Download or read book One Assembly written by Jonathan Leeman and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many churches are switching to the multisite or multiservice models to manage crowded sanctuaries due to growing attendance. This solution seems sensible in the short term, but too often churches adopt this model without taking into consideration what the Bible says about it. Illuminating the importance of physical togetherness as a way to protect the gospel, this book argues that maintaining a single assembly best embodies the unity the church possesses in Jesus Christ. Jonathan Leeman considers a series of biblical, theological, and pastoral arguments that ask us to stop and examine intuitions or assumptions about what a church is. He reorients our minds to a biblical definition of church, offering examples of churches that have thrived with a single service at a single site and compelling alternatives for those looking to solve the complications that come with a growing church.
Download or read book Pastors and Immigrants written by Nicholas Tavuchis and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Welcoming the Stranger written by Matthew Soerens and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Relief staffers Matthew Soerens and Jenny Yang move beyond the rhetoric to offer a Christian response to immigration. With careful historical understanding and thoughtful policy analysis, they debunk myths about immigration, show the limits of the current immigration system, and offer concrete ways for you to welcome and minister to your immigrant neighbors.
Download or read book Pastors and Immigrants written by Nicholas Tavuchis and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pastors and Immigrants written by Nicholas Tavuchis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Christians at the Border written by M. Daniel Carroll R. and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hispanic Old Testament scholar Daniel Carroll brings biblical theology to bear creatively on the current immigration conversation with an eye to correcting assumptions on both sides of the issue.
Download or read book Churches and Charity in the Immigrant City written by Alex Stepick and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to being a religious country--over ninety percent of Americans believe in God--the United States is also home to more immigrants than ever before. Churches and Charity in the Immigrant City focuses on the intersection of religion and civic engagement among Miami's immigrant and minority groups. The contributors examine the role of religious organizations in developing social relationships and how these relationships affect the broader civic world. Essays, for example, consider the role of leadership in the promotion and creation of "civic social capital" in a Haitian Catholic church, transnational ties between Cuban Catholics in Miami and Havana, and several African American congregations that serve as key comparisons of civic engagement among minorities. This book is important not only for its theoretical contributions to the sociology of religion, but also because it gives us a unique glimpse into immigrants' civic and religious lives in urban America.
Download or read book Welcoming the Stranger Among Us written by Catholic Church. United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and published by USCCB Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for both ordained and lay ministers at the diocesan and parish levels, this document challenges us to prepare to receive newcomers with a genuine spirit of welcome.
Download or read book New Religious Immigrants in the Great Plains written by Jan E. Todd and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2019 in Kansas and Nebraska, 113 predominately white United Methodist churches were served by 84 foreign-born pastors, an increase of 223% since 2013. This is a new phenomenon in the region as the Great Plains Annual Conference has trained, vetted and deployed foreign-born pastors to mostly white locations at greater rates since 2013. I am interested in the relationships and level of trust that develops between the mostly white community and the foreign-born pastor, indicating their reception. I began my inquiry with the assumption that the immigrant-native relationship develops differently between foreign-born pastors and the mostly white communities as compared to other immigrant-native relationships and/or native and native-born pastor relationships in similar settings. This study was designed to observe, record, analyze and describe a baseline case for the purpose of future comparison to similar appointments in order to build theory that pertains to the explanation of how these relationships develop and their possible effects on society. Grounded in Georg Simmel's phenomenological theory utilizing "the Stranger" as ideal type and Nicolette-Manglos Weber's ideas on the role religion plays in the reception and assimilation of migrants, I used a qualitative mixed methods approach, acting as participant observer in both congregations in order to apply theory. Applying the aspects of the merchant/stranger and native community to the foreign-born pastor-mostly white community relationship under the social location of the local church, I gathered data through the tools of observation, artifact collection and in-depth interviews, to look for themes that might indicate what kind of relationships had developed. Finding three connecting themes between the two parties in two different locations, I was able to identify how the overarching values of faith, governance and family aided the development of relationships for some to the level of personal trust. Comparing these three themes, two mechanisms indicating how personal trust developed in this case were identified as multiple mutual discoveries and the development of the foreign-born pastor as a non-threatening global-guide. Keywords: ethnography, immigration, phenomenological theory, religion, trust
Download or read book No Longer Strangers written by Eugene Cho and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does evangelism look like at its best? Evangelism can hurt sometimes. Well-meaning Christians who welcome immigrants and refugees and share the gospel with them will often alienate the very people they are trying to serve through cultural misconceptions or insensitivity to their life experiences. In No Longer Strangers, diverse voices lay out a vision for a healthier evangelism that can honor the most vulnerable—many of whom have lived through trauma, oppression, persecution, and the effects of colonialism—while foregrounding the message of the gospel. With perspectives from immigrants and refugees, and pastors and theologians (some of whom are immigrants themselves), this book offers guidance for every church, missional institution, and individual Christian in navigating the power dynamics embedded in differences of culture, race, and language. Every contributor wholeheartedly affirms the goodness and importance of evangelism as part of Christian discipleship while guiding the reader away from the kind of evangelism that hurts, toward the kind of evangelism that heals.
Download or read book Christian Pluralism in the United States written by Raymond Brady Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-11-13 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent immigrant Christians from India are changing the face of American Christianity. They are establishing churches with Orthodox, Protestant and Catholic rites. This book is a comprehensive study of these Christians, their churches and their adaptation. Professor Williams describes migration patterns since 1965, and how the role of Indian Christian nurses in creating immigration opportunities for their families affects gender relations, transition of generations, interpretations of migration, Indian Christian family values, and types of leadership. Contemporary mobility and rapid communication create new transnational religious groups, and Williams reveals some of the reverse effects on churches and institutions in India. He notes some successes and failures of mediating institutions in the United States in responding to new forms of Christianity brought by immigrants.
Download or read book Immigrant Pastoral written by Susan Dieterlen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immigrant Pastoral examines the growth of new Mexican heritage communities in the Midwest through the physical form of their cities and neighborhoods. The landscapes of these New Communities contrast with nearby small cities that are home to longstanding Mexican-American communities, where different landscapes reveal a history of inequality of opportunity. Together these two landscape types illustrate how inequality can persist or abate through comprehensive descriptions of the three main types of Midwestern Mexican-American landscapes: Established Communities, New Communities, and Mixed Communities. Each is described in spatial and non-spatial terms, with a focus on one example city. Specific directives about design and planning work in each landscape type follow these descriptions, presented in case studies of hypothetical landscape architectural projects. Subsequent chapters discuss less common Midwestern Mexican-American landscape types and their opportunities for design and planning, and implications for other immigrant communities in other places. This story of places shaped by immigrants new and old and the reactions of other residents to their arrival is critical to the future of all cities, towns, and neighborhoods striving to weather the economic transformations and demographic shifts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The challenges facing these cities demand the recognition and appreciation of their multicultural assets, in order to craft a bright and inclusive future.
Download or read book Churches and Immigrants written by Hans Mol and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Religious Aspects of Swedish Immigration written by George Malcolm Stephenson and published by Beaufort Books. This book was released on 1969 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A happy pastor for a small town immigrant church written by Sunsik Min and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation was written to suggest proposals for pastors of small-town immigrant churches, in order to build healthy churches with the appropriate vocation.
Download or read book A Moving God written by Mechteld Jansen and published by LIT Verlag. This book was released on 2008 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Attitudes and Postures of White Evangelical Male Pastors on Immigration in Relation to Their Congregations and Denominations written by Juan Carlos Tellez and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National-level studies have consistently found white evangelicals to be the group most opposed to immigration in the United States. Evangelical organizations, as a result, have made public pronouncements urging a more compassionate approach to immigrants. These statements from organizations like the National Association of Evangelicals (2009) and the Evangelical Immigration Table (2011), as well as several denominations, have been aimed at persuading rank-and-file evangelicals of adopting a more welcoming attitude to immigrants. At the juncture of pro-immigrant denominational statements and the restrictive views of rank-and-file evangelicals are local pastors. This qualitative study investigates the attitudes and postures of white evangelical pastors on immigration in relation to their congregations and denominations. This research was conducted by interviewing seventeen pastors through three focus groups. The pastors minister as part of denominations that have made public pronouncements on immigration. It was determined that, while there is diversity of views on immigration, most pastors report a strong presence of restrictive immigration views in their congregations. The data points to the right-white evangelical ideo-theological framework (RWEITF), which is representative of many congregants and is characterized by restrictive immigration views. Pastors position themselves vis-a-vis these restrictive attitudes in different ways. The Pastoral Posture Model (PPM) describes four postures pastors assume in relation to their congregants. The “supporter” displays a posture of active support for the RWEITF. The “sympathizer” displays a posture of passive support for the RWEITF. The “prompter” displays a posture of passive resistance to the RWEITF, a position more in line with denominational statements. The “Reformer” displays a posture of active resistance toward the RWEITF and is characterized by actions that are consistent with what national-level evangelical organizations and denominations have urged. Pastoral posture is dependent on a variety of factors including the pastors ́ background, biblical convictions, and the level of congregational resistance. Denominational statements were found to have limited impact on pastors and congregants’ views on immigration.
