scholarly journals Prinsip Pertumbuhan Rohani dalam Efesus 5:1-21 dan Korelasinya dalam Mengupayakan Pertumbuhan Rohani Jemaat GPdI Gunung Moria Bedagai

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-106
Author(s):  
Tiur Imeldawati ◽  
Yayan Erina Br. Regar
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Growth ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
The Bible

AbstrakUntuk menghasilkan hidup sebagai seorang kristen yang berkualitas diperlukan hidup sesuai prinsip-prinsip pertubumbuhan yang terdapat dalam Alkitab. Pertumbuhan rohani jemaat harus menjadi visi dan misi gereja Tuhan. Tujuan penelitian ini ialah untuk menemukan dan memaparkan prinsip -prinsip pertumbuhan rohani dalam Efesus 5 :1- 21 yang masih relevan terhadap prinsip pertumbuhan rohani; dan untuk menjelaskan cara pengupayaan pertumbuhan rohani jemaat GPdI Gunung Moria Bedagai sesuai dengan pertumbuhan rohani Efesus 5 :1- 21; serta untuk membuktikan adanya hubungan prinsip pertumbuhan rohani dalam Efesus 5 :1- 21 yang memiliki kolerasi terhadap prinsip pertumbuhan kerohanian jemaat GPdI Gunung Moria Bedagai.Katakunci : prinsip, pertumbuhan rohani, GPdI Gunung Moria AbstractTo live a quality Christian life requires living according to the principles of growth found in the Bible. The spiritual growth of the congregation must be the vision and mission of God's church. The purpose of this research is to find and explain the principles of spiritual growth in Ephesians 5: 1–21 which are still relevant to the principles of spiritual growth; and to explain how to nurture the spiritual growth of the GPdI Gunung Moria Bedagai congregation in accordance with the spiritual growth of Ephesians 5: 1-21; and to prove that there is a relationship between the principles of spiritual growth in Ephesians 5: 1-21 which correlate with the principles of spiritual growth in the GPdI Mount Moria Bedagai church  Keywords: principle, spiritual growth, GPdI Mount of Moriah

scholarly journals Pentekostal hermeneutik

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greger Andersson
Keyword(s):  
Christian Life ◽  
Pentecostal Movement ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Pentecostal Theology ◽  
Biblical Texts

Pentecostal hermeneutics: How do Swedish Pentecostal preachers interpret the Bible? In this article I present a study of Swedish Pentecostal preachers’ interpretations and applications of biblical texts. The study is based on 19 sermons that were published on the website “Söndag hela veckan”, January 19, 2020, by churches with “Pingst” (Pentecostal) in their name. The aim of the study was to contribute to the field of Pentecostal hermeneutics through an analysis of interpretative patterns in present day preachers’ sermons. The study shows that the preachers address a putative desire for a more devoted Christian life and that they do not practice exegetics in the sense of making historical readings searching for the original authors’ intention. Instead they apply the texts to the present here and now, thereby bringing the texts from them to us. This is done by means of generalizations, abstractions, and analogies in the form of parables and narratives. In this way the studied preachers endeavor to encourage and challenge their listeners to continue searching for the richer Christian life they long for. In relation to previous studies, I claim that the studied sermons constitute a special act of interpretation that cannot be compared with academic exegetics. I also suggest that the hermeneutics in the sermons cannot be described as narrative or, for example, poststructuralist. There are some marginal similarities with interpretations of fiction, but the sermons can on the whole be described as “a distinctive interpretive activity”. The message of the sermons is consistent with previous descriptions of Pentecostal theology, except that the preachers do not emphasize the story of the Pentecostal movement and, more remarkably, that traditional eschatology hardly has any place in the sermons.

scholarly journals Bible Study of Mission and Discipleship in the Great Commission and Its Implications for Today's Christian Life

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-42
Author(s):  
Yonatan Alex Arifianto ◽  
Reni Triposa ◽  
Paulus Karaeng Lembongan
Keyword(s):  
Research Question ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Bible Study ◽  
Great Commission ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Biblical Study ◽  
Contemporary Christian ◽  
Quantitative Descriptive

Abstract Christianity in the spiritual growth and quantity of the church cannot be separated from believers who carry out the mandate of the Great Commission. But in the accompanying journey of God there is not much that can be done by believers in mission and discipleship. So with that focus and purpose of this research is to answer the research question of how the Bible study of mission and discipleship in the Great Commission and its implications for Christian life today. While the problem that occurs in this research work is how Discipleship and mission are not properly understood in the current era so that many prioritize mission but override discipleship or vice versa. But the benefits of this research are: first, the importance of mission in the Great Commission, then the importance of discipleship for believers and continuity and the last implies mission and discipleship as life priorities. To describe the biblical study of mission and discipleship in the Great Commission and its implications for contemporary Christian life, researchers used library research methods with quantitative descriptive approaches.

Reading and Revelation in Hans Frei and David Tracy

2013 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 448-465
Author(s):  
Marsaura Shukla
Keyword(s):  
Theological Method ◽  
Reading Practice ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
Christian Doctrine ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Full Participation ◽  
Hans Frei ◽  
Full Sense ◽  
Contemporary Situation

AbstractMost maps of theology in the twentieth century, particularly theology in North America, would include the delineation of revisionist theology and postliberal theology as mutually exclusive, opposed options in theological method. This article begins to challenge the contours of this received map through a comparison of David Tracy and Hans Frei, pre-eminent figures in revisionist and postliberal theology, respectively. I show that, for all their differences, both Tracy and Frei posit the reader–text relationship as the site and even in some sense the source of revelation. Their turn to reading is motivated by the perception of a certain loss or estrangement characterising contemporary religiosity. Though the scope and details of their description of the problem differ, there is a similarity in the vision of Christian life which stands in contrast to the contemporary situation. For both, their visions of Christian life can be articulated through the notion of orthodoxy, understood in its full sense as referring to a coherent, vibrant and all-encompassing immersion in Christian doctrine and practice. Engagement in proper reading practice becomes for each the entrance into and sign of full participation in religious life, analogous to the role of belief in traditional notions of orthodoxy. I suggest that Tracy and Frei represent two forms of ‘theology of ortholexis’ or ‘right reading’. The turn to reading is most obvious in Frei, who explicitly links the modern difficulty in attaining a sense of the coherence of Christian history, doctrine and lived life to a misconstrual of the nature of the biblical text which leads to a misguided reading practice. Yet Tracy also places the model of reading as conversation at the centre of his revisionist account of the possibility of a contemporary experience of the authority of the Bible and the power of the Christian tradition more generally. In these ‘theologies of ortholexis’, a constellation of modern anxieties concerning the limits and possibilities of our knowledge and experience of the divine are addressed through positing the reader–text relationship forged through proper reading practice as the place of and way to authentic revelation.

Friendship and Rivalry: The Role of Amicitia in Twelfth-Century Monastic Relations

1993 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 390-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Haseldine
Keyword(s):  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
The Bible ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Church

The proliferation of new monastic orders in the twelfth century presented the Church with a dilemma which had previously challenged the theologians of Christendom: the flowering of diversity within the unity of the faith. Just as theologians had had to resolve contradictions among the writings of the Fathers – the primary authorities for the interpretation of the Bible, and hence the elucidation of God's truth as it was perceived – so, in the new climate of monastic revival, ecclesiastical leaders had to come to terms with the existence of a variety of new interpretations of the Rule of St Benedict, and indeed that of St Augustine – the primary guides to the living of a true Christian life.

scholarly journals Genesis in King Lear

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 83-96
Author(s):  
Tom Lysaght
Keyword(s):  
Ralph Waldo Emerson ◽  
Spiritual Growth ◽  
King Lear ◽  
Fictional Character ◽  
The West ◽  
The Bible ◽  
City Of Refuge ◽  
A Minor

“If we tire of the saints, Shakespeare is our city of refuge.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson A luminary of fi ve religions, Joseph of Egypt looms larger than life. Bahá’u’lláh even likens Himself to “the Divine Joseph” (Gleanings 103:4). However, Joseph’s gradual unveiling as a minor prophet also renders him humanly relatable in ways a Manifestation of God can never be. In the West, Shakespeare and the Bible have each served as paths to knowledge, and their union a way to wisdom. That assertion proves especially true upon comparing Joseph’s odyssey of becoming with Edgar’s in King Lear. Both the prophet and the fictional character, each brother-betrayed, transform unjust adversity into psychological and spiritual growth. They each attain an exemplary sovereignty of self over and above their separate temporal kingships. A comparison of the two aff ords a deeper appreciation of Joseph’s prominent place in scripture, particularly in the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh.

scholarly journals Geloofskommunikasie in ’n pluriforme wêreld

2002 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yolanda Dreyer ◽  
P.M. Venter ◽  
T.F.J. Dreyer
Keyword(s):  
Pastoral Care ◽  
Spiritual Growth ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Theological Discourse ◽  
Symmetrical Communication ◽  
The Church ◽  
Different Levels

Communicating faith in a pluriform worldThe pluriformity of the postmodern world presents the church with challenges on different levels. The theological discourse can be based on the pluriformity inherent to biblical material, as well as on the dynamic dialectic of the great variety of theologies in the Bible. The principle of symmetrical communication serves as an example of how pastoral care to a postmodern society can be approached. By making use of narrative communication, pastors facilitate genuine intersubjectivity. Preachers adhere to the principle of symmetrical communication when their sermons are characterized by an authentic spirituality and spiritual growth.

scholarly journals Book Review: I. New Testament: The Bible and Christian Life

1906 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 614-614
Author(s):  
A. T. Robertson
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
Christian Life ◽  
The Bible

scholarly journals Spiritualitas Doa Puja Yesus Menurut Bapa-Bapa Philokalia

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 327-347
Author(s):  
Hisikia Gulo ◽  
Hendi Hendi
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Spiritual Growth ◽  
Human Soul ◽  
Church Fathers ◽  
Spiritual Discipline ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Jesus Prayer ◽  
Pain And Suffering ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Church

This article is a review of the spirituality of Jesus prayer according to the    Philokalia Fathers for the spiritual growth of the congregation in a book entitled Philokalia: The Bible of Orthodox Spirituality, this book is a book that is not widely known by believers because this topic is rarely discussed, even studied by the Church. The aim of this research is to explore that the Jesus Prayer Prayer is a spiritual discipline, its practice is to help a person control the mind of many wandering thoughts so that they can focus more on Jesus Christ. The research method is literature and then interaction with other related texts in the Bible and other Church Fathers. The results of the analysis show that the Prayer of Jesus praying for mercy from God will make someone realize that only God is the source of help in the pain and suffering of the human soul and body.

scholarly journals The Influence Of The Leadership And Character Of A Pastor On The Spiritual Growth Of The Congregation At The GPdI Alfa Omega Church.

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 8-18
Author(s):  
Setya Hari Purnomo ◽  
Daniel Ari Wibowo
Keyword(s):  
Jesus Christ ◽  
Spiritual Growth ◽  
Role Model ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The People ◽  
Christian Leader ◽  
The Church

Leadership is a task given by Jesus Christ to Christians through His Church. Leaders are needed by every human being to achieve happiness and prosperity in all fields. Thus the Church has an important role in improving leadership for the spiritual growth of God's congregation because through qualified leaders people can understand correctly how to actually follow God. With this quality leader, people can understand who and for what God created them. Seeing the existence of a congregation that always needs guidance in spiritual growth, and that requires someone who can accompany The congregation is a leader or shepherd who is often referred to as the Pastor of the congregation. And not many Christian ministers or often referred to as Congregational Pastors have these criteria. So that they cannot be an example in the lives of the people they lead. So there are criteria set out in the Bible to become a Christian leader with quality and character. A leader is someone who deserves to be a role model for others because the leader has good character and becomes a leader blessing for the church he leads.

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