This study examines the brokenness of the inner cities and the need for spiritual transformation. As the population in the urban cities continues to grow, there are also many devastating consequences that affect the lives of the residents. Issues such as gang violence, poverty, …
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Previous research on religion and the body has focused on the influence of religion on body image. This study examines the effects of specific spiritual disciplines (i.e., prayer, fasting, solitude, journaling, service, worship) on body image (i.e., self- objectification, body a…
The author presents the lack of spiritual formation or soul care as a problem in ministry that exists in the African-American churches in America. The issue of spiritual formation/soul care, as part of the discipleship ministry, is alien in many churches, particularly in African…
Church planting is gaining momentum around the world. Many believe it to be the best and most effective way of reaching the unchurched. As important as this venture is to the expansion of God’s kingdom, there is something lacking in the training resources available to church pla…
The project director studied the personal spiritual disciplines and fulfillment of spiritual responsibility in the home of a select group of fathers from FBC Plant City. The director allowed for an honest look at a select group of father’s spiritual disciplines through a pre-stu…
The project director sought, through this project, to equip select members of First Baptist Church in the spiritual disciplines of Bible intake and prayer to facilitate spiritual growth. The project director believed the key to the revitalization of the church came through the s…
The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to understand how ministers in a southwestern city describe how the intergenerational interactions they had as adolescents, with spiritually mature adults, may have influenced their discovery of a calling to the ministry and …
Every Christian should be growing spiritually throughout his life until his Lord takes him home to heaven to be forever in fellowship with Christ. Discipleship and Christian growth should be the norm for believers, but church leaders have not found this to be the case. A discipl…
While New Hope Christian Church has a stable membership, it does not appear that New Hope consistently reflects their Christian beliefs outside the church. It is the author’s thesis that the development and implementation of a retreat to engage the leadership of New Hope Christi…
Traditional churches have struggled with a decline in membership over the past decades. The lack of balance between discipleship and evangelism has had a major influence on this decline. The question is whether the lack of understanding of the discipleship process is due to poor…
Effective emotion regulation benefits mental health. Little research has investigated common Protestant Christian spiritual disciplines’ relationship emotion regulation strategies. Using a within-group pre/post-test design with a sample of first-year Evangelical seminarians, thi…