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Organic Leadership Training: A Training And Assessment Program For Potential House Church Leaders, David Glenn Bailey

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This action research thesis project engaged non-professionally trained Christians who worked through the early stages of Christian leadership development and house church planting. The project utilized a six-week training program in which participants hosted a prayer meeting, chose a confession, led a Bible study, designed an outreach ministry, hosted a worship meeting, and drafted future house church resolutions and a community rule. The participants engaged in a weekly targeted spiritual discipline to foster spiritual formation. Data were collected through journaling, entrance and exit questionnaires, activity guides, post-activity questionnaires, and participant-observations. The research indicates that organic leadership training inspires confidence in …

Jailhouse Religion: A Study On The Perceived Effects Of Religious Prison Rehabilitation That Affects Recidivism, William George Bumphus Iii

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This study focused on the relationship between Christian programming to prisoners and their lives when released into society. During this study, several men from The Jesus House ministry location were observed and interviewed on the lives they now lead after getting saved or finding Christ while in prison and being released to a faith-based aftercare facility. This study examined the mission and vision leaders of this ministry believed while interviewing participants and staff about their personal stories, and why they chose to help ex-offenders reintegrate into society. Furthermore, this study investigated the current rehabilitation programming to see where Christian programming …

Worship Through The Visual Arts, Terry Tripp

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Despite some Protestant churches holding the view that creating visual art is a spiritual practice of Christian worship, many still do not recognize it as a spiritual practice that Christians who are called to be visual artists should be taught and encouraged to practice. This qualitative research study focuses on the reasons that creating visual art is a spiritual practice of Christian worship and should be encouraged by church leadership. Visual art has been abused in the history of the Christian church. People have worshiped the creation instead of the Creator. Due to such unfortunate practices and abuses, some Protestant …

Investigating The Impact Of The Church Covenant On The Revitalization Of A Declining Church, Robert Gene Gifford

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The local church finds itself in crisis and the decline in attendance and membership in churches is undeniable. The thesis project establishes that there is more to being a Christian than identifying as one. To reverse the declining trajectory, churches must understand what a church is, what a church member is, and the importance of regenerate church membership. The premise of this project thesis was that if the pastor preached on the church’s historic covenant, it would serve as a starting point for the revitalization of the declining church by affecting the member’s understanding of the church and their role …

Culturally Induced Male Dominance: Addressing Breakdown Of Harmony In Asian Indian Christian Marriages, Benjamin Mulaparthi

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Marriage is an institution designed by God to fulfill the creation mandate and represent Christ and his bride in this world. Marriage is a universal social construct fulfilled in diverse ways across cultures and societies. In Asian Indian culture, marriages are mostly arranged where parents customarily choose a spouse based on the caste/ethnicity, religion, social and economic standing of prospective spouses and their families. Many Christians in India and those of Indian origin living in the United States adopt the cultural norm of arranged marriage. This DMIN action research project will explore the breakdown of harmony in Christian arranged marriages …

Christocentric Discipleship At Faith Baptist Church Of Tuscola, Allan Clyde Harris Ii

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Faith Baptist Church of Tuscola and many other churches worldwide do not currently conduct Christocentric discipleship. Discipleship, in general, is not being achieved as well. A significant disconnect between the gospel and discipleship exists today. There is ignorance regarding the gospel and its message and how believers are to fulfill the Great Commission. The disconnect is a result of the type of gospel preached and implemented. This study aims to discover a means and method to correct the ignorance of the gospel that results in improper or lack of discipleship, thus creating converts to Christianity and not disciples of Christ. …

Effective Decision-Making And Conflict Resolution For Church Leadership Teams And Governing Boards, Frederick Chambers

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Conflict is one of the primary reasons church leaders leave churches, quit vocational ministry, are terminated or are ineffective in their leadership and Christian service. Church leaders become discouraged, less effective, quit their leadership positions, or even leave congregations because of conflict or disagreements over decisions. Ineffective decision-making and conflict within the leadership team harm the ministry organization and the leaders. The problem this action research project addresses is the need for a clearly defined process of group decision-making and conflict resolution among church and ministry leadership boards. The purpose of this project was to evaluate and improve the tools …

Religious Foundations: The Educational And Conceptual Designs Of The Founding Of Mr. Jefferson's University, Schuyler Ogden

Liberty University Research Week

Graduate

Textual or Investigative

The Instability Of Fortunes: American Expansion Westward By The Conquering Of The Trans-Appalachian Frontier, Steven Sullivan

Liberty University Research Week

Graduate

Textual or Investigative

Can Feminism And Christianity Coexist According To 40 Christian Women?, Riley George

Liberty University Research Week

Graduate

Applied

The Abc Of Christian Missionary Work, Luke Walsh, Amelia Thomas, Annalisa Stoll, Briana Slaubaugh, John Chevere, Natasha Leininger, Paul Jang

Liberty University Research Week

Graduate

Textual or Investigative

How A Painter Influenced The Growth Of The Pink Tide In Ecuador, Domenica Jones

Liberty University Research Week

Undergraduate

Textual or Investigative

Sacred Samizdat: The Prevalence And Impact Of Self-Publication Among Soviet Evangelicals, Abigail Coker

Liberty University Research Week

Graduate

Three Minute Thesis

Inside Out Apologetics: Engaging Cultural Narratives In Malaysia, Xian Wei Hah

Liberty University Research Week

Undergraduate

Three Minute Thesis

Paul J. Rainey: Northeast Mississippi's Hidden Legend, Peyton Holliday

Liberty University Research Week

Graduate

Three Minute Thesis

God In Harlem: Religious Symbolism In "Sonny's Blues", Katherine Bechter

Liberty University Research Week

Undergraduate

Textual or Investigative

Songs Of Sorrow, Hope And Praise: Toward A Historical Analysis Of Negro Spirituals, Hope Dornfeld

Liberty University Research Week

Graduate

Three Minute Thesis

A Historical & Theological Analysis Of The Canonicity Of The Prophecy Of 1 Enoch 1:9 In Jude 14-15, Jake Byrd

Liberty University Research Week

Graduate

Three Minute Thesis

The Prevelence And Effect Of Pornea In Culture, Bryce Bengtson

Liberty University Research Week

Undergraduate

Three Minute Thesis

A Critical Analysis Of Thomas Oord's Open Theism And Theodicy, Olaoluwa Apata

Liberty University Research Week

Graduate

Three Minute Thesis

Piece Of Driftwood, A Riverboat, Or A Nazi Collaborator? Finland In World War Ii, Stephanie Wright

Liberty University Research Week

Graduate

Three Minute Thesis

Man Wants To Love Mankind: Disability And The Inadequacy Of England's Modern Institutions In E.M. Forster's "The Longest Journey", Lillianna Wright

Liberty University Research Week

Graduate

Three Minute Thesis

Liminal Space Theology And The Problem Of Divine Hiddenness, Isaiah B. Parker

Liberty University Research Week

Graduate

Three Minute Thesis

Freedman Founders In Antebellum Virginia: Andrew Holt And The New London African Methodist Episcopal Church, Irene Hoisington

Liberty University Research Week

Graduate

Three Minute Thesis

Torn Between The Creeds Of The Devil: The German-Finnish Co-Belligerency In World War Ii, Stephanie Wright

Liberty University Research Week

Graduate

Textual or Investigative

In The Shadow Of The Bomb: How Nuclear Doctrine Shaped And Was Shaped By Dwight D . Eisenhower's Policies, Caleb Stamp

Liberty University Research Week

Undergraduate

Textual or Investigative

The Globalization Of Mexican Cartels: How Mexico And The U . S. Governments Have Fallen Two Steps Behind, Mackenzie Casey

Liberty University Research Week

Undergraduate

Textual or Investigative

In The Absence Of Tears : Female Prostitution In The Holocaust, Evelyn Loftin

Liberty University Research Week

Undergraduate

Textual or Investigative

The Atomic Bomb: A Violent Means Of Peacemaking, Eric Cashion

Liberty University Research Week

Undergraduate

Textual or Investigative

Martha's Vineyard: The Island With The Flying Hands, Kaitlyn Misirian

Liberty University Research Week

Undergraduate

Textual or Investigative