Evangelism

theology is a necessity which builds the foundation need to complete a successful missionary assignment. Church leaders have a greater responsibility of ensuring that their congregation understands the vision and mandate of the church especially evangelism and missions. As leaders, it is imperative that the Great Commission which requires the believer to evangelize remains a priority for facilitating kingdom building and church growth. Finally, missions is not just the responsibility of…

I had similar experience, which was explained in No.1, on the edge of entering. I was church shopping when I came to the USA 20 years ago. I went to almost every church in the town. I didn’t feel welcomed, most churches wanted to convert me to Christianity in spite of telling them I am a Christian. For most of them since I am from India I am a Hindu and I need to be converted to Christianity. However, when a friend took me to a Lutheran church, where they had fellowship hour before the worship…

creating honest wealth and long lasting relationships. The French alike the Spanish made efforts to spread Catholicism, but like the Dutch, did not eradicate the practicing of other religions. They had a friendly and respectful approach in their evangelism and did not punish any independence from the Catholic beliefs. Catholicism was not widely used to make decisions in their…

19.African Slavery in the colonies began because the people began to find that using them as labor workers were more economical. They were able to use them to their fullest potential for however long they wanted instead of having a time frame that’s listed on a contract. They would rather have a lifetime supply of plantation workers. 20. Slave culture continued to widely spread throughout all the American colonies and became more depended on. Enslaved Africans soon took over much of the…

“The holy text of Christianity is the Bible, including both the Old Testament and the New Testament.” Essential to Christian practice is the meeting at churches for Sunday worship, fellowship, and bible study, and commitment with the world through evangelism and group…

The Children of God, a new religious movement by David Berg serves to manifest the idea of the “Law of Love.” Conserving the ideas of “flirty-fishing” and evangelism, the role of gender and sexuality is highly interpreted within the Children of God. In specific, gender and sexuality is highly targeted towards females within new religious movements (NRMs). To begin, gender plays a role in new religious movements, where women become subordinated in a hierarchy, lower than men, while they…

As I was sitting in class one day, my professor prepared to ask us a question. I centered all my theological knowledge into one area of my brain, and was ready to analyze whatever came through. I was ready. He asked, “Can God cut down a tree with a floppy fish?” Completely flabbergasted, I was unaware of what to say or think, except that God could do anything he wished, so yes. Then he said, “But wouldn’t it be so much easier with a sword.” It then occurred to me that I was the floppy fish.…

nations, the Dutch, the Danes, and the English succeeded in colonial expansion. Andrea Strubind in a staff research paper on “Reformation Identities” rightly said that The discovery and conquest of the new worlds did not remain unknown to Luther, but they did not provoke him to any theological response. Not only Lutheranism, but all of Protestantism, remained aloof from the world missionary zealotry throughout the 16th century. Within Lutheranism, the rejection of the targeted missions until…

Arminianism (free will), Evangelical vs. Charismatic, large churches vs. small churches, amount of structure and repetition within and between weeks in worship service, amount of church services attended a week, the importance of Evangelism in practice (not theory), how Evangelism is done, open communion vs. closed communion, baptism by immersion vs. baptism by sprinkling vs. baptism by pouring… and the list goes on” (Eric). Marrying outside of your sect you often have to choose what religion…

Augustine’s Confessions Book III Response In Book Three of Augustine’s Confessions, Augustine recounts what he considers to be the lowest point in his life, the “climax of [his] enjoyment(CH1)”. He recalls how malicious influences continued to haunt him, and that even when he found good influences, he found something in them inexcusably dissatisfying. Augustine is now around the age of eighteen and in Carthage. He has fallen even farther down the slippery slope of lust and sinful indulgence,…