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A Strategic Approach Equipping Parents to Raise Children to Become Healthy Adults by Age Twenty-Five
Get PDFA Strategic Approach Equipping Parents to Raise Children to Become Healthy
Adults by Age Twenty-Five
James Kyooje Lee
Doctor of Ministry
School of Theology, Fuller Theological Seminary
2018
The goal of this final project is to create a parent seminar and strategy that would
serve local churches, Christian schools, and families. Over the past few decades, major
shifts and changes have taken place in the adolescent journey and the complicated
transition into adulthood. Adolescence is starting earlier and ending later. A new
demographic called emerging adulthood has developed, finding its way in between
adolescence and adulthood. Many parents, schools, and ministries intuitively know
growing up today is different but do not necessarily know what is at the root causes of so
many changes. The journey of adolescence is further complicated by the systemic
abandonment of youth by adults and their agendas.
This final project takes an in-depth look at the reasons why adolescence is taking
so much longer. Because adolescence is extended, the natural by-product is the delaying
of entering adulthood as defined by traditional markers. Keeping these dynamics in mind,
the project not only explains the multitude of reasons behind the rapidly changing
landscapes of adolescence and emerging adulthood, it also provides helpful strategies to
assist parents, educators, youth pastors, coaches and executives. Adults today need to
learn both the new markers of adulthood and the non-traditional order in which these
markers are reached.
Ultimately, positive change will come from a true awareness of today’s landscape
by an older generation of adults willing to come alongside young people and families. A
final goal of this project is to provide a parenting seminar that can assist parents, schools,
and churches across the country.
Content Reader: Chap Clark, PhD.
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COLLECTION 0136: Fuller Theological Seminary School of Theology Deans’ Files, 1944-
Get PDFThe Fuller Theological Seminary School of Theology Deans’ Files, 1944- consists of the office files of Fuller Seminary Dean’s Office (1947-1965) and the Dean’s Office of the School of Theology (1965-Present).
The “Dean Files” from 1947-1965 contains papers related to the general operation of the overall Seminary and its programs. Reflecting the the 1965 transition of the original “Dean’s Office” into the Dean’s Office of the School of Theology, the collection’s contents focus on the School of Theology administration.
Materials include the records of Harold Lindsell (1952 to 1963), Daniel Payton Fuller (1963 to 1973), and William Dyrness (1990-2000). Harold Lindsell\u27s files include Library records kept by the faculty library committee, 1948-1965.
Of particular interest—the collection includes Fuller Seminary’s contracts for the Veterans Administration and the Seminary’s Articles of Incorporation
Religious Service Attendance and the Effects of Moral Foundations On In-Group Giving
No full textThe purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of innate, lower level emotional-cognitive constructs and God concepts on generous giving toward religious in-group members. Haidt and Joseph’s (2007) five moral foundations are motivational constructs that underlie normative judgments and behaviors by guiding intuitions that have affiliated moral judgments and behavior. These foundations were proposed as possible mediators of the association between religious attendance and in-group giving, and traditional God concept was proposed as a moderator of the relation between attendance and moral foundations. The results indicated that traditional God concept moderated the indirect effect of the fairness/reciprocity foundation in explaining the relation between religious attendance and total giving to the in-group even after controlling for household income. Those with highly traditional God concepts and higher religious attendance reported greater levels of fairness/reciprocity reasoning concerning whether something is right, and they had lower donations to the ingroup charities (Christian) and higher levels of donations to non-ingroup charities (secular and Muslim). This finding is substantial in that it further explains the relation between religious attendance and giving, but not in the way that many researchers would have predicted
Race, Evangelicalism, and the Local Church Prophetic Leadership Practices for Adaptive Change
Get PDFThe racially divisive 2016 election of Donald Trump and its aftermath has exposed the deficient theology of American evangelicalism that does more to perpetuate racism and a racialized society than to reduce it. Through the development and personal practice of a prophetic leadership framework, the project aims to challenge a local pastor’s network in Irvine, California to apply the reconciling power of the gospel to the racial divides that ail our society in general, and our local congregations in particular. The project is composed of two major elements: first is the development of a better theological framework that addresses the said deficiencies, while the second is the development of a prophetic leadership paradigm that best addresses the adaptive challenge.
In the first framework development, the theological deficiencies are addressed by examining the various evangelical responses to race issues in our culture. The study identifies evangelicalism’s inability to acknowledge structural forms of racism to be at the center of its problems. Three elements of the evangelical framework are observed to contribute to this mindset—a narrow reading of the gospel, individualistic understanding of spirituality, and an unconfessed history of racism. In response, the study proposes three resources to overcome these challenges—understanding the missional calling of the church, recovering our essential communal identity in the Trinitarian personhood of God, and developing Scripture-based empathy.
In the second framework development, a prophetic leadership paradigm is created to address the adaptive environment. Inspired by Michael Walzer’s description of a prophet as an internal critic, I describe what it means to work as an insider, as an outsider, and as someone without vertical (positional) authority in pursuing my prophetic calling upon the pastor’s network. The study concludes with a reflection on the lessons learned on the yearlong practice of these strategies
Single-Parent Hope: A Local Outreach Ministry Incarnating God’s Care to Those of Rancho Cucamonga
Get PDFThe twenty-first century North American church is challenged to present the gospel to diverse post-modern family structures. Ministry language, services, times, and leadership expectations based in the twentieth century can be perceived to be exclusionary, unaccommodating, and irrelevant. Single-parent families are a significant societal element that requires the formulation of sensitive outreach. This doctoral project will develop a strategy for Northkirk Presbyterian Church to mobilize a mission group that identifies and addresses the needs and suffering of single-parent neighbors. By entering their lives, the Church can incarnate the care of Jesus Christ and invite them to also follow Jesus
Under One Roof: A Theology of Mercy Responding to Tragic Flooding in Minot, North Dakota
Get PDFGod’s people can play a critical role in times of natural disaster. This ministry paper explores the theological concepts that propel a local church to action during a time of natural disaster. In addition, this paper will provide a practical framework for a local church to respond with incarnational ministry that transforms disaster-related human suffering with the tangible compassion of Christ.
Following a 2011 Level 1 natural disaster, Our Savior Lutheran Church in Minot, North Dakota, coordinated a ministry of mercy where five thousand volunteers from forty-two states changed the city’s trajectory through Christian service. Often churches do not know the transformational role they can play in the event of a disaster. This paper offers a framework to provide transformational mercy during such a time.
This paper contains three sections. The first section explores the city of Minot and Our Savior Lutheran Church and discusses how pre-disaster relationships set the stage for transformational ministry. This section then highlights the pivotal role local congregations can play in healing a disaster-ridden community through the tangible compassion of Christ.
The second section examines theological concepts that propelled a church to action when confronted with human suffering. This section reviews seven books that discuss the church’s role in incarnational mercy care and develops a theology of incarnational disaster response through mercy and mission.
The third section provides a practical framework for a local congregation to engage in incarnational disaster response with the introduction of a disaster response handbook. The handbook raises a vision for service following a local disaster and exposes church leaders to multi-faceted opportunities for incarnational mercy care within their community. A plan for implementation is also offered
COLLECTION 0029: Papers of Colin Brown, 1932-2009
Get PDFThe Papers of Colin Brown, 1932-2009 consists of 14 boxes of correspondence with Biblical scholars such as F.F. Bruce, Carl F.H. Henry and G.R. Beasley-Murray conducted during the process of editing of The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology (1986); research notes and proofs of Jesus in European Protestant Thought, related correspondence from 1972 to 1978; reviews of Brown’s publications and other published materials as well as his Systematic Theology and doctoral Seminar course syllabi & lecture notes
COLLECTION 0112: Papers of Lloyd John Ogilvie, 1958-2006
Get PDFThe Papers of Lloyd John Ogilvie, 1958-2006 documents the ministry of Lloyd John Ogilvie with special focus on his years at First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood and his “Let God Love You” radio & television ministry.
The collection also contains prayer manuscripts and special messages delivered by Dr. Ogilvie during his years as Chaplain of the United States Senate as well as personal correspondence.
There are three main components to the collection. The first is a complete collection of Dr. Ogilvie’s recorded sermons and teachings. The second is an extensive collection of Dr. Ogilvie’s sermon notes and manuscripts which compliment his recorded messages. It also includes a complete collection of his senate prayers and Bible study notes from his years as Senate Chaplain. The third component includes the books and articles which grew out of both pastoral and chaplaincy ministries.
The printed materials have been cataloged as the Lloyd John Ogilvie Special Collection
