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Dienste-Communitas

NUWE GEVORDERDE VBO-KURSUS

Gevorderde Sertifikaat in Bedieningsvernuwing Die bedoeling met die gevorderde sertifikaat in Bedieningsvernuwing is om aan leraars wat behoefte daaraan het, ʼn meer inklusiewe en omvattende reeks kursusse aan te bied wat hulle op ʼn veel breër front gaan heroriënteer...

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Great by Choice – Hoe help dit ons in die bediening?

Great by Choice

Jim Collins en Morten Hansen

We cannot predict the future, but we can create it

Organizations .. do not thrive on chaos. But they can thrive in chaos.

Thriving in a chaotic world is not just a business challenge.

Wat maak dat sommige maatskappye [instansies] in voortdurend veranderende tye goed bly presteer en uitstyg bo ander?

Die boek is die resultaat van empiriese navorsing oor hierdie vraag. En die bevindinge is baie waardevol vir enige instansie [ook gemeentes] wat in dieselfde konteks van verandering en dikwels choas moet funksioneer. Die kern van die bevindinge is dat daar veral DRIE uitstaande kenmerke is wat, in kombinasie met mekaar, hierdie instansies in staat gestel het om wesenlik beter as ander te presteer.

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Baptism in the Early Church

Baptism in the Early Church – History, Theology, and Liturgy in the first Five Centuries – Everett Ferguson

Reviewer: Marius Nel
Everett Ferguson’s magnus opus is a comprehensive historical study of the doctrine and practice of baptism in the first five centuries of Christianity. Ferguson’s focus is primarily on early Christian literary sources, though he also pays attention to the depictions of baptism (mostly of Jesus) in various art forms, as well as to the architecture of a number of surviving baptismal fonts and baptisteries. He attempts to be as complete as possible for the first three centuries and “representatively comprehensive” for the fourth and fifth centuries (xix). The primary strength of Ferguson’s excellent study is its comprehensive focus on all the available primary literature, while also surveying (chapter 1) and engaging (in numerous footnotes) the relevant secondary literature on baptism.

Part One covers the antecedents to Christian baptism. Ferguson begins with a discussion of Greco-Roman pagan washings for purification and the role of water in the Mystery Religions (chapter 2). He concludes that while the use of water as a means of purification was common in the religious activities of Greeks and Romans it did not fulfill the same religious role as in Christianity (25). Washings for example, were a preliminary preparation for the initiation into the Mystery religions, while it was the center of initiation into the church (29).

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Renovation of the Heart

Johan Kotze het 'n opsomming gemaak van Dallas Willard se bekende boek Renovation of the Heart. Die doel van die boek word soos volg beskryf: Show that spiritual transformation is possible, orderly, and straightforward Explain how spiritual transformation must occur...

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’n Nuwe tyd vir gewone mense.

Gesprekke oor gedeeltes uit Lukas en Handelinge. Pieter van Niekerk Dit is bedoel vir die gewone mense in die kerk, vir leraars, maar ook vir evangeliste, ouderlinge en ander gemeenteleiers, vir manne en vroue wat leiding moet neem by Bybelstudies ,Pinkster- en ander...

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