This project’s central focus is the broken police mentality that was intensified with the death of Dr. King and the law and order election of President Richard Nixon in 1968. The projects aim is to get people’s feelings about the historical brokenness of the law enforcement comm…
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A Project Document submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Ministry, at Virginia Union University
This thesis develops a practical theology for mission with Millennials. This theology engages in an Empirical Task as it gathers data; engages in an Interpretive Task as it reviews the multi-disciplinary conclusions drawn for that data; engages in a Normative Task of identifying…
The African American male plays a vital role in the formation and practice of Black religious life in rural families and communities. Black men have helped shape the cultural consciousness and moral values of the Black family. Historically in the rural Black church, the Black ma…
The paradoxical disconnect in religious and spiritual formation between the church and persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) is the impetus for this research project. I suggest a paradoxical disconnection because of the ironic relationship that unfortuna…
The purpose of this project was to take a team of individuals from The Well Baptist Church in Venice, FL and lead them through the process of designing a strategy to develop leaders at the church. The Well is a church plant with limited leaders and a continual strain on the time…
There continues to be strong interest in the arena of Christian formation, which is primarily concerned with developing mature Christians in light of shifts in contemporary views on religion and its relationship to ethics. The field of Christian formation has many facets one of …
It is God’s work and our mission to be intentional about reaching those in our world, to bless others with the blessing that we have received in Christ. For ValleyView Alliance Church (VVAC), this means reaching out to the released time students who attend Bible Adventure in its…
In 1963 Dr. King observed that America was most segregated on Sunday mornings when its churches were filled with worshippers. My dissertation investigates the response of Milwaukee’s white urban Protestant churches to the Second Great Migration, which led to tremendous growth in…
This paper documents the history and conservation of the official flag of the Protestant Episcopal Church c. 1940. The flag is now kept in the archives of The George Mercer, Jr. Memorial School of Theology on the grounds of The Cathedral of the Incarnation, Garden City, NY. The …
The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of empowering leadership on overall church health. This quantitative study evaluated data collected by Natural Church Development from Assemblies of God churches in the United States between 2006 and 2016. Examining results …
The exercise of power in all its many aspects cannot be disassociated from social conflicts. This, of course, applies to the hierarchical management of the Church. The laity and some clergy have opposed ways that power is exercised in the Church; consequently, these two groups h…
Supersessionism is the view that the church is the new or true Israel that has permanently replaced or superseded national Israel as the people of God. This dissertation intends to make a contribution to theology by offering a systematic presentation and analysis of the doctrine…
This study investigates “the separation of the church and the synagogue in first-century Rome.” We speak of the “church” and the “synagogue” because it is only in their concrete forms that Christianity and Judaism can be investigated historically. We refer to “first-century Rome…
This ministry project studies middle-size church peculiarities, organizational theory, systems theory and theories of change in order to identify a process of change that is both faithful to Christian concepts of community and effective in helping a church move through significa…
This dissertation examines Tutu's demand that the church in South Africa must be an instrument of justice and reconciliation for the oppressed and the marginalized. It advances the argument that Tutu's demand for the church to be involved in the struggle against apartheid is bas…
This study has identified conceptual issues for the development of receptor-oriented communication strategies among young, educated, urban Hui (YEU-Hui) Muslims in a China's northwestern cities in order to achieve culturally relevant churches in those areas. The study includes a…
The centrality of II Corinthians 3:7–18 in the Christian imagination first emerged in 2nd century exegetical debates concerning the inspirational status of Hebrew Scriptures. Arguments marshaled by Irenaeus and Tertullian affirmed that the whole Old Testament was to be considere…
This project seeks to help associate pastors of pastoral care in mega-churches mobilize others in caring ministry while recognizing the effects of consumer culture on pastoral care. This includes drawing all clergy staff into pastoral care ministry and challenging their resistan…