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    to receive Jesus as his Savior, but little did he know he would leave church with doubts about God. The story also points out very discrete and different perspectives of what Salvation is. Salvation is viewed differently in the story in which three people feel as though it is pressured upon, a necessity to life and a daily revival. The author Langston Hughes was convinced by the…

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    Luke 4: 16-19 Analysis

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    to the crowd in Nazareth, and to the modern society and Christians. Through this short passage, modern day Christians can extract an important function of the church in the society and the duty of the church to proclaim the year of Jubilee for the world to believe the savior, Jesus Christ. Jesus brings good news to the poor, and the church should do the same thing. He came to rescue and heal the broken people of the era. Throughout the Old Testament and the New Testament, the scripture argues…

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    John 16-34 Analysis

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    To place Christ as part of the divine with a singular God was to deny the emperor his power and influence. Facing these tidal headwinds coming from the emperor, the promotion of Christology was viewed as useful propaganda by early Christians. It became a useful guide to explain many of the mysteries surrounding the human nature of Jesus, his good deeds, and his subsequent resurrection into Heaven. While trying to convince an audience couched in Greek philosophy, practitioners of Christology…

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    Spiritual Maturity Essay

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    Spiritual maturity is something that begins when someone accepts Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior, and is learning how to walk in obedience to God. It is making the choice to live by God’s viewpoint rather than your own viewpoint. Like it says in Galatians 5:16 that “I say then, walk by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.” Once that person becomes saved then they should want to grow in the ways of the Lord, and strive for maturity or perfection. It says in 2 Peter…

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    Tarshish Analysis

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    am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me.” (Exodus 20:5) God desires us to be totally devoted to him alone. The one large area that I need to surrender to Christ is my call to the ministry, God has not illuminated my path forward so I do not know where I go. I apperceive that I will not like it. However, God has revealed to numerous events in my life and how they all converge on this road. It leaves…

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    Ernest Hemingway, born into a strict Congregationalist home in Oak Park, Illinois, regularly attended services at the First Congregationalist Church. Later in his life, he converted to Catholicism for his second wife, Pauline. Many sources say that although he labeled himself under a religion for the entirety of his life, his writing reveals that he was an atheist in actuality (Kershaw, "Ernest Hemingway’s Religion and Political Views"). Hemingway’s experiences with religion are illustrated in…

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    Image Of God

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    the seed of woman. Beside this verse, there are many scriptures such as Isaiah 7:14 and Isaiah 9:6-7 clearly give an idea of the person of Christ coming as a prophecy who will redeem the world. Therefore, the Old Testament describes the image of God as a promise and prophecy of Jesus. When it comes about the New Testament, the contexts witness that Jesus Christ indeed came to people being a person. In this case, “Christology from above” approach will be used as a theological way. Firstly, when…

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    Before we dive into the subject of Apologetics in conversation, we must understand why we must practice apologetics and the answer is simply because God commands us to do so. In 1 Peter 3:15 God tells us, 'But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect. ' Even though many of us may never come across someone who will question our faith, we must…

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    C. S. R. Lewis Analysis

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    writings. He hoped that his readers could learn about God through his works and that he could glorify God through this. Lewis even went so far as to say, “The church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs” (Wood, 2003, 318). He continues by saying that if the church does not create “little Christs” then they are wasting their time and effort. Lewis displays his Christian symbolism in a straightforward manner, while Tolkien buries his messages in the…

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    Stanley Hauerwas and William H. Willimon use Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony to argue that the church has been called on by God to be what they call a “unique colony” within today’s world, and not a social group who makes their decision based on society’s opinions. The authors chose to use the metaphor of a colony to symbolize that although the church is part of the state its first priority is God and his will, rather than the governments. The second metaphor the authors chose to…

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