Browsing Dissertations, Theses, and Projects by Title
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Executive pastors' perception of leadership and management competencies needed for local church administration
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2004-05-14)This dissertation examines leadership and management competencies of Southern Baptist mega-church executive pastors. The study discusses the issue of limited research on the position of the executive pastor. Resources ... -
Expectation and Fulfillment of the Gift of the Holy Spirit in the Gospel of John
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2010-12-13)This study seeks to delineate the pneumatological themes that the author of John develops to create expectation and demonstrate fulfillment of the gift of the Holy Spirit. The primary question asked in this investigation ... -
An exploration of the relationship between a process-driven design for church ministry and church growth
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2005-05-04)This study formally explores the nature of the relationship between church growth and a process-driven design for church ministry. From extensive literature on church growth, church leadership, and process, four elements ... -
Exploring the Impact of Secondary Educational Contexts on College Student Formation and Development
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2018-01-02)The intent of this study was to explore the impact of secondary educational contexts on college student formation and development. Semi-structured interviews were employed in order to elicit information from participants ... -
Exploring the Role and Efficacy of Seminary Language Curricula
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2019-12-04)The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the role(s) and efficacy of biblical language studies in evangelical MDiv curricula. Six language professors, and twenty-four students who were in their last year of ... -
The Expository Exchange: Cultivating Next Generation Christ Followers Into Gospel Leaders Through Expository Preaching
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Ministries, 2019-05-06)Chapter 1 is an overview of the project. Chapter 2 forms the theological basis for expository preaching and generational ministry. The two sections of chapter 2 focus on a comprehensive overview of both the Old and New ... -
Expository preaching as a means to fulfill Paul's admonitions in the pastoral epistles to confront and correct false teaching
(2006-05-10)This dissertation argues that expository preaching can serve as a means to fulfill Paul's admonitions in the Pastoral Epistles to confront and correct false teaching. Chapter 1 defines the thesis and methodology of the ... -
Expository Preaching at the Dawn of the Reformation: An Evaluation of Martin Luther as Preacher in Light of Modern Expository Theory
(2018-01-03)ABSTRACT EXPOSITORY PREACHING AT THE DAWN OF THE REFORMATION: AN EVALUATION OF MARTIN LUTHER AS PREACHER IN LIGHT OF MODERN EXPOSITORY THEORY Randall Lyn Rozelle, D.Min. The Southern Baptist Theological ... -
Expository Preaching Through the Book of 1 Corinthians as a Means of Formative Church Discipline at Lebanon Baptist Church, Talbott, Tennessee
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2013-06-20)The purpose of this project was to utilize expository preaching through the book of 1 Corinthians as a means of formative church discipline at Lebanon Baptist Church in Talbott, Tennessee. Chapter 1 introduces Lebanon ... -
Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus: The Relationship between Ecclesiology and Soteriology for Cyprian of Carthage
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Theology, 2021-04-30)Cyprian wrote his treatise De ecclesiae catholicae unitate to discuss the relationship between the church and salvation. To counter the Novatian schism in Rome, Cyprian virtually equated the spiritual and visible church. ... -
Factors in expository preaching that influence attention, comprehension and retention levels
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2006-05-18)The gathered data in this research provides pastors, Christian educators, and other educators with a better understanding of multi-sensory teaching and advanced multi-sensory teaching and their influence on the cognitive ... -
Factors Relating to Diminished Confidence in Core Christian Doctrines among Students in Private Colleges and Universities: a Mixed Methods Study
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Church Ministries, 2021-03-26)The purpose of this mixed methods study was to determine areas where students attending private colleges or universities found themselves least equipped to defend core Christian doctrines of the faith to define areas that ... -
Factors Relating to Diminished Confidence in Core Christian Doctrines Among Students in Public Colleges and Universities: A Mixed Methods Study
(Southern Baptist Theological SeminarySchool of Missions and Evangelism, 2021-03-30)The purpose of this research study was to explore factors relating to diminished confidence in core Christian doctrines among public college students. Research reports thirty to sixty percent of young adults spiritually ... -
The failure of the Twelve in the Gospel of Mark: A classification of the evidence
(2003-12-05)This thesis examines the accounts of the Twelve's failures as they are provided in the Gospel of Mark and seeks to classify these failures into coherent categories. Chapter 1 offers grounds for studying these accounts of ... -
Faith Maturity: A Comparison between Young Adults in Emerging Churches and in Conservative Evangelical Churches
(2010-12)This dissertation examined the faith maturity scores of young adults in emerging churches and in conservative Evangelical churches. An analysis of faith maturity as well as an overview of emerging churches and conservative ... -
The faith of Jesus Christ: an analysis of Paul's use of pistis Christou
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2003-12-01)[Greek words romanized in title and description] This dissertation defends the thesis that the Pauline phrase, pistis Christou ("faith of Christ" [Rom 3:22,26; Gal 2:16, 20; 3:22; Phil 3:9; Eph 3:12]), in its various contexts, ... -
Faith, obedience, and justification: Current evangelical departures from sola fide
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2005-05-12)The thesis of this study is that influential evangelicals have adopted views regarding the relation of faith, obedience, and justification (or, in other words, justification sola fide ) that are in conflict with the historic, ... -
The False Self and True Self: A Christian Perspective
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2016-01-12)The aim of this study, as explained in the first chapter, is to synthesize insights from Christianity and secular psychology in order to answer four questions: (1) Why do people reflect upon themselves? (2) Why do they ... -
Family Ministry and Evangelism: An Empirical Study of Family Ministry Engagement and Baptism Ratios in the Southern Baptist Convention
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2018-01-02)Proponents of a family ministry strategy believe that Christian parents are called to be the primary disciple-makers in their children’s lives and that the church is called to equip parents for that important task. This ... -
Family ministry perceptions and practices in Hmong Christian and Missionary Alliance Churches: a multiple case study
(Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2016-10-27)In this holistic, multiple-case, replication study, key informant interviews, focus group interviews, documents, and field notes were gathered, coded, and analyzed from three stratified, randomly selected Hmong C&MA churches ...