the Book of Mormon is the keystone of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the Doctrine and Covenants is a companion to the Book of Mormon and is the capstone of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The Doctrine and Covenants gives new insight to gospel topics and one can further partake of the bread of life as one drinketh from the pages of the Doctrine and Covenants to come closer to Christ.…
Francis Wayland’s Notes on the Principles and Practices of Baptist Churches is an extensive anthology of papers, essays, and instructions on Baptist faith and practice. The subjects of the work sprawl from specifically Baptist theological, ethical, and political commitments—i.e., principles—to concrete issues of polity, preaching, ordination, membership, theological curriculum, and sermon preparation—i.e., practices. What unites these essays, of course, is their Baptist distinctiveness, which, for Wayland, might be more particularly rendered as a commitment to the New Testament as the “only rule of faith and practice” (92). Rather than attempting to comment on all the papers assembled here, I will focus on a few select discussions that detail…
Down through the eons of time, the Body of Christ has had the ability to forget the core mission of the gospel. God has commissioned us and set us apart to fulfill His plan on this planet. Although the Church gets involved in many activities and projects, like cleaning up the neighborhood, summer camps, visiting the shut-ins, what is the reason or purpose for our action. There are many organizations, which hold marriage conferences, feed the poor, build housing in third world countries, give comfort to the grieving, and such, but is this the primary mission of the church? “Without a clear understanding of mission, organizations, and churches alike suffer.”…
God was the one who created it, and he gave it to Jesus. Jesus has the most authority, but there are also other people who have authority also. The pastor has authority also. He is the main leader of the church. He is the one who teaches the word, guides us in the right direction, and keeps the church together as a whole.…
The freedom of belief and religion for Jehovah’s Witnesses is not being enforced in certain countries. Many Witnesses are thrown in jail, killed, and persecuted for their religious beliefs in different countries. The right to freedom of belief and religion applies to everyone from every religion so it is not fair to deprive Witnesses from that right. There is still a chance to save many innocent Witnesses lives and stop them from being killed. It is a violation of the human rights to put someone to death without a fair trial by jury.…
Service Learning Project When we lived in Houston, our neighbor’s were Jehovah’s Witness. Our kids who were close in age would play together after school and during the weekends. It was not until we sent out a birthday invitation that we were informed of their religion. They would stop by on occasion to bring us booklets and invite us to attend their church.…
INTRODUCTION The Jehovah’s Witness religion is a Christian movement with 6.3 million followers worldwide with 0.002% in India. This community does not accept blood or blood products based on their biblical teachings. This belief when compounded with a trauma scenario in India where there is alack of awareness of this community leads to creation of obstacles in their treatment plan along with legal, medical and ethical challenges for the health care provider1. ABSTRACT The awareness of the beliefs of Jehovah’s Witness’s in India is very poor.…
The knowledge and beginning of Christianity began in the early 180 CE where the twelve Christians stood before trial for refusing to worship the gods of the Roman Empire. After 312 CE, “large churches were build in every major city, many with imperial funding, signaled Christianity's growing strength” (textbook pg 272). The churches had spacious courtyard where the city’s poor were able to gather, and the bishops cared for the metropolitan poor. Christianity was able to become a widespread religion when it did due to a few factors of civilization during this time.…
The Beginning Before the Protestant Reformation, there were many concerns felt be Catholics. Many people began to voice their opinions as more translations of holy text became widespread. An important aspect of this change was when Greek became common use again during the renaissance and so the original Greek scripts were read and therefore interpreted differently by people, since before this only the Latin Vulgate was approved by the Church meaning that the Church controlled the contents of the gospel without question. Three major concerns that began to be questioned were the authority of the Pope & Church, indulgences and relics. Initially, people began to suspect corruption in the Church.…
Religion in the United States has always been a substantial factor of people’s lives. The first settlers of America lived a completely different religious lifestyle compared to modern religion. They were completely devoted to their lives as a Christian. Religion played a hefty role in the lives of English Colonist in North America; they were controlled by the rules and regulation of their church and its people.…
I decided to attend a Jehovah witness Kingdom Hall located at 3001 S 84th St, Philadelphia PA 19153. I attended the ceremony February 26th at the 10:00 am service. I chose this venue because I have always had a negative stereotype that I associated with Jehovah witnesses. The negative stereotype was that they would just knock on everyone’s door in the neighborhood. Understanding there Is more to this religion I felt it was important for me to attend this service to help rid my ignorance and provide me with insight into a religion I knew nothing about.…
The church is both the body and the bride of Christ; this idea consists of materiality and unity. The church contains four marks and the people must bear these marks of the church both visibly and in the body. The church is one and unified, though this may be hard to grasp considering all the fragments in the church. The church receives holiness, the second mark, because of Christ’s sacrifice. Church is catholic, meaning that it is universal and whole.…
Pentecostal history is rich which many occurrences in history. Many are familiar with the revivals that have taken place as well as some of the challenges that have faced the saints of this time. There are even moments that new denominations came forth from the desire to articulate the Gospel and just what was going on during that time in America where it was believed that the Spirit was moving among the people. One such denomination is the Assemblies of God. This denomination will be the focus.…
Rome was a city in ancient Greece that provided a great level of religious freedom. In the early days of Christianity many churches were in houses, many people were unaware that these places were Christian gathering spots. Although Christianity began as a secret, they were able to grow. In the first 300 years of its existence Christianity had many accomplishments; there was a sense of community surrounding Christianity. A strong bond was formed between the clergy and the rank and file.…
Introduction The concept of “church” was started as the tabanacle where the Ark of Covenent was placed (Old Testament). Then it was transferred into the “Temple building” where people experienced God’s presence. When Jesus came to dwell among people, He was the Temple instead of the building. He confirmed it; “Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days” (John 2:19 NIV).…