Evangelical Covenant Church

The excerpt from “Diversity Explosion” by William Frey talks about the racial transformation and the expansion of diversity. Frey analyzes how and why these modifications are developing, also how they will have an influence in the future. Moreover, he adds on the political side of this demographic innovation. Hispanics, Asians, African Americans, and mixed racial backgrounds are all regarded as the minorities. These minority groups are increasing, meanwhile the white population is dwindling.

Early Colonial American society during the 17th and 18th centuries is characteristically bound by strong religious beliefs of Christianity. The New England inhabitants from Britain, who have established their respective colonies in the Americas, have brought with them their cultural histories; thus, this culture had been further developed in the new country to strengthen its new identity and culture as the American society. In colonial America, two religions dominated its cultural history: Puritans on one hand, and the Quakers, on the other. Puritanism was borne from the creation of a religion that seeks to fuse and at the same time,

It is a common fact in today’s society that many persons believe that religion has brought about more division rather than unity, more harm rather than good. The Christian Church is primarily known for its numerous separations. Christianity is partitioned into several different denominations, of which the Methodist Church and the Baptist Church form a part of. Both of these denominations do contain similarities as well as differences that set them apart. Some of these similarities include they both believe in the Triune God, meaning three persons in one; the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

(1) After completing part three of Molly Worthen’s Apostles of Reason, the section on Bonhoeffer brought back great memories. My father not only loved Kierkegaard, but Bonhoeffer as well. As a young adolescent, I found my father’s copies of The Cost of Discipleship as well as his Letters and Papers from Prison. I plodded through them but was really inspired by his style and gentle spirit.

Sociological criticism broadens the horizon in the study of the New Testament. Though it is a relatively newer method, its significant influence and contributions encourage former methods. It is a component or rather acts as an enhancement to historical critical methods. This method had emerged as a pragmatic methodological enterprise. Since 1970 the use of the social sciences has played an increasingly prominent role in Gospel studies.

Do you remember an evangelist sometime ago saying something about some Born Again Christians being dumb?" ME: "Yes, I do. He said that he had been enlightened to know that if a Born Again Christian sows seed faith money into a good ministry that Our Father will prosper him or her financially. Then this person also went on to say that a Born Again Christian who reads the Bible and does not see this truth is a DUMB PERSON."

INTRODUCTION The authority of the Scripture is fundamental to evangelical faith and witness. But at the same time, not all evangelicals affirm the inerrancy of the scripture. Biblical inerrancy affirms that the biblical text is accurate and totally free from error of any kind. The difficulty in affirming the inerrancy of scripture does not seem to be so much on the spiritual and moral teachings of the Bible, however, the difficulty perhaps seems to emerge on the issue of accuracy in other disciplines such as history, science and acheology.

As the need for orthodoxy became paramount, democratic religion transformed itself in the late 19th century, and the eighth and final chapter catalogues many practical issues. The Baptist church grew phenomenally, from “under 1 million in 1870 to 3.6 million in 1926,” as people flocked in multitudes to Baptist churches. The main woe that churches consistently voiced is the lack of discipline, as many Baptist churches lazed on disciplinary matters. Wills notes “the man who paid $100 toward the pastor’s salary “can go father into the world without anger to his church relations, than a poor man.” ” Money, pride, and overlooking offenses all contributed to the problems that the churches in this time recognized.

RIIINNNGG!! The buzzing alarm sounded at 6:30, and I frantically jumped out of bed eager to begin my first missions trip. I scurried down the stairs with my bags and jumped into the car en route to Eureka High School to meet the team I would be experiencing my journey with for the next week. When I arrived at the school, a few friends of mine were waiting, but most of the people I had never seen in my life. My heart started to pound against my chest as I suddenly became nervous, second guessing myself on deciding to come on the trip in the first place.

The European missionaries contributed in forming racial grouping between the Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda that led to genocide. Furthermore, from the beginning the missionaries did not unite the two races in Rwanda; in fact, Roman Catholic missionaries were seen as experts in the field of the complicated social relations of the Rwandan population. The Christians were observing everything as the Catholic churches built separate schools for Hutus and for Tutsis following the Hamitic theory of race origins, which taught that the Tutsi were a superior race. When the genocide started the church could not be set apart since some leaders of the church contributed in encouraging the Hutus to kill the Tutsis as they deliver the Tutsis who took refuge