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Leveraging Transferable Leadership Competencies to Increase Lay Leader Training Perception at New Vision Baptist Church, Murfreesboro, Tennessee
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Ministries, 2023-12)The purpose of this ministry project is to increase the perception of the value of leadership training among lay leaders at New Vision Baptist Church in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The result of accomplishing the project goals ... -
Equipping Members of Summit Church in Naples, Florida, to Engage in Cultural Apologetics With Gentleness and Respect
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2023-12)The purpose of this project is to equip the members of Summit Church to engage in cultural apologetics with gentleness and respect so that they can have greater confidence and success in befriending and sharing the gospel ... -
Developing a Structured Disciple-Making Process at First Baptist Church of Garrettsville, Ohio
(The Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Ministries, 2023-12)This project was designed to develop a structured disciple-making process at First Baptist Church of Garrettsville, Ohio. Chapter 1 gives the ministry context of FBCG and the goals and rationale for the project. Chapter 2 ... -
Christian Curriculum Emphases and Academic Rigor: A Mixed Methods Study
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2023-06-19)Chapter 1 of this study explores the relationship between Christian curricular emphases and academic rigor among Christian secondary schools. It uses convergent data transformation methods to analyze published curriculum ... -
Responses to the Messianic Claim: Characterization as Rhetorical Device in the Gospel of Matthew
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2023-05-10)While the Gospel of Matthew has long been recognized as having a distinctly “Jewish” orientation, the decades following World War II witnessed a growing interest among scholars asking whether Matthew could be regarded as ... -
The Kingdom Agents or, the Twin Operations of Kingdom and Empire in the Trials of Jesus and Paul
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2023-05-05)Both Luke and Acts end with a strikingly similar series of events: the protagonists of those books (Jesus and Paul, respectively) are called before Roman judicial tribunals who repeatedly find them innocent of any charges ... -
The Command from His Father: Begotten not Made, Submissive not Subservient, Assigned not Subjected
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2023-05-05)While a majority of contemporary theologians conceptualize the Trinity as ordered relations with unstructured authority (ORUA), other theologians view the Trinity as possessing eternal relations of authority and submission ... -
Reading the Pausal Forms Together with the Accents in the Masoretic Text
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2023-05-04)Contrary to E. J. Revell’s diachronic view that the pausal forms and accents in the Masoretic Text reflect two different reading traditions, this dissertation contends that reading the pausal forms and accents together is ... -
The Church's Role in a Pandemic: Reflection, Response, and Revival
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2023-05-03)In this thesis, I argue that the church should commit to its essential role as “the people of God,” “the body of Christ,” and “the temple of the Holy Spirit” to serve the community and world while facing a global pandemic, ... -
The First Translation of the Bible Among Indigenous Islamic Peoples Using a Mediating Approach
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2023-05-01)Bible translators among indigenous, Islamic people groups face difficult decisions when translating key biblical terms. Translators may use a word-for-word approach which can leave the reader with little meaning or the ... -
“Eminent Spirituality and Eminent Usefulness”: Andrew Fuller’s Contribution to the Revitalization of the Particular Baptists in the Long Eighteenth Century
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2023-05-01)Andrew Fuller was convinced that eminent spirituality in a minister would usually be attended with eminent usefulness in the ministry. Chapter 1 introduces the thesis and argues that this foundational conviction drove ... -
Training Preachers in Sacred Rhetoric Commonly Associated with African-American Preaching at Cornerstone Baptist Church in Wilmington, North, Carolina
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2023-05-01)The purpose of this project was to train preachers in sacred rhetoric commonly associated with African American preaching for the improvement of biblical exposition in the context of Wilmington, North Carolina. Chapter 1 ... -
A Theological Analysis of the Educational Method of Maria Montessori Using an Inverse Consistency Protocol
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminaryBilly Graham School of Missions and Evangelism, 2023-05)The Montessori approach to education has been embraced by a wide variety of educators around the world. Ironically, though, as secular educators have accepted Maria Montessori’s pedagogical methods, little research has ... -
Singing the Self: Exploring the Role of Congregational Song in Identity Formation
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Church Ministries, 2023-04-30)This dissertation evaluates aspects of identity formation research, drawn fromthe social sciences, and interprets the findings from a Christian theological perspective. I argue that liturgical practices provide believers, ... -
Best Practices in Leading Organizational Change in the Local Church: A Multi-Case Study
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2023-04-30)This dissertation was designed to identify best practices for leading organizational change in the local church ministering in an urban context. The dissertation also sought to determine whether the leadership in the local ... -
Measuring the Usefulness of the Discipleship Pathway Assessment in the Local Church
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2023-04-30)This ministry project was designed to measure the usefulness of Lifeway’s Discipleship Pathway Assessment in local churches. The chapters show why there is a need for an assessment tool that measures spiritual growth while ... -
Missionary Preparation and Care at Mercy Church, in Charlotte, North Carolina
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2023-04-30)The purpose of this project is to establish a program for missionary preparation and care a Mercy Church. Chapter 1 describes the context, rationale, purpose, goals, research methodology definitions, and limitations/delimitations ... -
The Middle Voice in the Septuagint and the Greek New Testament
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2023-04-29)The Hellenistic Greek verbal system was capable of communicating three voices: active, middle, and passive. Of these, the middle voice has long proven the most difficult for English speakers to understand. Questions exist ... -
Walking in the Spirit in Galatians: Comparing Obedience and Agency in Galatians, 1QS, and 4 Maccabees
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2023-04-28)The focus of this work is on divine and human agency and walking in obedience. This dissertation examines what Paul says about divine and human agency with regard to walking by the Spirit in Galatians, focusing on 5:16–25, ... -
Making Providence Church in Duluth, Georgia, a More Welcoming Place to Persons with Disabilities
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2023-04-27)The aim of this project is to equip church members to be more welcoming to persons with disabilities. Chapter 1 shows how the church has unwittingly become an unwelcoming place to persons with disabilities. Statistics and ...