A place where college students are forced to swipe there id cards twice a week, Chapel has become less about worship and listening to the message of the chapel speakers. Instead it has become more of a place students use to socialize, catch up on much needed sleep, and play on their phones. Many Christian colleges face this issue and Spring Arbor University is no exception. This paper will look at what the real purpose of Chapel is based on the students who sit in the far back and students who sit toward the front. Through these observations, it becomes clear that Chapel is more about the student 's needs to finish tasks than it is for worship and listening to the Chapel speakers. When students enter through the doors of Chapel, it becomes evident that many of them do not want to be there and seem to have better things to do with there lives. By looking around in Chapel it 's clear that many students are not paying attention. If someone where to come visit during Chapel time they would think it 's a place for students to take naps and do homework. Many students spend there time in Chapel looking down at there cell phones surfing the internet. The reason many students spend time on there cellphone is because they see no purpose in Chapel. I later asked several students what the message the Chapel speaker was trying to convey and many students said they weren 't paying attention or the speakers message was boring. It is as if Chapel is another class students are forced to take on campus. The seating in Chapel suggests that it is a large place to gather and worship, but observation of the activity in the seating shows that this is truly not accurate. The seats located toward the back of Chapel are most misused. During Chapel ti... ... middle of paper ... ...ion. These students might connect better with the worship service then they do the Chapel speaker. It 's possible that students sitting in the back the rows actually like attending Chapel they just don 't care to listen to the Chapel speakers message. Realizing that Chapel is more of a social gathering for students rather than a place where students can worship isn 't fully intended to draw people away from attending Chapel. Many students feel Chapel should be option, but students wouldn 't attend if that was the case. Ultimately, I feel it is the students choice to sit where ever they want and as students attending a Christian university they should pay attention to the Chapel speaker. If students choose to do homework, socialize, or catch up on much needed it only affects them, but by these students doings this other students feel as if they can get away with it.
In my paper I will talk about my visit to The Community Church at Murphy's Landing (CCML). I have chosen this particular Church because it is a family church type and my neighbor goes there and she encouraged me to go with her. I went there with my neighbor on April 6, 2014.This church is an appropriate for this assignment because the people there are welcoming me with an open heart and they are willing to help and provide me with information. When I visit the Church’s site I read these words “We know visiting a new church can be intimidating. But, we want to help you to be as comfortable as possible when and if you join us”. The people gather in the church weekly to glorify God in joyful worship. The expressions of worship on CCML take many forms a prayer, a hymn of reverent awe, a guitar ringing with a chorus of praise, or a warm handshake and a welcoming smile. Their weekly services begin at 9:30 each Sunday at church. Also, they have weekly podcast if anyone wants to listen online. They have many types of services for parents, kids and students. People at CCML were so friendly; they gather around me and start welcoming me, one by one. People there introducing themselves to me, one after another and provide me with their contact information and help. Then we start talking about the church services and Christianity in particular. The mission of CCML was knowing, growing and loving. They seek to live out our mission by worshipping together as a local community of believers, growing in spiritual maturity through discipleship, education, and small groups, caring for one another within the context of the larger church body and small groups, and Communicating the love of Christ to our world, both through local outreach and global mis...
What the author says is that a “Christian college is not only the defender of the faith, and to protect students against sin and heresy in other institutions, good education plus biblical studies in a religious environment, is not just designed to prepare ministers for church and is not just simply for the social or extracurricular activities“(Holmes. pg 4, 5), instead of these, Holmes states that a Christian college needs to educate and cultivate an active integration of faith and learning at the same time.
“Join us people or you all will go to hell!” a religious man is shouting, standing in front of the administrator’s office, carrying a cardboard sign, and thus fierce looking eyes are targeted at people ready to manipulate them. He looks young, twenty six, strong, and muscular with facial hair. I assume he is a Christian for the word he portrays of Jesus. He is smart for the space he picked to persuade students on the existence of God. It seems to me that everyone already knows him (Brother Dean) for his actions and activities he created on campus. A strong Christian influence and a manipulator have brought adversity topics among other religions, creating an unsafe environmental space to people’s beliefs on campus.
As I saw from Scripture all the different places that Christians in the Bible gathered together, I came to the conclusion that the reason why God doesn’t go into much detail about the place where they gathered is because He’s not interested in buildings, He’s interested in people. He’s interested in what people do, not what people use to shelter themselves. There are so many instances in Scripture about where they met, but that’s all they are: instances. It is a guaranteed fact that when Paul (or whoever else) went to a place and shared the gospel with them, the new believers supernaturally wanted to be with one another and therefore gathered together. Whether it was in a house, synagogue, or somewhere else, Paul’s (and God’s) thrust of Scripture is directed more to what believers are to know and do.
Nathan performed many observational studies that compelled her to voice the disparity between the formal and informal areas of college life. The "undergraduate worldview" (112) is composed of an in-class, intellectual side that goes vastly unnoticed beside the behemoth that entails living in an environment filled with thousands of young adults. The partying, dorm life, and other non-school sanctioned aspects of living in unsupervised quarters encompass both a student’s time and mental capacities. She found that a majority of conversations surrounded topics of sports, the opposite sex, and TV shows. They find solace in the communal suffrage of going to class and seldom discuss how difficult classes can be. This demeans the intellectual side of college by turning the topic against cl...
In an age when culture continues to lower standards of intellect, Marva Dawn makes compelling observations and suggestions for the Church to rethink its’ strategy on impacting society. How do we evangelize without weakening the message of what we are communicating? The majority of her text focuses on the worship environment generally, but later she focuses on music, preaching, and liturgy specifically. According to Dawn, a gathering of believers should emphasize God as the subject and object of worship, challenge each individual to grow in godly character, and accentuate the community of believers (not only in the room, but throughout history as well). Through this grid, she encourages leaders and participants to evaluate each worship element. If these primary goals are accomplished, then worship will not be empty and simpleminded. Instead the worship atmosphere would be held to a higher standard and, she believes, both pleasing to God and attractive to those who do not know God.
Most community college campuses are small compared to universities, which means that class sizes are typically smaller as well. Many students who attend a university after high school have trouble keeping up with the academic pace, and large class sizes made up of hundreds of students only makes matters worse. At community colleges, professors are far more accessible and can provide the personal time students are accustomed to. Community colleges are a notch above high school, but they also provide great learning and social atmospheres on a smaller scale. My freshman year of college, I attended the University of Missouri in Columbia. Most of my classes had over 250 students in them and I didn’t have the opportunity to meet a single profe...
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... learned at CBU, in addition to ways such as challenging students to grow in their faith while learning. For example, I would suggest that they use ideas and scriptures that they learned in Bible study or in church within the past weeks of assignments. This will help to keep students engaged with the material and faith based concepts that they have learned within the weeks. Also, I think promoting attending CBU or church based activities for assignments can help students learn course material as well as grow in their faith. I believe that faith integration is an important component that CBU offers that many other universities do not. I can honestly speak to how beneficial it was for me to complete my program at CBU. I not only learned a wealth of knowledge in the counseling field but I grew as a Christian, which is something that I wish to pass on to future students.
An example of this movement is at the First Baptist Fellowship Church in Pine Bluff, where aggressive steps have been taken to introduce the youth to the teachings of Christianity. Youth pastor Chris Meyer says that in the past seven years the inrolment of the youth has grown from around Fifty to over two hundred as of February 1999. Meyer says “ The membership in our youth program began to explode in such a short time that the church didn’t have a place big enough to hold them.” Of the two hundred or so young people (ages 14-24) 25% of them come from Pine Bluff’s low income black population. Most of the black children came to the church by way of the Light House, a old bakery in the middle of the black majority neighborhoods that the Church set up to counsel people in the poor part of town. Meyer says “ kids began to hang around the ce...
Ritchie, M. (1999). Community bible chapel. The story of the church – Part 4, Topic 5. The Protestant
Many teachers believe classrooms are too small. Many teachers and students believe classrooms are not big enough. If students are working on a group activity that takes up a lot of space will have to do activity in the hallway. If students are watching a film for class will have to move or adjust because most likely students in the back of the classroom cannot see. Teachers may not have enough desks some students may end up sitting in a part of the room where it could be the size of a coat closet.
Are large lecture hall numbers in colleges pushing incoming freshman away? It does for me and many other people I talk to about college. In colleges adds, they mainly advertise if they have small class numbers. They tell us that we will be on a first name basis with out professors if we attend that college. Never have I seen the University of Iowa brag about their 300 people lecture halls. There is a reason to that, and it is quite simple. Students do not learn as well in large class sizes. According to the article “Does Class Size Matter” in the New York Times, students were asked to comment their thoughts on the question. Out of the 220 comments left by students all around the world, 99 percent of the comments that I read said that they liked being in smaller classes for a few simple reasons. One, they can pay attention to what the teacher is teaching better. Two, there are less distractions; this is beneficial to both the teacher and students. And three, the communication with the teacher is much better in a classroom with fewer students. There is more to just the students learning that gets affected by class sizes. We must step back and look at the rock of the classroom, the teacher. It does affect how students learn if the teacher is using certain methods. There are a multitude of ways to teach and sometimes it just doesn’t click with a student the way the teacher is teaching. If we had smaller classes, educators would be able to identify the students who are struggling and figure out a way to help them
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