Churches of Christ

martyrdom of Saint Ignatius of Antioch, Perpetua, and Felicity, Saint Polycarp exemplified themes of Liturgy, veneration of the martyrs, and imitation of Christ. However, the narrative of Polycarp’s martyrdom…

more women in the American Catholic churches are more involved in the church than the ones from the Catholic Doctrine. Doctrine females weren’t allow to get involve with the church because if the pope or whoever was in charge of the church let the women get involved they would of got ideas that they could one day become a priestess in the church since they were allow to be involved in some part of it. In the American Catholic more females are involved on the churches and have more free dominant…

The Church Growth Movement: Doing Business with Christ The largest Protestant denomination in the United States is the Southern Baptist Convention. It became the largest by consistently baptizing an average of 379,711 people annually. From 1950 to 2011 Southern Baptists baptized an average of 379,711 people annually. Only twice during that time did the numbers dip more than 10 percent below that average. But in 2012 the decline was 13 percent off the average—the worst drop in sixty-two years.…

Porter family serves in Middle East Salvation spreads through the Middle East Missionaries to the Middle East share insights into the culture. The Western world seems to gravitate towards negative or fearful views of the Middle East and the people groups that live there. Inspire of the highly publicized violence of Muslim extremists, God’s message of redemption is rapidly spreading through Islamic people groups. Great and Laura Porter are missionaries who have been involved in the Middle East…

challenges the world’s inherent ethnocentric mind to think of others first. Furthermore, His forgiveness challenges the body of the Church to reconcile amongst each other, rather than exalt ourselves. It is written in the Cape Town Commitment that, “Christ is our peace, made peace through the cross, and preached peace to the divided world of Jew and Gentile. The unity of the people of God is both a fact, and a mandate” (39). The gospel was not for one people group of the world. Nor was it for…

biblical support I would read Exodus 4:10-11, and explain to her that even though Moses struggled talking God had a plan him. I would direct her to other pieces of Scripture that talk about God use those who are seen as having no benefit to the body of Christ to accomplish miraculous…

The church in America is a part of our culture and has been since the beginning. The mindset of our country is changing and this is where the followers of Christ come from. I remember a scandal from the Clinton administration. Hilary Clinton had worn a cross, and the debate was should a government leader, such as a first lady, wear a sign of faith in public. My position back then was if, for her, the cross was a sign of faith then she had a right to wear the symbol, like a Muslim woman should be…

It began as a reaction to the stale religious belief of the traditional institutional churches. It forced religion out of state sponsored churches and into underground groups. Published in 1799, one of Friedrich Schleiermacher’s earliest books, On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers is majorly influenced by Pietism. He argued for a conjectural change in how…

1st century-Split with Judaism At around year 50, the first council of the church known as the Council of Jerusalem, convened a meeting to reconcile doctrinal differences concerning the Gentile mission. At this meeting, it was agreed that Gentiles could be accepted to Christianity without full adherence to Mosaic laws 2nd Century-Early Heresies In this century, the role of Bishops was to refute heresies. Christians began to deny both Christ’s divinity and humanity. Examples are; Doetism and…

What is marriage? There are many types of marriages, yet the two most popular are opposite sex marriage and same sex marriage. Opposite sex marriage is two people of the opposite sex combining as partners in a relationship by law. Same sex marriage is the same as opposite, but instead of the opposite sex it is the same sex. People have questions such as does it affect family members. Although many people would say it does not, it does. The people that are making the affect on their family are…