This thesis contends that youth from age twelve to twenty-five played a pivotal role in the revivals of the Second Great Awakening in New York and New England. Rather than merely being passive onlookers in these religious renewals, the youth were active participants, influencing the frequency, spread, and intensity of the Christian revivals. Relying heavily upon personal accounts written by youth and revival records from various denominations, this work examines adolescent religious experiences during the first half of the nineteenth century. Chapter 1 explores the impact parents had on youth religiosity, showing how the teaching and examples they saw in their homes built the religious foundation for young people. The next chapter discusses how the youth continued to build upon what they were taught in their homes by seeking for personal conversion experiences. This chapter contends that conversion experiences were the crucial spiritual turning point in the lives of young people, and explores how they were prepared for and reacted to these experiences. Chapter 3 outlines personal worship among the youth and describes the specific tactics that churches implemented in helping convert and strengthen the young. As churches used revival meetings and clergy-youth relationships to fortify these converts, young people implemented the same practices in helping their peers. Finally, chapter 4 utilizes revival records and Methodist church data to provide quantitative evidence of the widespread and crucial role that young people had in influencing revivals. Understanding the widespread impact of these youth on nineteenth-century revivals provides new insight into the ways in which young people impacted the greater social, religious, and culture changes sweeping across America at the time.

The purposes of this study were to discover the current status of church administration of the Evangelical Churches of West Africa (ECWA) and to offer recommendations. In order to achieve these purposes, an extensive review of the professional literature dealing with church administration and management was conducted, and a questionnaire was constructed and categorized into the following broad areas of church administration: (1) church government, (2) educational leadership (3) evangelism and missions, (4) financial management, and (5) general administration. The following conclusions were drawn: 1. Management of church affaris under the four administrative church councils appears to be less than effective. 2. Professional local church leadership appears to be weak. 3. Strategies regarding recruitment of missionaries and mission finances appear weak. 4. The ECWA appears to lack both an acceptable criteria and specified groups for evaluation of theological programs. 5. Better financial management is one of ECWA's major areas of need. 6. Written personel guidelines and job descriptions are a critical need in ECWA church administration. 7. The need for effective communication may be one of the major problems facing ECWA.

Evangelical churches hold evangelism as a hallmark of their movement, but evangelism and conversion rates are in decline. Might this decline be the result of absent or inadequate evangelistic equipping on the part of the church? This project presents a phenomenographic analysis and critique on how congregations are being equipped for evangelism. It employs both surveys of congregational members as well as pastoral leaders. Follow-up interviews with pastoral leaders have also been used to clarify findings from the initial surveys. These interviews have been analyzed to discover the qualitatively different understandings that are evident in the data regarding the phenomenon of evangelistic equipping. These understandings are categorized, and a description of each category type is provided. The results of these findings provide a more expansive understanding of the equipping task and offer specific ways in which the task of evangelistic equipping can be expanded to serve the Evangelical church better.

<p>A curious demographic shift is underway in North American evangelical churches. While the percentage of teens and young adults who regularly attend worship services has remained basically the same for the past thirty years the number of casual attenders is plummeting. In 2008, forty-seven percent of teens reported never attending a worship service, up from twenty-eight percent in 1980. What is causing such a radical shift in worship attendance? This thesis will investigate an increasingly distinct cultural group, called Digital Natives, who were born since 1990 and have never known a world without the Internet and constant connection to digital media.</p> <p>Through the development of a biblical theology of technology, and the investigation of recent research into the psychological and social effects of social media and other computer mediated communication, this thesis will develop a clearer picture of the cultural gap that many Mainline and Evangelical churches are facing. Through theological reflection this thesis will identify new boundaries and new behaviours that will assist in the discipling and spiritual formation of Digital Natives in today's churches.</p> / Thesis / Master of Divinity (M.Div)

JURČOVÁ, Mária. The attitude of Slovak Evangelical Churches to Liturgy. [Master thesis] / Mária Jurčová. - Charles Univerzity in Prague. Hussite Theological Faculty; - Supervisor: prof. ThDr. Pavel Procházka, PhD. - Degree: Master. - Prague : HTF UK, 2011. 83 p. This Master thesis "The attitude of Slovak Evangelical Churches to Liturgy" deals with current shape of Sunday worship in Slovak evangelical churches. This study shows liturgical tension which generates our changing culture and also asks a question how can we form liturgy in this new culture. The purpose of this thesis is to describe current situation and liturgy in Slovak evangelical churches and outline assumes of liturgical renewal in changing times. The first chapter is short introduction to the terminology. The second chapter focuses on the New Testament point of view regarding questions of the liturgy. The third chapter deal with new cultural transformation in the world and in Slovakia and is also focused on impact of these changes on evangelical liturgy. New culture, known as postmodernism, shows new styles of liturgy. The fourth chapter brings empirical results of evangelical liturgy research. This thesis wants to contribute for present discussion about liturgical renewal in evangelical churches. Keywords: Liturgy - Worship -...

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:20:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 BrunoCFBC_DISSERT.pdf: 3154340 bytes, checksum: 8455c9b27e56d324c1ddcd7e74cad022 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-03-18 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / This work focuses on analysis of the partnerships and socio-religious actions at Felipe Camar?o, a popular district situated in the west of the city of Natal-RN. We observed that the inhabitants of this district are facing some economical, political and social difficulties. Coupled to these problems - among them in this study highlight the social violence, committed mainly by young people aged 15 to 29 years, but affects the whole population - we find a location with a large number of evangelical churches. With this, we know the reality of the community more deeply, to thereby be able to understand if there are and how to make partnerships among evangelical churches, the community and other civic organizations in both of the existing district and the city to deal with these problems. In addition, we verified that the elements obstruct the public performance of the churches and also follow the actions already taken / Este trabalho tem como objeto de an?lise as parcerias e a??es s?cio religiosas em Felipe Camar?o, um bairro popular situado na zona Oeste da cidade do Natal-RN. Observamos que os habitantes desse bairro enfrentam algumas dificuldades de ordem econ?mica, pol?tica e social. Atrelado a esses problemas dentre os quais destacaremos neste estudo a viol?ncia social, praticada, sobretudo, pelos jovens na faixa et?ria de 15 a 29 anos, mas que afeta toda a popula??o encontramos uma localidade com um grande n?mero de templos evang?licos. Com isso, buscamos conhecer a realidade da comunidade com maior profundidade, para desta forma, poder entender se existem e como se d?o as parcerias entre as igrejas evang?licas, a comunidade e as demais organiza??es civis existentes tanto no bairro como na cidade para o enfrentamento desses problemas. Al?m disso, objetivamos verificar os elementos que obstacularizam a atua??o p?blica das igrejas e tamb?m acompanhamos as a??es j? realizadas

Marie Tesárková Diplomová práce 2013 Abstract: This work contains a summary of history of Czech Pentecostal Church and of its musical impact on the society. The Conception of Musicians' in Czech Pentecostal Church utilizes surveys of other evangelical churches, that were executed by e-mail correspondence with their leaders. An on-line questionnaire for contemporary musicians of Czech Pentecostal Church became another ground for this work. Thus the proposal for a conception considers all aquired information, along with education plans of several Czech schools of Art and with education plans of American Central Bible college. Key words: Czech Pentecostal Church, musicians' education, evangelical churches, interdenominational events, conception if education

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-03T12:30:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ana Claudia Gusso.pdf: 2568093 bytes, checksum: 5f0773271441de6b85f626d130007105 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-03-03 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This research brings into evidence both the use of internal, directed communication instruments and the use of public relations actions and relationship marketing inside the historic evangelical churches. The aim is to check if those instruments have any relation to the loss or retention of members in those churches and in their numerical growth in the face of a new religious configuration, where fidelity is getting harder to get every day. This study emphasizes the importance of internal communication and marketing communi cation strategies used inside the historic churches as an aid to the so called word of mouth marketing. In order to do this research, an analysis of the four historic churches in Curitiba with the greatest number of members was conducted. Those churches are the Baptist, the Lutheran, the Presbyterian and the Methodist. The study was carried on by participating observation research, analysis of various kinds of materials, interviews with church leaders and a quantitative research which involved the members and the visitors of the four churches. By using a structured questionnaire, this study analyzed the behavior of these members face to the internal directed communication means used in the churches and the relationships that happen inside them, both between their members and between the members and their leaders.(AU) / Esta pesquisa evidencia o uso de instrumentos de comunicação interna e dirigida e de ações de relações públicas e marketing de relacionamento dentro das igrejas evangélicas históricas. Também enfatiza a importância da comunicação interna e das estratégias de comunicação mercadológicas utilizadas dentro das igrejas inclusive com o uso do marketing boca a boca. Para a realização desta pesquisa foi feito um recorte das quatro maiores igrejas evangélicas históricas, em número de membros, situadas na cidade de Curitiba: Batista, Luterana, Presbiteriana e Metodista. O estudo foi realizado por meio de pesquisas de observação participante, análise de materiais diversos, entrevista com os líderes e uma pesquisa de campo, quantitativa, envolvendo os membros e freqüentadores das igrejas. Com o auxilio de um questionário estruturado foram analisados: 1) o comportamento dos membros e freqüentadores diante dos instrumentos de comunicação interna e dirigida que estão sendo utilizados e percebidos; e 2) os relacionamentos dentro da igreja, tanto entre membros quanto entre estes e seus líderes. A pesquisa concluiu que estes instrumentos de comunicação interna possuem relação com a retenção, perda e crescimento numérico de membros nas igrejas pesquisadas, frente a uma nova configuração religiosa onde a fidelização está cada vez mais difícil de ser alcançada.(AU)

This thesis describes the unique transition of the German Alliance-Mission (GAM) from an interdenominational faith mission to a denominational church mission agency. This process was begun and developed by the affiliation on the Federation of Free Evangelical Churches in Germany (FFEC). The GAM was in the beginning stage an intentionally interdenominational mission agency. Their founding fathers Carl Polnick and Fredrik Franson were against denominationalism. Therefore they could not imagine approaching one particular denomination to work together. However, in the 1920's the GAM became more denominationally minded through the influence of the new mission leaders. After World War II the leaders of GAM and FFEC began to negotiate about cooperation. In 1960 the FFEC leaders asked their individual congregations to support the GAM only. In 1975, it became necessary to record an agreement. This agreement made the GAM the official world mission organisation of the FFEC in Germany. / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / M.Th. (Missiology)

This thesis describes the unique transition of the German Alliance-Mission (GAM) from an interdenominational faith mission to a denominational church mission agency. This process was begun and developed by the affiliation on the Federation of Free Evangelical Churches in Germany (FFEC). The GAM was in the beginning stage an intentionally interdenominational mission agency. Their founding fathers Carl Polnick and Fredrik Franson were against denominationalism. Therefore they could not imagine approaching one particular denomination to work together. However, in the 1920's the GAM became more denominationally minded through the influence of the new mission leaders. After World War II the leaders of GAM and FFEC began to negotiate about cooperation. In 1960 the FFEC leaders asked their individual congregations to support the GAM only. In 1975, it became necessary to record an agreement. This agreement made the GAM the official world mission organisation of the FFEC in Germany. / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / M.Th. (Missiology)