The Role Of Preaching In Church Revitalization At University Baptist Church In Ames, Iowa

This article is dedicated to Professor Sarel van der Merwe as missiologist and what he had done for the cause of the missio Dei in South Africa. The role of the laity in the missio Dei was one of the most significant developments followed by most church denominations. The priesthood of believers was the reformational perspective rediscovered by Martin Luther. The reformed tradition rediscovered the role of the laity in missions, which the Baptist church tradition has now developed most extensively in terms of missions. The Catholic Church has recognised the apostolicity of the laity in a decree called ‘Apostolicam Actuositatem’ at the Second Vatican Council in response to the crises of the church. The charismatics gave recognition to the role of the laity through the spiritual gifts of each believer. The role of the laity and of the priesthood of believers has its biblical precedent and foundation in 1 Peter 2:5, 9 and Ephesians 4:1–16. The contribution of Ephesians is that it provides the church with a missional mandate for the ordinary believer to participate in the missio Dei –, a mandate that has to be rediscovered in every age. The priesthood of believers provides an orientation for a biblical missional ecumenism.

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Development Of The Worship Leader Role Of The Celebration Choir At Shirley Hills Baptist Church Through An Intentional Process Of Reflection, Study And Choral Community Interaction

10.2986/tren.077-0106 ◽

2006 ◽

Author(s):

James D. KOONCE

Keyword(s):

Baptist Church ◽

Community Interaction ◽

Leader Role

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Polish Evangelical Churches Contribution to Building a Civil Society

Forum Pedagogiczne ◽

10.21697/fp.2015.1.16 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 213-225

Author(s):

Karolina Czech

Keyword(s):

Civil Society ◽

Social Engagement ◽

Common Good ◽

Church Membership ◽

Baptist Church ◽

History Of Christianity ◽

Evangelical Churches ◽

History Of ◽

The Common

The article contains considerations concerning a role of Churches and religion in building the civil society, bringing the readers closer to the specific movement in the history of Christianity which is evangelicalism and to Churches and communities that have grown out of this movement. The author concentrates mainly on Poland, pointing out that for Poles faith and Church membership is still a very important thing. In the article there are presented two examples of evangelical Churches, i.e., the Pentecostal Church in Poland and the Baptist Church in Poland; their interest in the common good and social engagement as well as their effort put into educating children to be responsible citizens has been underlined.

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Vaughan’s Rebellion

Atlantic Bonds: A Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from America to Africa ◽

10.5149/northcarolina/9781469631127.003.0007 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Lisa A. Lindsay

Keyword(s):

West Africa ◽

African Diaspora ◽

White Supremacy ◽

Civil Service ◽

The Other ◽

Baptist Church ◽

New Era ◽

Mission Church ◽

New Generation

By the late 1880s, freedom as prosperity and autonomy was coming under threat in Lagos. Increasing numbers of European personnel pushed Africans out of their posts in the civil service and foreign-owned commercial firms, limiting opportunities for elite Africans. White leaders of the mission churches sought to reverse decades-old policies and monopolize control over African congregations. Within the Baptist church—with which Vaughan had been associated since coming to Yorubaland thirty years earlier--a new generation of white missionaries subjected him and others to racist condescension. This chapter considers the responses of Vaughan and his contemporaries to the new era of white supremacy in Lagos. In 1888, Vaughan and several others formed the Native Baptist Church, the first non-missionary church in West Africa; they were followed by separatist movements in other denominations. They linked their struggles to those against slavery, referring to the mission church as a barracoon and their subordination to white missionaries as bondage. Understanding the new racism as part of a wider, Atlantic world phenomenon, Vaughan and the other Christian rebels drew on a classic diasporic strategy of separation from white establishments. Thus, this chapter illustrates the role of the African diaspora in changing developments within Africa.

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Recovering The Role Of The Congregation In Sunday Worship: A Curriculum For Adult Members Of Central Baptist Church In Jonesboro, Arkansas

10.2986/tren.089-0045 ◽

2003 ◽

Author(s):

Richard T. HUNT

Keyword(s):

Baptist Church

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Where the Black Christ Suffers and the Politics of Black Tragic Space in Chicago

10.5406/illinois/9780252039928.003.0007 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Kymberly N. Pinder

Keyword(s):

Black Church ◽

Gospel Music ◽

Black Churches ◽

Baptist Church ◽

Primary Documents ◽

Integral Role ◽

Historic Landmark ◽

Black Christ

This conclusion reflects on the conflation of empathetic realism and tragic space inside and outside black churches in Chicago. It examines complex issues of ownership, displacement, and tragedy that make the black church fulfill many needs regarding refuge and racial affirmation. It considers various sites of black tragedy in Chicago, citing as an example Pilgrim Baptist Church which burned to the ground on January 7, 2006, resulting in the loss of historically significant murals, a historic landmark, and many primary documents concerning the birth of gospel music. The author places this loss in the context of “tragic tourism,” arguing that it is part of a lineage of “tragic Black spaces” in Chicago that also connect to other such sites across the country and across history. She notes that many black churches have been set on fire due to racial intimidation. She ends the discussion by emphasizing the integral role of black suffering in the activation of empathy and the diverse and shifting publics for its imagery.

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Painting the Gospel Blues

10.5406/illinois/9780252039928.003.0002 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Kymberly N. Pinder

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

African Americans ◽

The United States ◽

Gospel Music ◽

Black Churches ◽

Baptist Church ◽

Black Empowerment ◽

The Church ◽

Underlying Theme

This chapter examines William E. Scott's murals at Pilgrim Baptist Church in Chicago, including his 1936 Life of Christ series. Originally a synagogue designed by Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler in 1891, Pilgrim became the home of one the country's most politically influential black churches when sold to the congregation in 1920. In the 1930s Thomas A. Dorsey introduced blues singing into regular church services, making Baptist the birthplace of gospel music and one of the first megachurches in the United States. The chapter considers the support provided by Junius C. Austin, a prominent advocate of social change and black empowerment, to Scott's goals to create images that promoted black pride through a very conventional, representational painting style at Pilgrim Baptist Church. It also discusses the role of Scott and Dorsey in creating a visually and sonically inclusive atmosphere at the church. Finally, it highlights rebirth or resurrection, politically and socially, as the underlying theme of much of the rhetoric about the future of African Americans during the period.

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“Comforts and mercies, losses and crosses”

Oliver Hart and the Rise of Baptist America ◽

10.1093/oso/9780197506325.003.0010 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 199-221

Author(s):

Eric C. Smith

Keyword(s):

Rhode Island ◽

Transitional Period ◽

Domestic Sphere ◽

Baptist Church ◽

Role Of Women ◽

George Whitefield

The first half of the 1770s was a major transitional period for Oliver Hart. Many of the most important figures in his life, including his hero, George Whitefield, and his wife, Sarah, died. (Sarah’s death provides an opportunity to reflect on the role of women in the colonial Baptist South and on the attraction they found to the Baptist faith.) At the same time, important new figures were assuming a larger role in his life, including his understudy Edmund Botsford and the promising young Separate Baptist preacher Richard Furman. Hart struggled in the domestic sphere during the period of his widowhood, contending especially with his unruly son, John, away at Rhode Island College. He was relieved to find a new wife in Anne Marie Sealy Grimball, a member of the Charleston Baptist Church in whose conversion Hart had been instrumental some years before.

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