Equipping The Church Leadership Of Montague Baptist Church To Reconcile Inactive Church Members

1989 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel S. Mccoy
Keyword(s):  
Church Leadership ◽  
Church Members ◽  
Baptist Church ◽  
The Church

City Outreach

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica M. Barron ◽  
Rhys H. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Church Leadership ◽  
Public High School ◽  
Church Members ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Status ◽  
Congregation Members ◽  
Before School ◽  
The City ◽  
The Church

Although Downtown Church is still a fairly new congregation, it has developed two significant outreach ministries. The church sponsors a team in a community basketball league— made up of congregation members and some external “ringers” who are terrific players but not regular church members. And it sponsors a “before-school” support program at a public high school in a low-income, crime-ridden neighborhood in the city. Both of these programs are similar to efforts made by many congregations, but they also reveal how the church leadership struggles to handle issues of race and inequality beyond its own walls. Here, “racial utility” becomes apparent, as the pastoral leadership often uses black members to help it establish credibility, either with others in the city basketball league or with the public school system. At the same time, many of the church members involved with the programs recognize that even as they are being used for their race, they are in turn using the status of the white leadership to gain entrance into situations they might not have been able to achieve on their own.

scholarly journals Hervormers wat ons nie mag vergeet nie

1997 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 356-364
Author(s):  
J.M. Van der Merwe
Keyword(s):  
Church Leadership ◽  
Dutch Reformed ◽  
Church Members ◽  
New Approach ◽  
The Past ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
Look Back ◽  
The Church ◽  
Dutch Reformed Church

Church Reformers we should not forget. On thefifth of November 1980, the Reformed Day Witness was published in Die Kerkbode by eight theologians of the Dutch Reformed Church. The Witness, as it became known, soon had storm clouds gathering in the church, because of it's content. It was a wakeup call to the church about it's prophetic call, it's guidance to government and it's role in reconciliation. Many ministers and members of the church supported The Witness while church leadership was mainly against it. In the end The Witness was silenced but the seed were sown. Many ministers and church members now knew that the Dutch Reformed Church had to take a new approach with regard to it's prophetic call and it's role in society. When we look back over what happened in the past seventeen years, history tells us that these men were prophets of their time, men that we must not forget.

scholarly journals Understanding the impact of COVID-19 in the spiritual life of the Church community

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thandiwe Nonkululeko Ngema ◽  
Zanele Gladness Buthelezi ◽  
Dumisani Wilfred Mncube
Keyword(s):  
Church Leadership ◽  
Spiritual Leadership ◽  
Pastoral Ministry ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
Generation Process ◽  
Data Generation ◽  
Church Members ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Spiritual Impact ◽  
The Church

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the world in extra-ordinarily negative ways. Its impact has been felt in government circles, families, communities and churches globally. Spiritual leadership together with church members or congregants has also suffered a great deal. The pandemic has successfully disorganized societies and religious communities. Its spiritual impact has been felt by church leaders and congregants alike. This study investigated the spiritual impact COVID-19 has imposed on church leadership and congregants. It also explores how some church leaders performed their pastoral ministry under COVID-19 conditions. To achieve the set objective, a qualitative methodology and interpretive paradigm were adopted. In-depth individual interviews with church leaders and church members from Christian churches were used to inform the study. Ten churches that operate within the Esikhaleni raternity, in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, under uMhlathuze municipality participated in the data generation process. The study comprised a sample size of four church leaders and eight church members from ten churches. A total number of 12 twelve heterogeneous individual participants were purposively selected. Findings revealed that the prevalence of COVID-19 led to lockdown restrictions and as such, church house closure impacted the church family positively as well as negatively. The study recommends that church leaders be proactive in accommodating change and equip their congregants accordingly. Secondly, churches should adapt to multi-staff ministry where lay people are actively involved in educating congregants about pandemics in general and how to cope spiritually. Third, it is argued church leadership should embrace virtual and internet ministry so as to continue to offer spiritual support to congregants.

scholarly journals Kerkleiding in die een en twintigste eeu

1997 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Beukes
Keyword(s):  
Church Leadership ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
First Century ◽  
Church Members ◽  
Post Modernism ◽  
New Thinking ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Church

Church guidance in the twenty-first century. The view of church members relating to the roll of the church, roll overloading and different roll expectations have caused new thinking in the church leadership with a view on the twenty first century. This new thinking is further extended (enlarged) by the nature of post-modernism and various systems of thought. The mission of the church, the priesthood of the laity and the above mentioned factors have resulted in a specific spirituality, knowledge and various skills in regard to the church leaders with a view on the twenty first century.

scholarly journals Efektifitas Pemuridan KEKAL dalam Membimbing Gereja Menuju Kedewasaan Rohani

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 118-129
Author(s):  
Orles Orles
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Spiritual Maturity ◽  
Church Members ◽  
Baptist Church ◽  
Congregational Growth ◽  
Effective Role ◽  
Church Service ◽  
The Church

The church is a collection of believers sanctified by God and allied in the name of Jesus. The church was founded by the Lord Jesus. Therefore, service to the church must not be ignored. Congregational growth to spiritual maturity must be the focus of church service. Discipleship of Small Bible Groups (KEKAL) is one of the strategies of the Pontianak Anugerah Baptist Church to guide the congregation towards spiritual maturity. The problem is that there has been no attempt to evaluate the effectiveness of ministry through KEKAL discipleship in guiding congregations to grow spiritually mature. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to see the effectiveness of KEKAL discipleship in guiding the church to grow. The research method used in this research is descriptive-quantitative. The data collection is done by using a closed questionnaire. Through this research, it was found that the KEKAL discipleship program had an effective role in guiding the church to spiritual maturity. This small group discipleship strategy can be one of the strategies for the church to guide church members to mature in Christ.Gereja adalah persekutuan orang-orang percaya yang dikuduskan oleh Allah dan bersekutu di dalam nama Yesus. Gereja didirikan oleh Tuhan Yesus. Oleh karena itu, pelayanan terhadap gereja tidak boleh diabaikan. Pertumbuhan jemaat kepada kedewasaan rohani harus menjadi fokus pelayanan gereja. Pemuridan Kelompok Kecil Alkitab (KEKAL) adalah salah satu strategi Gereja Baptis Anugerah Pontianak untuk membimbing jemaat menuju kedewasaan rohani. Permasalahannya adalah belum ada usaha untuk mengevaluasi keefektifan pelayanan melalui pemuridan KEKAL dalam membimbing jemaat bertumbuh dewasa secara rohani. Oleh sebab itu, tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk melihat efektifitas pemuridan KEKAL dalam membimbing jemaat bertumbuh. Adapun metode penelitian yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah deskriptif-kuantitatif. Pengumpulan datanya dilakukan dengan menggunakan angket tertutup. Melalui penelitian ini ditemukan hasil bahwa program pemuridan KEKAL berperan secara efektif dalam membimbing jemaat menuju kedewasaan rohani. Strategi pemuridan kelompok kecil ini dapat menjadi salah satu strategi bagi gereja untuk membimbing anggota jemaat agar dewasa di dalam Kristus.

Vernacular American Landscape: Methodists, Camp Meetings, and Social Respectability

1994 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Robins
Keyword(s):  
Cape Cod ◽  
Church Members ◽  
White Mountains ◽  
Martha's Vineyard ◽  
Home State ◽  
American Landscape ◽  
Camp Meetings ◽  
Martha’S Vineyard ◽  
Religious Landscape ◽  
The Church

In 1822, from his Conway home in the shadow of New Hampshire's White Mountains, one Dr. Porter surveyed the nation's religious landscape and prophesied, “in half a century there will be no Pagans, Jews, Mohammedans, Unitarians or Methodists.” The prophecy proved false on all counts, but it was most glaringly false in the case of the Methodists. In less than a decade, Porter's home state became the eighth to elect a Methodist governor. Should Porter have fled south into Massachusetts to escape the rising Methodist tide, he would only have been buying time. True, the citizens of Provincetown, Massachusetts, had, in 1795, razed a Methodist meetinghouse and tarred and feathered a Methodist in effigy. By 1851, however, the Methodists boasted a swelling Cape Cod membership, a majority of the church members on Martha's Vineyard, and a governor in the Massachusetts statehouse.

Pengaruh Media Sosial bagi Tugas Penggembalaan Imam pada Era Revolusi Industri 4.0

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 190-212
Author(s):  
Avelinus Moat Simon
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Church Members ◽  
The Church

In the age of Industrial Revolution 4.0, human life is influenced by various of sophisticated technologies. One of them is social media that increasingly develop, and take some impacts in human life. The fact is there are some priests ignore their pastoral duty and this takes the result that the church is separated. Many of priests don’t live up to their calling as good shepherds. They cannot recognize the church members who entrusted to them by a bishop. This study focus on the influence of social media for a priest’s duty. The research method used in the issue is a qualitative method by using literature approach. I found out that a priest is a shepherd for members of catholic community. A priest ordained by a bishop to continue Christ duty. Social media can become a tool and an equipment for a priest to develop the spiritual life and ministry. The attendance of a priest is the presence Christ as a good shepherd for His sheeps.

An Extraordinary Confession

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael P. DeJonge
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Church Members ◽  
Nazi Regime ◽  
Jewish Ancestry ◽  
The Church

If the church decides to seize the wheel, to speak the directly political word, Bonhoeffer writes, then the church will find itself in statu confessionis. This chapter examines the phrase status confessionis to shed further light on Bonhoeffer’s idea of the church’s directly political word (the concern of Chapter 7). The phrase originates in a sixteenth-century episode where the emperor, with help from accommodating religious leaders, forced changes in order and rites on the Lutheran churches. The phrase status confessionis came to be seen as the battle cry of those who resisted these changes, the gnesio-Lutherans. In adopting this language, Bonhoeffer identifies a parallel between the sixteenth century and 1933, when Hitler and the Nazi regime threatened to force changes in church order (especially concerning church members of Jewish ancestry) on the church with accommodation from church leaders.

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