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Christian Worship: A Psychological Study, Jonas M. Berkey

Graduate Thesis Collection

Both Psychology and Christianity are concerned with the well-being or wholeness of the human person. Since God is no respecter of persons, then all men are alike in their basic nature. Psychology bears out this conclusion. Therefore, upon the foundation of this basic agreement psychology may be used effectively in helping to establish a fundamental agreement for the effective worship of Christian men. The scope of this treatment will consider only three of the basic acts of Christian worship - prayer, baptism and the Lord's Supper.

Reaching The Unsaved Through The Sunday School, Robert S. Bowers

Western Evangelical Seminary Theses

The purpose of this study was to show the need for evangelism in the Sunday school. The objectives of this study were: 1) to provide a plan to find the lost, 2) to show how the lost may be enlisted in the Sunday school, 2) to show ways to encourage regular attendance of all scholars, and 4) to win the lost in the Sunday school sessions or prepare them through Bible study and encourage church attendance so they may be won through other channels of the church.

The Basic Conflicts Of Christianity Versus Communism, James W. Zottnick

Western Evangelical Seminary Theses

The issue presented in this study, briefly stated, is: What are the fundamental differences between Christianity and communism, which stand in bold contrast today?

The Christian would dare not be asleep during such agitated times as these. Various answers are being propounded to meet the Red Menace, but unless they contain Christ and the Christian dynamic, they will ultimately fail. To be uninformed or misinformed, is to be ill-equipped for the present struggle.

A Study Of The Relation Of Buildings And Equipment To The Teaching Process In The Children's Division, Glen E. Harris

Western Evangelical Seminary Theses

The Sunday school has come a long way in its comparatively short history. It has come a long way both in philosophy and housing. Because it is an organism of living persons, it has grown, developed, expanded, changed. With the passing of the years, there has been growing a greater reverence for the unfolding personality of the learning person. As a consequence, the pupil has come more and more to the forefront. Less attempt is being Fade to impose arbitrary teaching procedures as well as the content of a fixed curriculum upon the learner. A greater effort is being made …

Sunday School Supervision In The Local Church With Particular Reference To The Oregon Yearly Meeting Of Friends Church, M. Gene Hockett

Western Evangelical Seminary Theses

Following the regular routine of the Sunday School program with little plan for improvement is the mistake often made in the Sunday School. Almost no time or effort is taken to evaluate the present procedures. The writer desired to see the Sunday Schools of the Oregon Yearly Meeting receive proper supervision that they might operate as efficiently as possible.

The yalue of supervision was illustrated by Vieth when he stated:

Factories and commercial concerns recognize that at best they will run below one hundred percent efficiency. A corps of workers is employed to supervise what others are doing. These... do …

A Biblical Study Of Marriage, Paul H. Pike

Western Evangelical Seminary Theses

Excerpt: "The Church is somewhat divided on the issue of marriage and its related problems. The problem presented here is: What is the Biblical teaching as to God's standard for marriage?"

A Study Of Personal Evangelism In The New Testament, Delbert W. Dow

Western Evangelical Seminary Theses

Excerpt: "The business world has recognized the importance of a person to person contact in order to acquaint the customer with and to sell his product. If they didn't obtain this method from the New Testament personal evangelists, they well might have done so, for this method was very successfully used in New Testament times."

Reaching The Unsaved Through The Sunday School, Robert S. Bowers

Western Evangelical Seminary Theses

The problem was to present a study of the nature, purposes, values and operation of Evangelism in the Sunday School. It, was the writer's purpose to present a picture of Sunday School Evangelism and its necessity as a regular procedure along with its relation t o the church and the Sunday School. The purpose is stated: To find and present the necessary steps before evangelism and show the absolute necessity of the inclusion of evangelism in the Sunday school organization .

Sunday School Supervision In The Local Church With Particular Reference To The Oregon Yearly Meeting Of Friends Church, M. Gene Hockett

Western Evangelical Seminary Theses

Following the regular routine of the Sunday School program with little plan for improvement is the mistake often made in the Sunday School. Almost no time or effort is taken to evaluate the present procedures. The writer desired to see the Sunday Schools of the Oregon Yearly Meeting receive proper supervision that they might operate as efficiently as possible.

A Study Of The Problem Of Synergism In Relation To Salvation, Lynn H. Ostrander

Western Evangelical Seminary Theses

"What must I do to be saved?" is a question which might well arise in the mind of an earnest seeker of salvation who has been under the influence of various types of preaching. This is due to the fact that there are two main and many mediating theories concerning the process by which salvation is attained. One of these major theories is that God is entirely responsible for man's salvation and the man himself can contribute nothing toward it. The other main theory is that man is responsible for accepting or rejecting the salvation that God offers. Between these …

A Proposed Program Of Better Training For Wesleyan Teachers, Thomas G. Porter

Western Evangelical Seminary Theses

Church History has revealed that the very existence and influence of a given religious organization has depended largely upon the force and efficiency of its educational system. In the final analysis, the upward and increasing trend to liberalism and modernism in this century has been a direct result of an efficient educational program. On the other hand, the fundamental truths that Christ wanted the people of all generations to hear, accept, and live by have also been handed down to the present through a process of education. In both cases, effective teaching has been a result of effective teachers; effective …

A Study Of The Relation Of Buildings And Equipment To The Teaching Process In The Childrens' Division, Glenn E. Harris

Western Evangelical Seminary Theses

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David Lipscomb's Doctrine Of The Church, Herman L. Barnett

Graduate Thesis Collection

David Lipscomb, editor of the Gospel Advocate for almost half a century, was a man of wide influence. He was intensely devoted to the cause of Christ. In the estimation of his admirers he "had a keener and deeper insight to the meaning of the Holy Scriptures and of God's dealings with the race than any other one man in all Christendom." Though such a judgement is open to question, the man becomes a fit subject for such a study as we have attempted to make.

A Study Of The Historic Theories Of The Atonement, William F. Bromley

Graduate Thesis Collection

In one of his letters to the church at Corinth, the apostle Paul sets forth as one of the basic facts of the primitive Gospel that "Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures. "l In the same passage, he asserts that it is by this Gospel that men are saved - that is that there is a definite relationship between the death of Christ and the salvation of men. To define this relationship has been a task that has occupied the thinking of some of the greatest minds of the ages since the day that Jesus of Nazareth …