Church of God in Christ

be legalized. What is polygamy, polygamy is the practice of a man marrying more than one woman. According to the LDS, church polygamy was started in the U.S by a man named Joseph Smith. Joseph Smith was born on December 23, 1805, when Joseph Smith was 14 it is said that he saw God and his son Jesus, it is also said…

power usage toward his followers in the FLDS church indicates a complicated group process relating to status. This is not an instance of a crazy leader brainwashing innocent followers; this is an instance of a high-status actor manipulating power over low-status actors all in the guise of religion. The power of religion is something that many individuals hold as incredibly important in their lives. To religious individuals, their religion and their God/Gods hold a higher status than they do. …

There is a separation between church and state in order to allow people to not only practice, but celebrate their own religion freely. The US government is based off the values of the men that wrote it though. The Puritan and Eurocentric views reflect heavily on the constitution and the amendments. The documents that which we base our way of living off of were written by and for cist white males and them only. This makes anything that goes against their original laws hard to overcome. The laws…

In the American church faithful ministry has been traded for models more akin to modern business than biblical ministry. The desire for a more authentic expression of Christian faith has resulted in an overflow of passion to see the American church change. Consequently, a call has sounded for a return to a more faithful approach to ministry that rejects trendy models to follow the example of Christ Jesus. This call has become a ministry movement known as missional ministry. Missional ministry…

the humanity and divinity of Jesus Christ. At the beginning of the fourth century, the First Council of Nicaea was convened to come against the heretical teachings of Arius. Arius, a presbyter from Alexandria, along with his followers, believed that “before [the Son] was begotten or created or defined or established, he was not for he was not unbegotten and that the Son had a beginning but God has no beginning” (Bingham, D. Jeffrey. Pocket History of the Church. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity,…

the church, so that one can effectively operate in transformational leadership and managing churches. Transformational leadership is an approach that aims to cause transformation in individuals. It is essential to understand the nature and purpose of the church. There are various views and opinions as to who the church is, what the purpose of the church is, and what the mission of the church is. In particular, the church is viewed from three different aspects: The Church as the People of God,…

what a church is. Is it a building? Or is it the people, that create the church? There are many perspectives on this topic. Here is my view on this topic. Throughout my whole life, I have been taught that the “church” was not the building. It was the people inside the building. Some people may state scripture and say that it is the building that one is in, such as Matthew 16:13-20. Here it states that Jesus asked his disciples who people thought he was. Some thought a prophet. Then Christ…

disconnected from believing, rather, the function and belief of the Church established its pattern of intellectual thought. The Church was Christocentric and thus, their intellectualism was Christocentric as their tradition was in “thinking about the God who is known and seeking the One who is loved” (pg. 311). The hearts and attention of the early church were captivated by God, enveloping and formulating their intellect.…

practices of the Catholic Church, a man named Martin Luther took a stand with five solas to represent God and bring reformation. The five solas included scripture alone, Christ alone, faith alone, grace alone, and for the glory of God alone. Before the ninetly five thesis had been written, Luther had been living the way of the five solas without knowing it. It all started back when Luther was caught up in a ferocious storm that lead Luther into making a promise with God to become a monk.…

Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the doors of a church in Wittenberg, Germany. At that time, the Catholic church had twisted the original meaning of scriptures to encourage the buying of indulgences, which were paid passes out of purgatory, the costly visiting of relics, most of which were fake, and the submission to the ultimate authority of the pope, who was one of the most powerful men in the world. To add to this injustice, the church purposely refrained from translating the Bible…