Category: Church
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Methodist Episcopal Church and Primitive Methodist Church
This essay compares and contrasts two church denominations. The essay looks deeply into the origins of the primitive Methodist church and the Methodist Episcopal church. It further explores the similarities and differences in their beliefs and practices. Conclusively, this essay establishes that save the Methodist Episcopal Church is more polished and sophisticated in their approach…
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Effective Church Models: The Apostolic Harvest Church and the Team Planting
Ed Stetzer is a famous Baptist leader whose contributions are impressive and influential indeed. In his book, Planting Missional Churches, the author introduces several effective church models (Stetzer 2006). Each of them has its strong and weak points. In this discussion, two models, the apostolic harvest church and the team planting will be compared in…
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Catholic Church: Religious and Imperial Expansion Impact
Because in the early modern period, the forces of globalization put a variety of historical personalities in contact, challenges and conflicts were inevitable since they were and remained parts of human nature. Furthermore, globalization was associated with a rapid pace of social change, which, in the historical context, was very often accompanied by the increased…
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Romans and Church History: Exegetical Assessment
Table of Contents Introduction Exegetical Evaluation of Romans 7:7-25 Conclusion Bibliography Footnotes Introduction My thesis consists of two major parts and a conclusion. The first part would cover the previous interpretations of Romans 7 by famous analysts found in church history. This will help us to focus on how the traditional interpretation has affected the…
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The St. Patrick Catholic Church
Table of Contents How It Compares to My Religious The Summary of the Service Special Something The Material Expressions The Sermon Conclusion References I attended a Roman Catholic Sunday Mass Celebration at the St. Patrick Catholic Church. Parishioners visit the church that is located at Miami Beach, within Miami-Date County, Florida. It was an unforgettable…
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How the Jesus Movement Became The Church
The Jesus movement arose from Judaism in Israel; it had many followers worldwide. The Jesus movement created a legacy of God’s people; believers perceive Jesus as their Lord and wish to unite with him.1 It also involves common beliefs of followers and suggests that God’s people will possess virtue through God’s kingdom. It is necessary…
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Discipleship, Healthy Church, and Their Goals
Table of Contents Healthy Church as the Goal for Discipleship An Evaluation of the Personal Ministry Initial Steps towards Improvement of Spiritual Health Bibliography Footnotes Healthy Church as the Goal for Discipleship For a church to be spiritually healthy, the main ingredient is a close-knit community of believers, which has all the properties of the…
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Latin America and the Catholic Church
The Catholic Church has had a great influence on people in Latin America as people there have always been very religious. However, people’s attitude towards Rome as well as the Pope changed in the 1980s in Nicaragua. Socioeconomic situation in the country became intolerable for thousands of people who had to polarized society where rich…
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Republicans vs. Democrats on Separation of Church and State
Religion has always been a rather controversial topic in politics. Most Republicans, like Santorum, have a rather negative attitude towards separating it from the state. While many Democrats, however, while acknowledging its value in American society, believe that faith should not interfere with any political deeds and processes. The following text will review two articles…
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Church in Slaves’ Lives and How They Survived
Most of the enslaved people saw church and God as their only foundations of comfort and employed their religious beliefs as a basis through which they anchored their purpose in life. Methodism was the main religion in the course of the early 1900s. It began in England via the inventive dedication of John Wesley, an…