Culture Change: Riding the Crest
The Theory of Culture Change
A Culture is a delineated group of people who because of group boundaries hold to consistent common understandings and ways of doing things. ...
... iews we have of different churches and the way they see things. It describes, the culture that we see in each of these churches.
From a 1932 clarinet catalogue:
"Like the Bundy clarinet, the Barbier i ...
Bartimaeus on Worldview
This sermon discusses the issues around seeing past our culture and worldview to find the direction and way of living that God wants us to have.
Text: Mark 10:46 - 52
The ...
... ll serious studies of American Church History devote some place to his ministry, but few credit him with contributing much to the evolution of religion. He is considered part of a bygone age and cultu ...
... re defeated.
- Instead they disapeared in the defeat of the jews
- in the eastern part of the community was a cemetary having around 1000 graves
- evidence of agriculture and cattle are also in the ...
... and the palestinian.
- After the exile, not every Jew returned to palestine. Lots had settled into their own little niche and were doing well
- shortly after the exile, greek culture was completely pervas ...
... continued until around the time of David.
- David's court and strong hold on the territory allowed culture to flourish.
- The King's court implied a clerical staff and thus literacy.
- David c.10 ...
... was that practice to do with the culture of the time?
Lets have a look at some examples of passages that are difficult to interpret:
a) 1Tim 2:9-15
Paul clearly indicates how women are to behave ...
... ike 40 years previously, they were now prepared to achieve the vision. The vision also gained breadth. It spread to the edges of the culture group that was the Israelite people. Because of the ghetto ...
... group was a self-contained culture and the norms of the group were developed within the family.
3) Elders/Foremen - Ex 4:29-31, 5:15,16
The two key aims of this governance were to survive the impositions ...
... e culture of many churches to allow people to excel, there tends to be slightly more for paid ministry than lay people but even paid ministry tend to get less than they need.
A church that has people w ...