... time will tell what will become of the small spaces they presently, and will in the future, occupy. Jenkins claims Christianity will grow by millions in the global south by the year 2050. He also maintains the ideas that the average Christian will be neither white, protestant, or from Europe or America like ... modern day middle class liberals. Jenkins makes some very valid and truthful statements in his book, and it is highly regarded as being one of the best books on Christian history, but I myself did not enjoy the book. I found this book to be written in a very confusing manner. In...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... for nothing else." Her weekly routine is Sunday morning service, Tuesday choir rehearsal, Wednesday night Bible Study, Thursday deacon board meeting, and so on. As a child, I was constantly "preached to" by her. She would always chastise me in the ways of the Lord. Always quoting scriptures, saying things like, " you know the Lord is your Shepherd you can do all things ... a good church home, and to tithe, and read Psalms this, and Proverbs that. Even as a child, whenever I wanted something, I had to earn it by memorizing something Biblical like the order of the books of the bible, or a...

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... Christianity is for. He says that the only thing that matters is becoming more like Christ and drawing more people unto Him. In the first chapter of book IV of Mere Christianity, Lewis says, "A man who changed from having Bios to having Zoe would have gone through as big a ... change from just biological life to the spiritual life of Christ, not Theology and doctrine. Many times Christians can turn people away from Christianity just by trying to discuss Theology and doctrines to an unbeliever. That isn't what they need to hear about, they need to hear about Christ and have ... example o...

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