scholarly journals The application of Ephesians 4:11 in the recent missional debate with reference to Scripture

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry Van Wyk
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Local Church ◽  
Missional Church ◽  
The Church

The church is prominent in the letter to the Ephesians in the sense that the absence of the local church is highlighted with all the attention focused on the headship of Jesus Christ over everything, and therefore also over the church. The textual reference to Ephesians 4:11 refers to a range of gifts which require interpretation, especially in light of the recent appeal to the church to be a missional church as a contemporary direction for the present-day church.

scholarly journals Fungsi Gembala Jemaat dalam Suksesi - Refleksi atas Kepemimpinan Yesus pada Model Gereja Otonomi

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-85
Author(s):  
Yohanes Parapat
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Local Church ◽  
Autonomous System ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Leadership Succession ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Central Function ◽  
The Church

The pastor of the congregation, especially in churches that use an autonomous system of government, has a central function in preparing his successor. However, it is not uncommon for failures to occur after the implementation of succession due to the lack of functioning of the church pastor in preparing the cadre that also candidate who wil l replace him. This study aims to gain an understanding of the leadership functions that Jesus Christ performs particularly in preparing His disciples to become His substitute leaders. This research used a qualitative approach with a literature study method. The analysis is processed and reflected using the analysis description writing method. By reflecting on the leadership of Jesus Christ in preparing His successor through a session, the pastor of the church is expected to carry out the function of equipping, assigning, performing evaluation, delegating as well as exemplifying in spiritual life. By using Jesus' leadership approach, local church pastors can achieve maximum results in a leadership succession. AbstrakGembala jemaat khususnya yang berada dalam organisasi atau sinode dengan sistem pemerintahan gereja otonom memiliki fungsi sentral dalam mempersiapkan pengganti dirinya. Meskipun demikian tidak jarang terjadi kegagalan setelah pelaksanaan suksesi akibat kurang berfungsinya gembala jemaat dalam mempersiapkan kader yang juga merupakan kandidat yang akan menggantikannya. (Tujuan Penelitian) Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendapatkan pemahaman fungsi kepemimpinan yang dijalankan Yesus Kristus khusunya dalam mempersiapkan murid-murid-Nya sebagai pengganti (suksesor). (Metode Penelitian) Penelitian menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan metode studi kepustakaan. Analisis diolah dan direfleksikan dengan menggunakan penulisan deskriptif. (Hasil / Pembahasan) Dengan merefleksikan kepemimpinan Yesus Kristus dalam mempersiapkan pengganti-Nya melalui sebuah suskesi, gembala jemaat diharapkan menjalankan fungsi memperlengkapi, penugasan, evaluasi kinerja dan pendelegasian disamping keteladanan dalam kehidupan rohani. (Simpulan / Kesimpulan). Dengan menggunakan pendekatan fungsi-fungsi dalam kepemimpinan Yesus yang memiliki relevansi dengan pengembangan kandidat suksesor, gembala jemaat dapat mencapai hasil yang maksimal dalam sebuah suksesi.

scholarly journals CATEQUESE E EXPERIÊNCIA DE DEUS EM JESUS CRISTO

2010 ◽  
Vol 41 (115) ◽  
pp. 317
Author(s):  
Juan Antonio Ruiz de Gopegui
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Local Church ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Faith Sharing ◽  
Experience Of God ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
The Church

O processo da renovação catequética adquire cada dia consciência mais clara de que a catequese deve ser obra de toda a comunidade eclesial. É na Igreja local que o cristão deve aprender a dizer a própria fé com palavras e gestos, como expressão de uma experiência pessoal de Deus. A confissão da fé cristã só pode nascer do reconhecimento da voz do próprio Deus na figura de Jesus Cristo transmitida pela Igreja. Reconhecer Deus em Jesus Cristo significa encontrar nele o Sentido pleno não apenas da própria vida, mas da vida do mundo todo. Para as comunidades cristãs serem lugar privilegiado da socialização da fé, a eucaristia dominical, enquanto mistagogia ao Mistério de Cristo, deverá ser o centro da catequese. Tirar as consequências disso levaria a Igreja a rever, em profundidade, a configuração das comunidades locais e consequentemente dos ministérios.ABSTRACT: The process of catechetical renovation acquires each day a clearer consciousness that catechism should be the work of the entire ecclesial community. It is in the local Church that the Christian should learn to articulate one’s own faith with words and gestures, as expression of a personal experience of God. The perseveranconfession of the Christian faith can only emerge from the recognition of Gods own voice in the figure of Jesus Christ transmitted by the Church. To recognize God in Jesus Christ means to find in him the full meaning not only of one’s own life, but of the life of the whole world. For the Christian communities to be the privileged place of faith sharing, the Sunday Eucharist, while mystical expression of the Mystery of Christ, will have to be the center of the catechism. To obtain the consequences of this would bring the Church to review, indepthly, the configuration of the local communities and consequently the configuration of the ministries. 

scholarly journals The Regime of the Synodality in the Eastern Church of the First Millennium and Its Canonical Basis

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 29-52
Author(s):  
Nicolae Dură
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Local Church ◽  
Canonical Basis ◽  
Eastern Orthodoxy ◽  
First Millennium ◽  
The Church

The synodal form of organisation — sought and established for His Church by Her Founder, that is, by Our Lord Jesus Christ, and affirmed by His Apostles — was also expressly reaffirmed by the canonical legislation of the Eastern Church of the first millennium. By adapting the form of administrative-territorial organisation of the Church to that of the Roman State — sanctioned by the canons of the Ecumenical Synods (cf. can. 4, 6 Sin. I Ec.; 2, 6 Sin. II Ec.; 9, 17, 28 Sin. IV Ec.; 36 Sin. VI Ec.) — in the life of the Eastern Church several types of synods appeared, starting with the eparchial (metropolitan) synod of a local Church and ending with the patriarchal synod, both still present in the autocephalous Churches of Eastern Orthodoxy.

KOŚCIÓŁ KATOLICKI WOBEC ZAGADNIENIA MAŁŻEŃSTW MIESZANYCH RELIGIJNIE W KONTEKŚCIE MIGRACJI

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-45
Author(s):  
Piotr Wojnicz
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Canon Law ◽  
International Level ◽  
Holy Trinity ◽  
Mixed Marriages ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Catholic Church

The increase in migration at the international level also increases the number of religiouslymixed marriages. The Catholic Church advises against entering into such marriages because thisissue refers to the laws of God and the question of preserving faith. The Catholic Church approvesof mixed marriages in terms of nationality or race because belonging to the Church is primarilydetermined by faith in Jesus Christ and baptism in the name of the Holy Trinity. Independentlyof canon law, progressive social secularization is noticeable on that subject matter.

Utilizing Brief Spiritual Assessments with Clients who belong to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 30-44
Author(s):  
Gordon Limb ◽  
David Hodge ◽  
Richard Alboroto
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
The United States ◽  
Assessment Instrument ◽  
Latter Day Saints ◽  
Church Culture ◽  
Spiritual Assessment ◽  
Mental Health Settings ◽  
Consistency Strengths ◽  
Growing Churches ◽  
The Church

 In recent years social work has increasingly focused on spirituality and religion as key elements of cultural competency.  The Joint Commission—the nation's largest health care accrediting organization—as well as many other accrediting bodies require spiritual assessments in hospitals and many other mental health settings. Consequently, specific intervention strategies have been fostered in order to provide the most appropriate interventions for religious clients. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the fourth largest and one of the faster growing churches in the United States.  In an effort to facilitate cultural competence with clients who are members of the Church of Jesus Christ, a brief spiritual assessment instrument was developed.  This mixed-method study asked experts in Church culture (N = 100) to identify the degree of cultural consistency, strengths, and limitations of the brief spiritual assessment instrument. Results indicate that the framework is consistent with Church culture and a number of practice-oriented implications are offered.

Empire and the Johannine Epistles

2017 ◽  
Vol 114 (4) ◽  
pp. 542-557
Author(s):  
Kenneth L. Waters
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
The Face ◽  
Mission Field ◽  
The Church ◽  
Do So

In what ways are the Johannine Epistles a response to empire ideology and propaganda? These Epistles proclaim a more complete and correct cosmology, a greater Savior and soteriology, a better pedagogy, a truer doctrine, a sounder koinōnia, and a more nurturing paterfamilias; moreover, they do so while indicting schismatics, who, in the view of the elder, represent the face of the empire. Although the resurrection and ascension of Jesus Christ drive the elder’s witness and ministry, he must still shape his message to counter the encroachment of empire in the church and on the mission field.

Eating with penitence: An essay on the local church eating responsibly

2020 ◽  
Vol 117 (4) ◽  
pp. 453-463
Author(s):  
David W. Priddy
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
Local Church ◽  
Industrial Agriculture ◽  
Specific Program ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Local Congregations ◽  
Ecological Concern ◽  
The Church

In this essay, I pose the question, “How might local congregations participate in food reform and agricultural renewal?” Given the problems of industrial agriculture and the wider ecological concern, this question is pressing. Instead of advocating a specific program, I focus on how the Church might address this question while keeping its commitment to being a repentant Church. First, I discuss the significance of attention and particularly the habit of attending to the Word and Sacrament. This posture, I argue, maintains the Church’s integrity, preventing it from merely branding itself or relying on its own resources. Second, I briefly explore the association of eating with the mission of the Church in the New Testament, highlighting the repeated theme of judgment and call to humility in the context of eating. Third, I draw out the importance of continual remorse over sin. This attitude is essential to the Church’s vocation and rightly appears in many historic liturgies. I argue that this posture should extend to the question of eating responsibly. Penitence demonstrates the Church’s relationship to the wider world and testifies to the source of the Church’s own life, the Holy Spirit, who does the work of renewal.

Breaking Depression’s Silence within the Church through Friendships

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 103-115
Author(s):  
Robert McBain
Keyword(s):  
Local Church ◽  
Medical Model ◽  
Church Community ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Typical Response ◽  
Doctor Of Ministry ◽  
History Of ◽  
Meaning And Purpose ◽  
The Church ◽  
Rich History

This article explores the silent nature of depression in the local church and suggests that developing Jesus-style friendships can break the silence. It adapts the author’s Doctor of Ministry (DMin) research project, which explored the silent nature of depression in the local church and Christianity’s interpretive healing qualities. This article argues that the church has a rich history of helping sufferers interpret their experiences of depression, but changing worldviews, the growth of the modern medical model, and the effectiveness of pharmaceuticals monopolized health and shoved the church to the periphery of the conversation. Silence became the church’s typical response, which promoted an attitude of stigma and avoidance. The article suggests that developing Jesus-style friendships can help break the silence because social or religious barriers do not restrict such friendships. This model of friendship is crucial for giving depression sufferers a sense of identity, meaning, and purpose within the church community.

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