...church when he saw the need to provide his followers with structure after the Anglican Church abandoned its American believers. Since then, the Methodist church has changed its traditions to enhance its fitness in the modern society. The Church has encountered various challenges, which have both helped and hindered clarifying the way forward. John, his brother Charles, and several other students at oxford formed a group which was based on three pillars which enhanced the formation of Methodist church. These pillars include; devotion in their studies, prayers, and helping the underprivileged; these formed the pillars of Methodist church. However, the Methodism started facing challenges due to varied view from the people which at last led to its formation as a separate church (Southey 1925, 67). Three branches of American Methodism included the following; the Methodist protestant church, the Methodist Episcopal Church, and the Methodist Episcopal Church. Yet, in 1939, the three joined to form one church, resulting in a stepping stone...
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...Bishop Richard Allen by David Walter History of Christianity Course TH 605. NA Dr. Louis DeCaro November 7, 2012 Church history is intertwined with many historical dates, events, and personalities. Two extraordinary influential personalities that shaped the landscape of early church history are John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Episcopal Church and Bishop Richard Allen, founder of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. The organizational skills and leadership of John Wesley and Richard Allen is the foundation for the permanence of the Methodist denomination. John Wesley was an Anglican minister and Christian theologian. Wesley is recognized as the founding father of the Methodist faith. His conversion to Methodism occurred while attending an outdoor evangelism service conducted by George Whitfield. Wesley, an 18th Century preacher, held to Arminianism which was the prevailing faith of the Church of England. Wesley persuaded others to experience a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. The traditions of Wesley, known as Wesleyanism, gave beginnings to many powerful church movements: Methodist, Holiness, Pentecostalism, Charismatic, and Neo-charismatic. Wesley stressing evangelism purified Arminianism and the doctrine of justified by faith was reformed. John Wesley was born June 28, 1703 in Epworth, Linconshire, England. He was the fifteenth child of Samuel and Susanna Wesley. As the custom of that day, his parents provided their children with...
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...research as far back as possible of that religion. In 1968 when the Evangelical United Brethren and the Methodist church united, it created The United Methodist Church. Jacob Albright of Eastern Pennsylvania was a lay preacher who gathered followers in the early 1800s. These “Albright people” formed the Evangelical Association, later to become the Evangelical Church. The Rev. Philip Otterbein, ordained by the German Reformed Church, started the United Brethren Movement in the late 1700s. The Methodist movement began in England in the early 1700s, under Anglican Clergyman John Wesley and his followers. Wesley did not officially organize a new church but sparked a renewal movement within the Church of England. Nonetheless, Methodism spread from England to Ireland and the colonial United States. With such growth, philosophical differences and division were inevitable. In 1830, a group, largely moved by an insistence on lay representation, separated and became the Methodist Protestant Church. In the late 18th century, racism in the church caused some groups of African-American Methodists to leave and form their own denominations, the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the African Methodist Episcopal Church Zion. In 1870, another division in the parent church led to the creation of a...
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...ASSESSING CORPORATE CULTURE 1. Scheins approach to assessing organizational culture a. Strengths of scheins approach to assessing organizational culture Schein defines and describes culture as any one of many elements of organizational culture. The culture of an organization can be viewed and treated like other structures within an organization. Certain organizations such as by-laws, committees, and chain of command flow charts, may serve to answer basic questions such as “how do we interact with the external environment?” and “how do we order ourselves internally?” As an organization responds to these questions, the responses become core assumptions. These core assumptions become the frames through which the organization interprets the world round it. In place of questionnaire or instrument that utilizes typologies, Schein prefers clinical research model of assessing organizational culture. In this model of organizational culture investigation, the researcher gets much more directly involved within the organization by acting as participant observer or ethnographer. He suggests that members of the organization will more openly respond to the researcher and the investigation because the members of the organization think they have something to gain by collaborating with the researcher. Schein believes that valid data on the culture of the organization will only be collected when the researcher is perceived as the consultant who is seeking to help the organization and...
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...Healthcare is a very special endeavor, at Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare the staff is privileged to serve the community. As a faith-based organization, the organization is dedicated to providing services to all different types of people. This mission is lived each day through a team of over 10,000 plus associates who serve patients, families and visitors. The services are provided in a manner which supports the health ministries and social principles of “The United Methodist Church”. Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare is a faith-based healthcare system that, in partnership with its physicians, will be nationally recognized for delivering outstanding care to each patient, achieved through collaboration with patients and their families. Methodists’ healthcare employees serve their patients with compassionate sprit and treat others with dignity and respect. The staff at the facilities accepts and value differences among people. They listen to understand and meet the needs of patients and families. The staffs of these facilities take personal responsibility for working as part of a team to support patients and families. At MLH their brand is the promise to deliver to the patients, families, Associates, physicians, and community. The Methodist Corporation has rooted in the values of service, quality, integrity, teamwork and innovation, our culture. These values are at the core of everything that is done, from treating patients and partnering with families to hiring new Associates and...
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...Ministry and Contextualization II | | Dr. D. Kortright DavisProfessorEvaluation of My Church Experience | Jacqueline D. Rooths 2/23/2012 Jacqueline D. Rooths 2/23/2012 I have attended five churches in my life. Born and baptized in the old Israel Baptist Church. During the height of the Civil Rights movement, my family transferred membership to the Church of the Redeemer Presbyterian church in Washington DC; we relocated to Long Island in my senior year of high school and we joined Memorial Presbyterian church. As an adult, I joined Hemingway African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) church and for the past 24 years, I have been a member of Union Bethel A.M.E church. I stood on the fringes of the first four churches, observing from a far, but by virtue of age and experience I have been intimately involved in the bowels of Union Bethel A.M.E. church. Each church denomination has their body of governance. The Baptist denominations follow congregational church governance in which each individual congregation is governed autonomously, free from the direct control of any other body. The Presbyterian Church has a democratic form of city and church government called "presbyterian," meaning "governed by elders." The Presbyterian Church is a connectional church, functioning on several levels, the first level being the local church. Local churches...
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...The Democratization of American Christianity by Nathan O. Hatch (Yale University Press, 1989) Right from the beginning of The Democratization of American Christianity, Hatch immediately states that "The wave of popular religious movements that broke upon the United States in the half century after independence did more to Christianize American society than anything before or since." (pg. 3). This is the central theme of the book and Hatch does a excellent job of supporting this theme throughout with details how it started, why it started, and the effects on our American society then and now. Hatch argues that the popular religious movements during the first half of the 19th century was responsible for the Christianize of American society and was primarily carried out through the Methodist and Baptist movements in both white and black society When the Revolutionary War ended, the United States experienced unprecedented growth due primarily to a high birth rate in both free and enslaved people. These are the years in which Christianity boomed and was later referred to as the “Second Great Awakening”. Citizen rights and society changes took center stage in the development of a religious America. The American Revolution and the freedom won from it helped to get people to think for themselves and they formulated strong opinions on freedom, equality, and representation. In our American society, children were they migrating to larger cities to find work, We saw a decrease...
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...TRAVEL REIMBURSEMENT CONSTITUTION The following constitution is for the knowledge and guidelines for the Core Council members for Northeast American Diocese for MGOCSM regarding travel reimbursements. The General Treasurer is to follow these guidelines when making reimbursements to only the members of the Core Council and is responsible for all reimbursements. The Core Council consist of the following members: Vice President of the Northeast American Diocese of MGOCSM.General Secretary/Joint Secretary of the Northeast American Diocese of MGOCSM.General Treasurer/ Joint Secretary of the Northeast American Diocese of MGOCSM. I. Any travel reimbursement made from the Northeast American Diocese account is strictly for Core Council only. Unless stated otherwise by the President of the Northeast American Diocese of MGOCSM. II. Travel reimbursement is defined and falls into these following categories for eligibility. i. Parish Visiting. Any and all members of Core Council are eligible for travel reimbursement when traveling for parish visits on behalf of Core Council under these conditions. 1. Parish visits can be planned or necessary visits, but must be decided and aware by the entire Core Council. Personal visits are not covered. 2. If anybody in Core Council has to travel outside of the state, and/or travel that requires one hour or more to the destination, are only eligible for reimbursement. a) Parish visits to Canada must be approved by the President of the Northeast...
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...The Episcopal Church and My Reflections on Service Attendance History The earliest beginnings of what is now known as the Episcopal Church were rooted in the Church of England. St. Augustine of Canterbury in 597 C.E. established the formal beginnings of the church with papal authority. During the English Reformation of the 16th century, papal authority was thrown aside as the Church split and the separation of Protestantism and Catholic faith intensified when the crown of England assumed official rule of the Church. As colonization spread into the new world, so did the Anglican Church of England. Unfortunately, the Revolutionary War brought upheaval to the church and its followers. With the newly established separation of church and state, clergy abandoned the churches, returning to England and Canada. Eventually, there was also renaming of the Church as The Protestant Episcopal Church in 1783. Between 1789 and 1790, the American Church pursued the unification of all Episcopalians in the United States into one church. They adopted a constitution, set-up new canon laws, and even revised the Book of Common Prayer. Having its history in the liturgy, customs, and framework of medieval Catholicism, the Episcopal Church has maintained its connections to these early symbols of the religious experience. Their services include the Creeds and the use of the Book of Common Prayer, while asserting the primary role of the Bible. Within this one denomination there is an amalgam...
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...The Great Awakening The Great Awakening was the evangelical revival in America during the 18th Century that lasted for thirty years. The Awakening combined unsophisticated mass evangelism with the Enlightenment. In 1842, Joseph Tracey came up with the term “Great Awakening.” This widespread social movement grew because of dissatisfaction in the White American community. The community had a deterministic and formalistic Protestantism style, which denied a lot of people salvation. Basing on the fact that America was a Protestant nation; the Anglican Church purged emotional Christian Faith. Christianity at that time in America was ceremonial. The Great Awakening, following a new commitment that dictated religion in the heart- a personal and emotional Christianity, united the American people. John Edwards, a Congregationalist in western Massachusetts, began a participatory and emotional ministry that purposed to bring more followers to the church. This ministry began in early 1730s. Edwards became a remarkable intellectual personality in America whose main message was love. He believed love was fundamental for any religious experience. Remembered through his encouraging wisdom; one should do Good, live a Godly life and at the same time assist others in attaining the same. Later in the same decade, an Englishman George Whitefield together with John Wesley, carried the evangelical Christianity style to the colonies in the mainland and founded the Methodist Church. Whitefield’s sermons...
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...This essay will define the theological methodology embodying the Wesleyan Quadrilateral and some key components of how comprehensible his argument that evangelical theology is the ‘drama of gospelizing’. Included are some key areas where the Wesleyan Quadrilateral mirrors to a great extent many similarities of Birds theology and some differences. WESLEYAN QUADRILATERAL The term ‘Wesleyan Quadrilateral’ devised by Albert Outler in the 1960’s, with its fourfold reference, is a good deal more refined and ‘preserves the primacy of Scripture, profits from the wisdom of tradition, accepts the disciplines of critical reason and its stress on the Christian experience of grace, and gives it a pragmatic experience.’ These four sources lead a believer to be a worshiper and to serve God with maturity. (After all, worship is the ultimate goal of God’s Mission.) Primarily, Scripture serves as the primary source for theological reflection and is the foundation and centrepiece for the other three sources. Secondly, Tradition is considered as an experience of the witness of development and growth of faith through the nations and various cultures but notwithstanding the writings of the early church fathers. Wesley also maintained that right reason and interpretation would never result in inconsistency. Oden supports this statement, adding, until one has a right mind set and understanding is attained divine matters cannot be apprehended. Yong and Wesley agree in part on the basic Spirit grounding...
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...Alison Labowicz REL 244 Conway October 24, 2014 Methodist and Presbyterian Religion in America has become so diverse; that anyone can choose to believe in whatever religion they want without judgment. After researching both the Methodist and Presbyterian websites, they are extremely different. The Presbyterian website was mostly to promote the religion. There were a lot of links stating if you think something, stop and bring your doubts and join the congregation. There was also a church store to shop at, which seemed very different to me because a church website should be about the faith, not shopping for clothes or books. There was a small section about the faith, not as informative as I would think. While researching in the small section about faith, they had additional links to learn about the history of the Presbyterian faith. The purpose of the Methodist website was to purely inform people about the religion and give them reason to convert. The website had many links about all different aspects of the Methodist religion. The main page has a quote,” United Methodists come in all sizes, shapes, colors, dispositions, outlooks and life stories, but share a unique history and faith prospective.” The quotes gives the readers of the website a sense of acceptance and how diverse the Methodist faith is. There were also many other tabs labeled our church, our faith, our people, and our world; these tabs helped to inform me about specific practices and beliefs. ...
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...The Great Awakening generated many Biblical truths during its time and is considered phenomena to today’s church. Some of these Biblical truths are salvation and a conversion of the heart, that all men and women can be saved. We can have an understanding of Gods truth and His word. Moreover we can have freedom of sin from the guilt and shame. Furthermore mankind can be transformed by His word. Edwards’s vision went beyond salvation, redemption is another Biblical truth. Edwards also stressed that God’s grace extends to everyone that will call on Him. The manifestation of God’s grace, and the bestowal of His richest blessings. All of these Biblical truths can be found in His Holy word. These truths are so essential to the Christians Faith. This is why the church of today observed the Great Awakening. Edwards spent several months studying theology, in June 1724. rev. Solomon Stoddard was his grandfather, and Edwards grandfather felt the need that Edwards needed to help Stoddard be his assistant pastor at Northampton. Edwards was indeed called to the ministry, in February, 1727 Edwards was ordained as colleague with his grandfather. Edwards was a smart man because he had a grandfather that taught him well. Edwards also taught that justification by faith, and the doctrine of Gods sovereignty was strongly insisted upon. He also said that “Man is a sinner by birth and by choice, and that we have no moral power only God could save us from destruction”. Men were brought face to face...
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...John Fortescue Grantley Fitzhardinge was born in the inner Sydney suburb of Balmain, New South Wales, in 1886 the son of highly respected News South Wales Supreme Court Judge Grantley Hyde Fitzhardinge and his wife Julia [Yeomans], the younger brother of Grantley Hyde, Una and Julie Grantley Fitzhardinge born between 1876 and 1884, older brother of Richard born in 1888, as well as another sibling, unfortunately stillborn, in 1882. A privileged upbringing saw the young Fitzhardinge receive his early eduction at the prestigious Sydney Church of England Grammar School [Shore] in Sydney's North Shore and subsequently St Andrews College after which he went on to study Medicine at the University of Sydney's Medical School graduating as a doctor in 1909. It was during his time at Sydney University John met fellow medical student Clara Rebecca Smith in his graduating class, born in Rockhampton, Queensland, in 1886 to William Henry Smith, and inspector of schools in the Brisbane area, and Clara Rebecca Smith [Conner]. With Clara appointed as resident medical officer at the Brisbane General Hospital John also moved to Brisbane and in December 1913 they were married at the Toowong Presbyterian Church in Brisbane and they both continued to practice medicine and began a practice in Pambula on the New South Wales South Coast. Together they were appointed 'local medical officers' for the region when the second Pambula Hospital opened. While in Pambula John and Clara welcomed their first...
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...SWOT Analysis Joel Williams Columbia Southern University The business that I chose to look into is the Perry Chapel Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. I am currently the pastor of this congregation. We are in the business of taking the good news of Jesus Christ to the masses. It will be interesting to learn of our strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. It is our desire to grow the church and this information may prove to be helpful in our efforts. Our mission is to reach out to the world, preach to the unsaved, and teach the saved to serve. Our goal is to make disciples through events that form and transform. There seems to be potential for growth through marketing campaigns and grant opportunities. Our priority is to restore the old sanctuary that has been labeled condemned. Apart from that we envision our church operating apartments, community centers, and learning centers. SWOT = Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats Strengths: * We have a strong presence in our community * We own two buildings – sanctuary and fellowship hall * We feed and clothe the homeless and hungry, we also have a One Church One School Program where we partner with a school in our community and provide things that are needed for students * We are at our very best when doing outreach in our community Weaknesses: * We are a very small congregation * We only meet on the first and third Sunday of the month * The pastor lives...
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