How can congregations prepare our young people for the challenges of an unknown future? I came into this project with three assumptions: the key to preparing our young people for the future lies in identity formation; the ...

This paper will explore the beauty and wonder of music and theology in the Kannada Christian lyrics written and composed on various doctrinal themes from the Holy Bible by the eminent lyricists, musicians and pastors of ...

<p>As the church has moved into a new century, today's pastors have needed to ask themselves: If our ministries are going to be effective in this 21 st century context, what should those ministries look like? In other words, what shape should pastoral ministry take today? It's a necessary question to ask when pastors want to do more than simply 'do their jobs' (which traditionally includes preaching, teaching, pastoral care, administration, and, more recently, leadership) and thereby 'run' the church, but instead want those pastoral activities to make an increasingly transformative difference in people's lives. The fundamental issue in this project, in other words, is that of ascertaining what sort of shape pastoral ministry needs to take that will most likely lead to significant spiritual impact. The premise in this document is that effective pastoral ministry generally will not happen in church settings where a pastor does most of his or her work in isolation from the other members of a congregation, and where the congregation in turn sees the pastor's work as disconnected from what they are called to do. Instead, transformative pastoral ministry will happen within a congregational web, where pastors work collaboratively with members of the church, enlisting the power of relationships, maximizing the use of the spiritual gifts of each member, and harnessing the spiritual energy that is unleashed by the creation of ministry teams....

The purpose of this study is to examine the reform of education in 16th century Geneva by the Protestant reformer John Calvin and to show its application to the context of mission in Japan. Before Calvin committed himself ...

This thesis examines the problem of identity as both a missiological challenge and opportunity among Japanese students who come to the United States, become Christians, and then return to Japan. The research relies on three ...