Conversations concerning the missional posture of 1 Peter have been dictated largely by the now (in)famous debate between David Balch’s assimilationist position over and against John Elliott’s more sectarian position. More recent work has sought to bridge the gap between Balch a…
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This dissertation identifies and rank orders key factors that motivate and influence Campus Crusade for Christ Staff members, during their college experience, to accept the calling of God and enter vocational Christian service. By investigating these factors, this study can aid …
Perhaps the most widely known episode of a calling is the burning bush experience of Moses, leader of Israel's sojourn to freedom from Egyptian captivity. At present, the phenomenon of being called to a place, vocation, or career has limited social science research. Indeed, prio…
Assemblies of God USA statistics on credentialed ministers reveal an aging ministerial membership as well as a decline in the number of ministers under the age of forty—a trend that needs reversing. To address this problem, this project implements a mentoring process at Raleigh …
God’s call on an individual’s life is a call to action and to serve. “Calling is not only a matter of being and doing what we are, but also of becoming what we are not yet but are called by God to be.” (Barton, 2008, 79). The trajectory to that call is a journey that must be exp…
A focused strategy for developing young people for Christian leadership is necessary for the sustenance of the church. The purpose of this project is to suggest ways of improving Christian leadership succession within the Methodist Church, Ghana (MCG). Training next-generation l…
Making disciples of Jesus Christ is at the heart of the Christian church. This study addresses one aspect of discipleship, calling, that initiates the process. Calling, as understood in this research, is the avenue by which God initiates a relationship with humanity through an i…
There are many elements which have an influence on the quality of church education. Most of all, it may significantly affect the quality of church education that church school teachers recognize their identity, calling, and role. It is within bounds to say that the quality of ch…
The purpose of this study was to explore the experience of a lived calling for Christian variety performers. A basic qualitative study method was employed to conduct hour-long semi-structured interviews with thirty seasoned variety performers (jugglers, magicians, ventriloquists…
The study utilized Bandura’s (1986) social cognitive theory (SCT) and the triadic interplay of personal, behavioral, and environmental determinants to understand burnout among non-denominational clergy. This study sought to understand how the clergy’s understanding of burnout an…
Research in the field of seminary defines spiritual callings as the call to Christ’s belonging and participation in redemptive work in the world (Sweat, 2014). It is not known how seminarians perceive the process of decision-making while deciding to join the seminary. The purpos…
This study examined the perceptions of career agency, career calling, and divine calling among an exemplary group of U.S. mid-career evangelical Protestant foreign missionaries from four organizations who reported a sense of living out a calling. Using theoretical and empirical …
Interviews were conducted with 15 faculty members across 3 Christian U.S. university campuses in seeking to identify the attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors of these individuals who had been identified by institutional leaders in the area of calling and vocation as prioritizing th…
“There are too many Lone Ranger Pastors.” I remember hearing this statement very early in pastoral ministry. The itinerant nature of pastoral ministry in the United Methodist Church can at times make isolation and loneliness feel like the default position of ministry, but this i…