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The Development Of An Exceptional Brethern Ministers Scale For The California Psychological Inventory, James Ralph Hutchison
The Development Of An Exceptional Brethern Ministers Scale For The California Psychological Inventory, James Ralph Hutchison
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
The purpose of this study was to develop an Exceptional Brethren Ministers Scale for the California Psychological Inventory. This scale was designed to differentiate between effective and ineffective parish pastors in the Church of the Brethren.;The procedure involved the identification of two groups of parish clergy in the Church of the Brethren. These groups were formulated using a Pastoral Effectivenes Rating Form, (PERF). A list containing 160 items was circulated among a group of experts in ministry in the Church of the Brethren for their appraisal. The experts rated each item according to its efficacy in discriminating between effective and …
A Statistical Model For Seventh-Day Adventist White English-Speaking Church Growth In The United States, Des Cummings
A Statistical Model For Seventh-Day Adventist White English-Speaking Church Growth In The United States, Des Cummings
Dissertations
Problem. Until 1983 there was no statistical model for projecting church growth among white English-speaking Seventh-day Adventist churches in the United States. The purpose of this study was to identify a forecasting model based on the variables that were gathered from pastor and local church reports. Thegeneral hypothesis was that a significant predictive relationship existed between some combination of report variable/factors and the rate of church growth or decline. This hypothesis was subdivided into four specific hypotheses.
Method. One hundred forty-five churches were randomly selected from the white English-speaking churches in the United States. The financial, membership, pastor, and Sabbath …