Churches of Christ

Pentecostalism is not a church in itself, but it is a movement that includes many different churches incorporating the gifts of the Holy Spirit as a normal part of the “Full Gospel”. The Pentacostal movement began around 1901, a time when church officials declared that the church had gotten way from the bible being understood in a literal sense and started believing the Word of God to be taken in a figurative sense, instead. Freeonlinebible.org states that upon its emerging in the early…

teacher (in the school of theology) or book author. Thus, don’t give-in to false doctrine which compels you to speak in tongues. Your first encounter with the Holy Spirit might not necessarily lead to speaking in tongues. For instance, when Jesus Christ was baptized with the Holy Spirit, He did not speak in tongues. Do not feel intimated if you can’t speak in tongues. There are other wonderful gifts the Holy Spirit can manifest through you. However, the presence of Holy Spirit in a church does…

From the translation of the Latin, we can see that the boy exclaims ' Behold your King comes ', symbolising the bread of sacrament to be the body of Christ. This enables those attending to physically as well as mentally take Christ into their own bodies and therefore their lives. It is easy to argue that this theatrical display brings people together into a shared worship which is more digestible and tangible than a conventional sermon would…

placed on a stand, where it gives light to everyone in the house. In the same way, let your good deeds shine out for all to see, so that everyone will praise your heavenly Father." Anabaptists throughout the centuries have exemplified these words of Christ in both speech and action. Throughout the years of spiritual darkness, Anabaptism has been faithfully shining its candle of Truth and Hope. Although many changes, both positive and negative, have taken place throughout the years since…

Following the death of Christ, and the martyrdom of St. Stephen, the Church was under persecution from those who would rather see the message of Christ be extinguished. No greater persecutor of Christians existed than may be found in the example of Paul, “Going from houses to house, he dragged off men and women and put them in prison” (Acts 8:2 New International Version). Following Paul’s conversion on the road to Damascus, Paul once again emerged as a prolific character in the history of the…

phase of art was mostly characterized by religious expression. Arts were mainly concerned in showcasing the ideas of the church through art rather than accuracy. Most pieces of art at the time featured religious subjects such as depicting the life of Christ. Many of the practices that where featured in early Christian art were further explored during the Byzantine period. For example mosaics had began to rise in popularly during early Christian art the Byzantine period went out of it’s was to…

response to problems that were found in the Catholic Church. Many people started to break away and form new Christian churches. The 1500s were times of alteration in and transformation of the church, and of social and political structures. Baptist, Anglican, Presbyterian and many other denominations of the protestant church are prominent in today’s society. However these types of churches did not always exist, and to understand the Protestant movement we must take a closer look at the 16th…

Luke portrays Christ as an entity of the people in the birth narrative, wholly excluding the magi from the story, only shepherds go to see Christ as an infant born amongst the animals. Later, Luke depicts Christ, not as a figure who teaches on a mountain out of reach to some, but as a leader who shares lessons “on a level place” (Lk 6.17). Jesus is also shown…

Andrew Walls, former missionary and lecturer was the founder of the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non- Western World (University of Edinburgh). He also was the founding editor of the Journal of Religion in Africa. Walls was one of the first people to document a southward gravitational shift of the Christian Church. He first wrote about it in his essay “The Gospel as Prisoner and Liberator of Culture” which was published in 1982 The aim of this paper is to assess and critique Walls’…

Christ gave it a mission, to attack the “gates of hell.” An eschatological perspective would suggest that mission has an expiration date. When Jesus gave His disciples the “Great Commission” (Mark 16:15), an urgency accompanied it, as reflected in the words…