Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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…

I would like to introduce you to a man. This man loved God and pursued Him diligently; he was a man who had weaknesses same as you and me, but also a man who had yielded his life to Christ and desired for God to work through him for God’s glory. I have come to admire this man very much. His name was Benjamin Rush. In Benjamin’s early years he suffered the loss of his father. His mother moved her young family to Philadelphia where she opened a grocery store to provide for her children. Determined…

Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird portrays the prejudiced attitudes and racism, financial trouble as well as the good and evil sides of human beings where in some events fear and tradition can overrule morals. These points are clearly shown in the twentieth century where many events took place such as the Great Depression, Civil Rights Movement and World War 2. To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel set in the 1930s that is told in the point of Scout Finch as she matures and loses the innocence of…

Discipleship and a Healthy Church When a church is healthy it will spiritually reproduce itself. First thing comes to mind when someone hear the word healthy, is the human body. Earl and Dempsey says, “In the simplest terms, a healthy church looks like and acts like a healthy body”. A healthy body is more active, and have more energy to be active; correspondingly a healthy church is more active reproducing disciples. The intent of this paper show the goal of a healthy church is to make…

1. Introduction Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933, bringing an end to German democracy. Guided by racist and authoritarian ideas, the Nazis abolished basic freedoms(3)The Third Reich quickly became a police state, where individuals were subject to arbitrary arrest and imprisonment. By mid-July 1933, the Nazi party was the only political party permitted in Germany German resistance to Nazism (“Widerstand”) was the opposition by individuals and groups in…

We believe that those with the gift of leadership should lead the ministry. Within the ministry are leaders committed to the ministry teams and consensus in prayerful dependence on God’s word, the Holy Spirit and one another. Which begins with the church leaders, who have the final responsibility for guiding and shepherding all ministry areas. “Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with…