Evangelists

The Origin of The Reformation The Protestant Reformation was a religious movement that began in Germany in the 1500s. This religious movement spread throughout Western and central Europe and brought changes in the political, social, economic, and intellectual life. The Protestant Reformation “grew out of religious conditions of the late Middle Ages but historians disagree about the state of the Catholic Church during this period”(). There are people who believe that the church was in a period of…

The creation of the Internet and social media has permanently changed how people interact with one another. Millions of people log on to the internet daily for the purpose of interaction. Furthermore, according to Nils Smith, social media is now the most popular activity on the Internet. This twenty-first century phenomenon provides a great opportunity for churches to capitalize on this innovative technology, using it as a ministry tool for evangelism. While thousands of people use social…

The term, infancy narratives, is applied to the accounts of the birth and early life of Jesus. They are only found in two of the gospels. While Matthew and Luke are the only two gospels that contain the infancy narratives, they are a significant part in the story of Jesus. Matthew’s and Luke’s infancy narrative are both distinct, neither were a source for each other. While referred to as the infancy narratives they do not give us much from Jesus’ infancy and childhood. What the infancy…

For the evangelist, the former should bear the responsibility of the devastation of Jerusalem. Both Jews and Gentiles are welcome to the kingdom of heaven and have the same responsibility to wear their own wedding garment. The replacement theory is indeed a deplorable…

The Catholic Church has again been the centre of abuse claims from around the world. Are these isolated cases or is there a deeper problem within the church? 1 > The short answer is - Yes, there are deeper problems within the church regarding claims of sexual deviances. Reports have been around for a long while, even going back to Pope, John Paul II. News groups report credible evidence that the former Pope was aware that his Catholic Church comrades faced serious allegations that they had…

The reason why there are so many churches on every street corner of every city spurs from a much greater reason than disagreement of congregational conflict, sanctuary design, and worship preference. For many centuries the Baptist church has strived to form a Christian community that is established in both Scripture and Spirit crafted to best spiritually form Christians to live God’s calling for their lives. While there are numerous factors that differ us from our denominational brethren, I…

Spirituality can be perceived as a personal attitude of first discovering the truth about God, who is God and why should one worship that God. One strong belief in the truth about God would lead one to walk a life in righteousness to practice one’s faith. If one remains unaware of who one is worshipping- one is unable to analyze the kind of spirituality and rituals one is expected to participate in. By this I mean, using the Christian tradition as my center of focus, I can refer to the example…

Brien W Tarkington Professor Carol Singletary Eng 104 20 July 15 Searching for the Republican Party's Fountain of Youth Republicans have been running the same political blueprint for winning elections since Nixon's campaign in 1968. According to a New Yorker interview with Pat Buchanan, who was a part of Nixon's staff in '68, the republican power brokers sought to, “create the impression that there were two Americas: the quiet, ordinary, patriotic, religious, law-abiding Many, and the noisy,…

David Bosch, considered to be a foremost mission theologian, presents thorough scholarship drawing upon a vast number and breadth of sources, covering the entire chronological scope to the present era of NT church history from a "emerging ecumenical paradigm of mission" perspective in an amazingly compact fashion. The epochal treatment of missions by Bosch is notable, also in it’s scope from Primitive Christianity, Hellenistic period, middle ages Roman Catholic, Reformation, Modern…

I am walking down the street and you see a person in ragged clothes, you can tell they are homeless and come up and ask you for money. You tell them no and continue walking down the street. This is something that happens to a lot of people in our society and is something we don’t really think about overall. When people think of a population like the homeless, they might look at them in a negative way and wonder way they just can’t get a job, not know the conditions that surround their situation…