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Book Review: Spiritual Leadership In A Secular Age: Building Bridges Instead Of Barriers By Edward H. Hammett, Lloyd W. Rodgers

Great Commission Research Journal

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Book Review: The Facilitator Era: Beyond Pioneer Church Multiplication By Tom Steffen, Matthew L. Pierce

Great Commission Research Journal

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About The Great Commission Research Network, Alan Mcmahan

Great Commission Research Journal

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The Faithful Flyer, 05-01-2011, University Of Dayton. Campus Ministry

Chapel Bulletins

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Let God's Word Be Alive, 2011 - Event Recap, Anne Zaki

CICW Conferences, Workshops, and Seminars

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Implementing A Discernment Phase For Those Nominated In The Shepherd Selection Process At The Cinco Ranch Church Of Christ, Aaron Walling

Doctor of Ministry Theses and Dissertations

This doctor of ministry thesis presents the results of a project that implemented a discernment phase for those nominated in the shepherd selection process at the Cinco Ranch Church of Christ. Occurring in the fall of 2010, this project involved nominees in a series of six one-hour, thirty-minute sessions designed to establish the theological foundations for shepherding and to explore its practical expression at Cinco Ranch. For the theological component, this project primarily utilized Ephesians 4:11-16, and for the practical side, it incorporated group interactions with those serving as shepherds along with the review of guiding leadership documents. The project‟s …

Dance And Contextualization In The South Pacific Islands - Encounters With Adventist Christian Faith, Jennifer Jean Jones

Human Subject Research Archive

This dissertation investigated the attitudes and perceptions of the students and faculty towards dance for religious events at Pacific Adventist University (PAU) in New Guinea. It aimed to help in leading a climate for change within PAU towards a model for contextualizing traditional dance for God's Kingdom ministry. A directed study of the biblical precedents regarding dance served as a foundation to the rationale of engaging in dance for worship. Some sources in Adventist Church theology on dance in relation to their relevance in the South Pacific was discussed. The role of traditional dance and how it influences worship music …

Curriculum For Preaching In The North Caucasus Bible Institute, Vitaliy Bak

ATS Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to design curriculum and teach a course in advanced homiletics for a group of Master of Arts (MA) in pastoral ministry students in the North Caucasus Bible Institute in Prokhladnyy, Russia, in order to increase their understanding of the theory and practice of preaching, to improve their integration of homiletical theory into the students’ practice of preaching, and to evaluate the effectiveness of the training.

The curriculum examined theology of preaching, the role of the preacher, the role of the Holy Spirit in preaching, the principles of biblical interpretation, preparation, communication, reflection, and preaching …

The Faithful Flyer, 04-21-2011 To 04-24-2011, University Of Dayton. Campus Ministry

Chapel Bulletins

Special Triduum Edition

The Faithful Flyer, 04-17-2011, University Of Dayton. Campus Ministry

Chapel Bulletins

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The Faithful Flyer, 04-10-2011, University Of Dayton. Campus Ministry

Chapel Bulletins

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The Faithful Flyer, 04-03-2011, University Of Dayton. Campus Ministry

Chapel Bulletins

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Calvin Theological Journal (Vol 46 No 1 - April 2011), Calvin Theological Seminary

Calvin Theological Journal

Articles: A Break with Anti-Judaic Exegesis: John Calvin and the Unity of the Testaments by G. Sujin Pak - 7 / Metaphysics and Justification in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Reformed Theology by John V. Fesko - 29 / A Brief History of Heaven in the Writings of Jonathan Edwards by Robert Caldwell - 48 / The Glory of Spiders and Politics by John Bolt - 72 / Experience, Expression, Understanding: Gerardus van der Leeuw's Phenomenological Method by Richard J. Plantinga - 81 / The Seven Days of Creation by James W. Skillen - 111 / Lost Keys: The Absolution in …

Crafting A Congregational Narrative For The College Church Of Christ In Fresno, California, Jason W. Locke

Doctor of Ministry Theses and Dissertations

This thesis describes a ministry project in the College Church of Christ in Fresno, California. In this project I led the congregation through a narrative crafting process in order to clarify the church’s identity and increase its capacity for mission. In recent decades, the College Church moved away from some of its founding characteristics yet failed to clarify a new sense of identity. It subsequently had difficulty acting with a unified sense of purpose and instead moved increasingly toward fragmentation.

Data for crafting the new narrative came from three weeks of group interviews. My research team conducted these interviews in …

Making Friends Down Under: The Beginnings Of Lds Missionary Work On Thursday Island, Queensland, Australia, 1961, Fred E. Woods

Faculty Publications

The year 2011 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the beginnings of LDS missionary work on Thursday Island. On this jubilee occasion, it is fitting to ask how the message of Mormonism came to this tiny Australian isle and how American Mormon missionaries adapted to a region far removed from their culture and homeland. Using journal entries, letters, and interviews from the first three full-time elders to preach on the island, it is possible to sketch a portrait of what these young men experienced.

Discerning A Vocational Theology Of Marriage For The Smyrna Church Of Christ, Daniel F. Camp

Doctor of Ministry Theses and Dissertations

The goal of this project was to discern a vocational theology of marriage for the Smyrna Church of Christ in Smyrna, Tennessee. Through a group discernment process, the participants studied Genesis 1-3 and 2 Corinthians 5 as a basis for understanding God’s design for marriage at creation, the effects of sin on the vocational aspect of the marriage relationship, and the call of Christ for husbands and wives to participate in the resurrection life through the ministry of reconciliation. At the end of the discernment process, the participants articulated a theology statement for the church that examined our current context …

The Faithful Flyer, 03-20-2011, University Of Dayton. Campus Ministry

Chapel Bulletins

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The Faithful Flyer, 03-27-2011, University Of Dayton. Campus Ministry

Chapel Bulletins

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The Faithful Flyer, 03-13-2011, University Of Dayton. Campus Ministry

Chapel Bulletins

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The Nature Of Evangelism In Missional Churches, Russell York

Doctor of Ministry

Evangelism has long been at the heart of God's mission for the church. The arrival of the twenty-first century brought with it renewed interest in both the mission of the church and evangelism, a practice central to the church's mission. A leading factor in this resurgence is the decline in church attendance over the past several decades. The most influential factors leading to the decline in attendance are culture changes from modernism to postmodemism and from a Christendom society to a post-Christian pluralistic society. These culture shifts resulted in the diminishing influence of the church and non-Christians' often harboring hostile …