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The Use Of Small Groups As An Element Of Discipleship In The Fairhaven, Flint, Michigan, Seventh-Day Adventist Church, Walton H. Rose

Doctor of Ministry Projects

Problem. Various problems surround discipleship today. Many churches have members, but there is little commitment to teaching and training members in small groups, with the result that there is a lack of following Christ in word and deed. Furthermore, discipleship is not well defined, understood, or practiced in the church. The church's mission (Matt 28:19-20) is in trouble because too often churches win and baptize, but do not teach and train. The sad result is lack of reproduction and multiplication.

Method. The program development method was used in this project. Two sources of literature were considered: (1) literature dealing with …

A Plan For Strengthening Expository Preaching By Korean Seventh-Day Adventist Pastors, Chongho Yang

Doctor of Ministry Projects

Problem

Adventist churches in Korea urgently need expository preaching to act as a counterbalance to the strong traditional emphasis on topical preaching. The greatest problem of preaching in Adventist churches of Korea seems to be a lack of biblical content. Complicating this is a widespread failure to correctly apply hermeneutical principles to biblical exposition.

Method

Two taped sermons preached by each of seven selected Seventh-day Adventist preachers in Korea were collected and analyzed in the light of the criteria established for authenthic expository preaching. The criteria were obtained from the review of biblical and current literature.

Results

It was found …

Breaking Down Cultural Barriers To Personal Evangelism , Chester Herbert Harris

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Review Of Wilfred Cantwell Smith, What Is Scripture: A Comparative Approach, Daniel L. Smith-Christopher

Theological Studies Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

Maybe A Lawyer Can Be A Servant; If Not…, Thomas L. Shaffer

Journal Articles

Consider the way we American lawyers learn about the relationship between the church and the law: This grand constitutional and legal order we propose to serve is unfolded before us and built up in our minds and hearts; it comes to us out of multi-volume sets of course books, and, like the gods of Canaan, it comes to us as religious: Thomas Jefferson said America was God's New Israel; David Hoffman, the grandfather of legal ethics in America, spoke of the law as a temple and of us lawyers as priests who served in the temple; Law Day speakers commonly …

Book Reviews, Paul Anderson, T. Vail Palmer, Jr.

Quaker Religious Thought

No abstract provided.

Texts Are Always With You: Christians And Their Bibles, R. S. Sugirtharajah

Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies

What Christians call the Bible is a cultural, ideological, ritual, and spiritual depository of a people who live din West Asia. Although Christians perceive it as the Book (in spite of the implied plural meaning in Greek), it is a composition of several books, embodying the collective and individual divine-human encounters of two communities - Jews and the early converts to the Jesus movement in the Mediterranean region. The Bible has two testaments, to which the adjectives "Old" and "New" are prefixed. These adjectival prefixes give the impression that the one is outdated, archaic, and no longer applicable, and the …

The Sacred Times Prescribed In The Pentateuch : Old Testament Indicators Of The Extent Of Their Applicability, H. Ross Cole

Dissertations

The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the sacred times prescribed in the Pentateuch and to determine if the Old Testament itself contains indicators of the extent of their applicability. "Applicability" refers primarily to ongoing applicability throughout time. However, whether a sacred time will be universally applicable in the future may be directly related to whether it was ever meant to be universally applicable in the first place. Accordingly, this study entails a close examination of many different features of the Pentateuchal sacred times and their applicability.

Chapter 1 reviews relevant literature and describes the present investigator's methodology. On …

The Presence Of The Covenant Motif In Amos 1:2-2:16, Reinaldo W. Siqueira

Dissertations

The presence and use of the OT covenant(s) in the book of Amos has been a highly debated issue for the last century among OT scholars. The dissertation attempts to address this issue through an exegetical study of the "Oracles Against the Nations" of Amos 1:2-2:16. This pericope of Amos was chosen because it has played a central role in the argumentation that denies the existence of any notion of covenant in the book.

Chapter 1 introduces the controversy that surrounds the issue of the presence or absence of covenant in Amos, while chapter 2 surveys the scholarly debate and …

Choosing Life In The Midst Of Death: Holocaust Metaphors In Pastoral Counseling, David Robert Kaplan

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Theological Purpose Of First Timothy As An Ethic For The Universal Church, Edward W. Raby Sr.

ATS Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Living Word: Sharper Than Any Two-Edged Sword, Edgar Krentz

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

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The theme for this year's Institute on liturgical Studies-"Grace Upon Grace: Living Word."-describes what should enliven and move every action among God's people. Not only doxological actions, but didactic, kerygmatic, evangelistic, parenetic-you name it, every thought and action should live in and arise out of the living word.l But just what is that living word? The adjective is striking, not the one we usually attach to the term "word" in either its garden variety meaning or its theological sense. Where do you find a living word? The classical answer for many is obvious: in the prophetic and apostolic Scriptures. …

Life Sketch: Gerhard F. Hasel, 1935-1994, C. Mervyn Maxwell

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.

Proposals For A Canonical Biblical Theology, Gerhard F. Hasel

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.

Becoming Children Of God: John's Gospel And Radical Discipleship [Review] / Wes Howard-Brook., Pedrito U. Maynard-Reid

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.

Auss Honors Gerhard Hasel, Nancy Jean Vyhmeister

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.

A Bibliography Of The Writings Of Gerhard Franz Hasel, Michael G. Hasel

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.

Biblical Theology And The Interpretation Of Messianic Texts, Walter C. Kaiser Jr.

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.

Accessing Theological Readings Of A Biblical Book, Elmer A. Martens

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.

The Remnant And The New Covenant In The Book Of Jeremiah, Kenneth D. Mulzac

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.

Does Proverbs Promise Too Much?, Bruce Waltke

Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)

No abstract provided.