[ad_1] I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church and was always led to believe that John the Baptist founded the Baptist Church. Well, it made sense: John was a “Baptist;” we were “Baptists.” So John must have started the Baptist Church, right? Yes, optimistic thinking at its best. Perception is, as they say, reality. […]
[ad_1] Meditation in God’s Word is the process by which we change our thinking to line up and come into agreement with God’s Thoughts, which are higher than our thoughts. Meditation is not the devil’s idea or creation. That liar never created anything. What he does is tries to contradict and use God’s principles in […]
[ad_1] Churches and private businesses have much in common, both need people to exist. Can churches benefit from running their churches like businesses? One thing is for sure, if a private business ran their business like a church, they would not survive. Many Church leaders who believe they need to and should run their church […]
[ad_1] The Process The process for mediation will be dependent upon how mediation is triggered. Mediation can be triggered by: a contract a court or tribunal an agreement to mediate. A contract can state that when a dispute occurs to do with the contract or any matter of contractual import or bearing the parties must […]
[ad_1] Organizationally, starting a church from scratch is similar to putting up a company or organization. Where people of the same faith and interest gather together to agree to put up an institution. Starting a church is only unique in a way that it is meant to spread the Gospel and to uplift the spirituality […]
[ad_1] A mediator needs to develop several abilities: 1) attentiveness 2) ethics 3) emotional intelligence 4) subject matter expertise 5) decisiveness. ATTENTIVENESS The most important ability for a mediator is to pay attention. One eminent historian has written that our entire society suffers from attention deficit. [Niall Ferguson: Colossus, 2004] The plain and awful truth […]
[ad_1] I discovered psychology when I was a university freshman, many years ago. I loved everything about that first course, even the multiple choice tests and especially the section about counseling. Religion was not mentioned in the course, except in a negative way, but in my mind, I could see glimpses of how this newly-discovered […]
[ad_1] The moment you put two or more people in one space, conflict comes up. The reason is that each person has a unique way of seeing and processing things. At the point of realizing differences of opinion, intolerance of any opposing mindset can kick in resulting in either people distancing from each other or […]
[ad_1] One of the most helpful ways that Paul explained our relationship to Christ and to the Church is the teaching that all believers together form the body of Christ, the Church with Him as the Head. Since we all have a fairly good understanding of our own body and how it works, we can […]
[ad_1] There are many different ways to meditate. Each one is a different method with broadly the same end result. Check out these different meditation methods to see which suits you best. Walking meditation This is one of the easiest ways to meditate, although obviously it isn’t as separate from the rest of the world […]
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