The purpose of this study was to study how spiritual growth and housing choices for first-year college students correlate with one another. This qualitative case study is founded on the conceptual frameworks of Erikson’s stages of psychosocial development and Fowler’s stages of …
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In a world that prioritizes secular academy, and adult education outside of the church, the intervention sought to discover the best practices of the local church that help adults grow spiritually and engage in God’s mission. This project researched the field of discipleship, sp…
The purpose of this project was to restore the impact of Christian or biblical doctrine on wealth in the life of the believers and the church. While the current trend of preaching often minimizes the theological tenets in favor of preaching the felt needs of the contemporary aud…
The purpose of this correlational quantitative study was to determine a relationship between Sunday School participation and spiritual formation upon participating congregations of the General Baptist State Convention of North Carolina (GBSCNC). The process of spiritual formatio…
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…
In this study, the researcher used a qualitative phenomenological study to examine the experiences of pastors incorporating five different instructional strategies into their weekly teaching of the mid-week Bible study. The five instructional strategies included setting objectiv…
Drawing on 50 years of combined experience as a religious educator and spiritual director, I have created a resource for spiritual growth that engages people who want to more fully understand and integrate evolutionary principles into their lives. The pedagogical method as well …
This study explored the relationship between spiritual growth and servant leadership. A total of 152 self-identified Christians, primarily from the Lilly Grove Baptist Church, and other affiliated Baptist churches, participated in this study. Participants completed a self-report…
This dissertation argues for the relationship between marriage and spiritual formation. In the Bible, marriage is ordained by God and it is used as a metaphor to explain the relationship between God and His people, and Jesus and His church. Therefore, the purpose of marriage is …
This thesis analyzes critical and non-critical approaches to the interpretation of scripture against the four psychological features of religious coping identified by Ken Pargament—differentiation, integration, flexibility, and security—to argue that an ecclesial-critical approa…
This project seeks to help the local church make disciples who make disciples by comparing the effectiveness of sermon-based small groups to discipleship groups in making and multiplying disciples. Sermon-based small groups are eight to sixteen individuals of mixed gender that c…
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…
Emerging adults show declining participation in organized religion and increasing spirituality, a finding that has occupied researchers for decades. This paper suggests that the source of this puzzling trend is the religious identity development emerging adults pursue. In order …
This study aims to stress the importance of using an evangelism training program for restoring the spirituality of believers. It also addresses how believers can evaluate their change after they have been trained in a special program for spiritual restoration. Since Old Testamen…
This study sought to answer the following two questions: 1) How do online only students at postsecondary Christian schools evaluate their own spiritual growth, and2) What are the perceptions of these students regarding their institution’s effectiveness with provided spiritual fo…