mumgharti.blogpost.com

  Introduction Television is the source of information or communication, and media play a significant role in everyone's life. TV is one of the mass mediums. TV has become a very big part of our lives today. Basically, its duty is to inform, educate, and entertain. In this paper, I am going to write about critical evaluation and the role of television in Christian families. Television The word television is derived from the Latin word "tele," which means far and distance, and the Latin word vision," which means sight. Therefore, the television is a widely used telecommunications system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound over a distance. John Logie Baird invented the television. His first TV set was made of scissors, an old tea chest, and some sealing wax. Christian families. The Christian family is the one that lines up with biblical principles and in which each member of the family understands and fulfills their God-given role. The f...

  Introduction A survey of the Bible through the use of themes is helpful to acquire an overview of the purpose and development of the Old Testament. It soon becomes apparent that even though the Bible was written over a period of ca. 3000 years by many diverse authors, it is a coherent message about the condition of humanity and the need for a divine redeemer. We began with four chapters dealing with the Bible itself because what we know about God is revealed through the Bible. Summary Chapter One provided an overview of the history of the English Bible. It addressed the questions of how we got the Bible, what languages are used in the Bible, and the need for translating the Bible into the language of the people. Chapter Two laid out the need for God to reveal himself to us if we are ever going to know anything about him, and we saw the importance of God revealing himself understandably to man in the Bible. We are not left groping in the dark, hopelessly trying to discover God....

  Gutierrez, Gustavo. A theology of liberation: history politics and salvation , New York: Orbis books, 1988. The purpose of this book is to express the meaning and the nature of the theology liberation and to describe the reason which gave the birth of new era in Latin America. It expresses the new challenges to injustice and dependence. According to the writer the term liberation theology is the critical reflection on the Christian praxis in the light of the word of God. The writer uses the term liberation as better the explanation of the term development. In new sense the liberation can be understood as single process of salvation.   The author starts his book with an explanation of some different ways of doing theology. According to the classical point of view, the theology can be understood as wisdom and as rational knowledge. The theology as wisdom is about the meditation on the Bible and spiritual life.   The theology as rational knowledge was established as scie...

the Great commission is to make disciples. It is given by Jesus Christ before ascending to heaven.   He gave this great commission to his disciple saying that go and make disciple and baptize them in the name of triune God and teach them to obey (Matt28:18-20). It is not work of the individual Christian but is the work of local church.    in order to fulfil the Great Commission, we are given by Lord Jesus the four principles going, make disciple and baptize and teaching.    We have to be sent by someone to make disciple. the local church will send us then we will be able to go and make disciple by teaching and baptizing. In a broad sense, the Great Commission is to plant the more churches. The goal of the Great commission is to glorify God. How does the church fulfil the great commission? Church fulfils the Great Commission by teaching and baptizing and sharing the good news.   The word going does not only mean going but also sharing the good news after g...

  The elders are the primary spiritual leaders of the congregation. In the New Testament, the words for elder, oversee and pastor are used interchangeably (Eph4:11, Acts20:17,1Peter5:1-2). The qualification of the elders mentioned in Timothy2,3 and Titus. According to the timothy an elder must be faithful to his wife, live wisely, have self-control, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, gentle and not violent or drinker or quarrelsome or not be lover of money and able to manage family The responsibilities of elders The New Testament    tells us that the elders are called upon to teach and preach the doctrine of church. Their role also extends to caring for the physical needs of their congregation.   If anyone is sick in the church, they are commanded to call elders upon to pray (james5:14). The responsibilities of the elders are pastoring, mentoring, preaching, supporting, disciplining, encouraging, delegating and so on. The elders in some church may perform fi...

  The word deacons have come from the Greek word diakonos. It has several meanings like service, minister and caring for physical needs. It is translated as servant and minister sometime in the bible.so the deacons are non-other than servant and minister. Deacons are the person who is appointed to take care the physical needs of the church. both man and woman are allowed to be the deacons in the local church. the letters of the Paul to Romans16:1 says the phoebe was the deacons. There are some qualifications in order to be deacons in the church according to the scriptures (1timothy2,3 and actes6. The person must the husband of one wife, deacon must not be an addict(v3) not greedy for money, blameless, and able to manage his family well. The responsibilities of deacons There are many responsibilities of the deacons in the local church. we can find this idea of the responsibilities in acts6. in acts 6, we can see there a number of disciples were multiplying. The apostles were bus...

  Introduction The dualism is the distinction between two principles as independent of one another and in some instances opposed to one another.   For example, God is set over against some spiritual principle of evil or the material world in theology. Spirit over against matter in philosophy.   In this paper, the author is going to extract the dualism found in the Johannine literature.   There are many dualisms found in the gospel of John like truth and falsehood, light and darkness, life and death, love and hate and two worlds; world above and world below and so on. 1.       Background of the Johannine dualism 1.1. Qumran Background Some scholar has found that some dualism in Johannine literature like light and darkness (jh1:4f,3:19,8”12) truth and falsehood(jn8:44), life and death (Jn11:25). Above and below(jn8:23) are also found in the Qumran text. Leonhard Goppelt says that the Christian came out of this circle and developed this...