Christian worship

Piper goes onto explaining that the missions is means for the worship of God, which is “the fuel and goal of missions,” because “all of history is moving toward one great goal, the white-hot worship of God and his Son among all the peoples of the earth” (p.20-21). This is portrayed as a wake up call for those who are religious to break out of simply thinking missions as just saving…

I have experienced many kinds of Christian churches, but the ones that were so unalike and so alike of the Christian churches were the Baptist and Catholic churches. They are also the two dominant Christian Churches in the USA. The similarities are that of what drives these churches, what they preach, sing to, etc. However, the differences of the churches are, what they do, act and how they present it, which are contradicting in many ways. Before I compare and contrast the two churches I am…

Question #2 In the first century, Christians generally met in each other’s houses. They congregated in synagogues, as they did not have a formal place to meet, as many of them dubbed themselves Messianic Jews. Since they did not have the infrastructure to fellowship in large buildings, many of them gathered together in house churches. They met on the day Jesus rose from the grave, Sunday, unless they went to Synagogue, in which they met on Saturday. The tradition of meeting on Sundays set soon…

church is a group of Christian who share the same faith gathering together to worship God regularly and grow spiritually with each other. Everyone inside the church is equal because s/he is the child of God. Each person has different talent and functions differently in the church to create a community together. People inside the same church share the same doctrines and missions. By following certain traditions, they practice rituals such as baptism, Holy Communion, and musical worship. By…

Americans have missed the mark when it comes to discipleship from Biblical example. He gives a prime example of the Rwandan genocide and how Rwanda was a mostly Christian nation. In this he shows that the “discipleship” process was a failure, and that there must be more to true discipleship. Camp brings across the point that we are to be Christian, first, and then identified with other concepts and attributes later. In that, he shows that following Christ should be on the forefront of every…

commentaries on our Sunday Morning Worship Services at Rivers Chapel United Methodist Church. The first commentary dealt with the “Word and Table Service” (January 3, 2016). The second commentary deals with January 10, 2016 service on Baptism. The January 3, 2016 Worship Service Program follows the 2016 (Year C) Lectionary Calendar found on the internet. The program not only gave the order of service, it also provided information concerning what period of the Christian year we were…

i. The Most Formative Experience of My Christian Life: I come from the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in which people identifying with the Christian faith comprise a minority of approximately 2.6%. Pakistan is highly influenced by radical Islam, which creates innumerous challenges for progressive minded Muslims and non-Muslims. I have been actively involved in the Christian church since childhood, participating through singing, reading scripture, public speaking, volunteering at soup kitchens,…

How did Christian thinkers and missionaries adapt Greco-Roman ideas to Christian theology and develop effective techniques for converting barbarian peoples? Christian thinkers and missionaries adapted Christian principles to assimilate social and cultural norms of the time. Church teachings in the third and fourth centuries adapted ideas on gender roles and sexuality to conform to existing Roman values. Furthermore, missionaries seeking to spread Christianity beyond the Roman Empire did so by…

passage illustrates what it means to be caretakers of the Earth and the environment including all those living within it. Stewardship of the earth comes with respect and protection of life, which is relevant today as the Christian faith faces the contemporary issue of Abortion. Christian faith has an extremely strong stance against abortion, as it is the destruction of a life. However, not all Christian’s are completely against it as some believe there are certain parameters of which it is…

Chapter 3: Theology of Community and Ministry Leading the people of God in the field of ministry and in the body of Christ can sometimes become an extremely difficult task. Thus each Christian leader must play our part in the history of theology of community and the Christian communities. Each worship leader and congregate has a character to portray in God's theology of community and ministry. As a spiritual leader and counselor it is my duty to help execute and carry out those roles by…