Laity

I am writing a memo to compare two websites both giving information on nephroblastoma or Wilms Tumor. The websites I choose to compare are Medscape and Mayo Clinic. Advertising and marketing affect us more than we realize. The media, businesses and the internet are constantly evaluating their audience to see what attracts them and what gets their attention. Each company or website has their target audience. This is based on gender, education, age, social class and hobbies to name a few. They spend millions of dollars a year targeting their audience and thinking of ways to expand their audience. They know us better than we know ourselves. In viewing both websites, I found that Medscape seems to be geared more toward healthcare professionals while Mayo Clinic seems to be a great choice for the lay person. Medscape starts by explaining Wilms Tumor in a manner most any reader could understand, but as you dig deeper into the site, it starts going into the scientific descriptions of the condition where you would most definitely need medical training to understand the language used. Mayo Clinic seems to keep the descriptions on a level where I feel most people with a high school education would easily understand. I think parents whose child was diagnosed with Wilms would benefit from Mayo Clinic website. It is easy to read, direct and in a bullet point format stating the most important facts. Medscape would be better for medical professionals who are educated but maybe need more…

The ministry of the laity is the work of mission or ministry that every single person who is a believer is called to do. Each person has a responsibility to proclaim the Good News not just those who are in ministry. There are many different settings that we as believers can preach the Good News without having to be in a church or be a pastor. In the following paragraphs, I will unfold a plan that will train the laity to minister in their Home and Neighborhood Settings. Often there has been a…

-What is your greatest motivator for applying to work at Laity Lodge Family Camp? I honestly miss being around kids! This past summer I worked at a camp that I had been working at for a year now (2 summers and 1 winter camp). I knew that the upcoming summer (2017) I wanted to focus on getting a medical internship, and probably wouldn 't be able to maintain a job as a camp counselor, so this past summer would have been my last summer as a camp counselor! When my friend, Jordan Lange, told me…

There are many words to describe what Christianity means under Montini. The first words that really stood out to me were love, honor, kindness, humbleness, and respect. These are some of the most important characteristics that a Christian should obtain. God has always taught us to be loving and kind to everyone around us. Respect is something that everyone should experience in their life. The next words that stood out to me were laity, mass, service, Eucharist, God, trinity, prayer. These…

authority and responsibility, thereby increasing the tension between the Church as an institutional hierarchy and the laity as a faith based community. This tension came to a head during the Protestant Reformation, led by leaders such as Martin Luther and John Calvin. The Reformers believed that there was no scriptural justification for sacramental character. As the AVP on Ministry in the Thought of the Protestant Reformers notes, Luther believed there was no, “…metaphysical/ontological…

German Nation and The Babylonian Captivity of the Church, so we begin the interview. I plan to ask a few main questions and any follow up questions that arise as we go. Q: Immediately, you attack the general power structure of Christendom that exists between the spiritual estate and the temporal estate. You make some strong arguments against a separation between the estates. Why do you feel the church is mistaken on this issue? A: It all comes back to the scripture. I only wish to follow the…

Priesthood of all believers The priesthood of all believers was an idea that was started by Martin Luther in the 16th century and appears in Luther’s The Pagan Servitude of the Church (L. 116-17). The priesthood of all believers was the community of all baptized Christians (ibid). This concept is significant, because it was extremely radical during this time as the Catholic Church separated the clergy from the laity. With Luther’s concept of the priesthood of all believers, the clergy were on…

Nibbana requires more time and dedication than they can spare. Therefore Nibbana is not a realistic goal for lay Buddhists because they do not have the time to devote to Buddhism that is required to reach enlightenment. In Mahayana Buddhism, all people have a chance to become enlightened. This means that every Buddhist, with enough effort, has a chance of reaching Nibbana regardless of their age, gender, or social status. This makes it seem more realistic for all Buddhists to achieve…

say that reaching the level that the Early Church was on is impossible, Spener retorts that the opposite is true, seeing as how they have the same Holy Spirit working in them that the Early Church had. Pia Desideria (Part 3) – In Part Three of this work, he proposes six different ideas as tangible actions that the church can take to help improve the conditions of the church. Firstly, Spener proposes a more extensive use of Scripture. Sermons are alright, but he says that only very small…

they contribute no service in common for aiding the human race. Of this sort are our monks and priests who are largely pampered by doing nothing, excepting that they chant in the temples, for the sake of preventing weariness .” Below that were layers of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, and these classes of clergy were further divided into sub-categories of their own. Calvin wanted to do away with all this and, establish what would become known as the “Presbyterian Government”, modeled after how…