Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition – passed on through the biblical authors, the apostles, and their successors – form the deposit of our faith. As the basis for all of the Church’s teaching they also provide the boundary lines for discipleship by illuminating the path that followers of Christ must follow.
This is the second in a five-part webinar series on Christian discipleship. Slides and other handouts can be found at http://bit.ly/BetterDisciple.
Jesus: The Face of Discipleship (Building a Better Disciple Part 1)Jonathan Sullivan
Before understanding how to become a disciple we must first know what a disciple is. Through the person of Jesus Christ we will come to know what it means to claim the name “Christian.”
This is the first in a five-part webinar series on Christian discipleship. Slides and other handouts can be found at http://bit.ly/BetterDisciple.
Liturgy & Prayer: The Engine of Discipleship (Building a Better Disciple Part...Jonathan Sullivan
How do the graces received in the sacraments, liturgical celebrations, and personal prayer fuel our capacity for embracing the call to discipleship?
This webinar is the fourth in a series of adult faith formation sessions for the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois' Catechist Formation Process
Vocation and Mission: The Aim of Discipleship (Building a Better Disciple Par...Jonathan Sullivan
Faith that is not put into practice is sterile. Connecting the themes of the previous webinars we will explore how the faithful participate in the Church’s mission in the world through their particular gifts and calling.
This is the fifth in a five-part webinar series on Christian discipleship.
Christian Community: The Foundation of Discipleship (Building A Better Discip...Jonathan Sullivan
Faith is nurtured and sustained in the context of a community of believers. This session will explore how the Church in various contexts (family, parish, school, etc.) sets the stage for a life of discipleship.
This is the third in a five-part webinar series on Christian discipleship. Slides and other handouts can be found at http://bit.ly/BetterDisciple.
Jesus: The Face of Discipleship (Building a Better Disciple Part 1)Jonathan Sullivan
Before understanding how to become a disciple we must first know what a disciple is. Through the person of Jesus Christ we will come to know what it means to claim the name “Christian.”
This is the first in a five-part webinar series on Christian discipleship. Slides and other handouts can be found at http://bit.ly/BetterDisciple.
Liturgy & Prayer: The Engine of Discipleship (Building a Better Disciple Part...Jonathan Sullivan
How do the graces received in the sacraments, liturgical celebrations, and personal prayer fuel our capacity for embracing the call to discipleship?
This webinar is the fourth in a series of adult faith formation sessions for the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois' Catechist Formation Process
Vocation and Mission: The Aim of Discipleship (Building a Better Disciple Par...Jonathan Sullivan
Faith that is not put into practice is sterile. Connecting the themes of the previous webinars we will explore how the faithful participate in the Church’s mission in the world through their particular gifts and calling.
This is the fifth in a five-part webinar series on Christian discipleship.
Christian Community: The Foundation of Discipleship (Building A Better Discip...Jonathan Sullivan
Faith is nurtured and sustained in the context of a community of believers. This session will explore how the Church in various contexts (family, parish, school, etc.) sets the stage for a life of discipleship.
This is the third in a five-part webinar series on Christian discipleship. Slides and other handouts can be found at http://bit.ly/BetterDisciple.
Memory Verse
•Bible Reading
•Introduction
•The Identity of the Holy Spirit-Who is the Holy Spirit?
•The purpose of the gifts of the Holy Spirit
•The revelational gifts
• the words of wisdom
• the words of knowledge
• discerning of spirits
Catholic Schools: Centers of the New EvangelizationJonathan Sullivan
My presentation from the 2014 National Catholic Educational Association Convention and Expo:
For fifty years the Church has exhorted the faithful to engage in a “new evangelization.” The call to be missionaries is especially relevant for Catholic schools where young people are formed as disciples of Christ. This presentation for Catholic school teachers and administrators helps focus their work in the context of the New Evangelization. Participants will gain an understanding of the New Evangelization and learn steps for integrating it into the classroom and school community.
Recognizing the salvific force those living in poverty have in Christ, and putting them at the center of the Church. The poor call us to ponder the mysterious wisdom of God, often revealed to us by their very lives.
This might help you to inform your mates about the sacrament of holy orders. This might be more efficient to be your report and it'll impress your teacher. If you'll like this, a big hand for you. God Bless you more! <3
Memory Verse
•Bible Reading
•Introduction
•The Identity of the Holy Spirit-Who is the Holy Spirit?
•The purpose of the gifts of the Holy Spirit
•The revelational gifts
• the words of wisdom
• the words of knowledge
• discerning of spirits
Catholic Schools: Centers of the New EvangelizationJonathan Sullivan
My presentation from the 2014 National Catholic Educational Association Convention and Expo:
For fifty years the Church has exhorted the faithful to engage in a “new evangelization.” The call to be missionaries is especially relevant for Catholic schools where young people are formed as disciples of Christ. This presentation for Catholic school teachers and administrators helps focus their work in the context of the New Evangelization. Participants will gain an understanding of the New Evangelization and learn steps for integrating it into the classroom and school community.
Recognizing the salvific force those living in poverty have in Christ, and putting them at the center of the Church. The poor call us to ponder the mysterious wisdom of God, often revealed to us by their very lives.
This might help you to inform your mates about the sacrament of holy orders. This might be more efficient to be your report and it'll impress your teacher. If you'll like this, a big hand for you. God Bless you more! <3
Perspectives Lesson Five: Unleashing the Gospel -- 202002MarkTab Ministries
Delivered to the Perspectives class in Statesboro, GA on February 20, 2020
In this lesson we will see how God launched the World Christian movement. We will discover that the Church is a double structure that endures to this day. We will watch how ordinary people chose a strategy of suffering which they learned from Jesus and will consider how we can live with that same apostolic passion. We will examine the biblical grounds of hope for an enormous in-gathering at the end of the age.
Winter, Ralph. Perspectives on the World Christian Movement: Reader and Study Guide - eBook . William Carey Library. Kindle Edition.
Where Two or Three are Texting: Incarnation & Sacrament in a Virtual WorldJonathan Sullivan
The young people in our schools and parishes are increasingly citizens of a virtual world where they carry out many traditionally “physical” activities, including living out their faith! Other Christian communities are experimenting with “online church.” What is an "online church" and is it an option for Catholics? How does the "digital continent" influence the way we prepare young people and catechumens to receive the sacraments?
This webinar will explore these questions and offer some avenues for appropriate use of digital technologies in living our faith.
Christ's final command was to "make disciples of all nations," a command we continue to respond to in our Catholic schools and religious education programs. But how are we to evangelize in a culture that is apathetic -- if not hostile -- to religious faith? Using the Year of Faith as a backdrop, this session will explore the history and meaning of the New Evangelization with an emphasis on practical strategies for parishes and schools.
This presentation was given at the 2012 CACE Annual Meeting in San Diego.
The Book of Joshua is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, and is the first book of the Deuteronomistic history, the story of Israel from the conquest of Canaan to the Babylonian exile.
The Good News, newsletter for June 2024 is hereNoHo FUMC
Our monthly newsletter is available to read online. We hope you will join us each Sunday in person for our worship service. Make sure to subscribe and follow us on YouTube and social media.
What Should be the Christian View of Anime?Joe Muraguri
We will learn what Anime is and see what a Christian should consider before watching anime movies? We will also learn a little bit of Shintoism religion and hentai (the craze of internet pornography today).
The PBHP DYC ~ Reflections on The Dhamma (English).pptxOH TEIK BIN
A PowerPoint Presentation based on the Dhamma Reflections for the PBHP DYC for the years 1993 – 2012. To motivate and inspire DYC members to keep on practicing the Dhamma and to do the meritorious deed of Dhammaduta work.
The texts are in English.
For the Video with audio narration, comments and texts in English, please check out the Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF2g_43NEa0
The Chakra System in our body - A Portal to Interdimensional Consciousness.pptxBharat Technology
each chakra is studied in greater detail, several steps have been included to
strengthen your personal intention to open each chakra more fully. These are designed
to draw forth the highest benefit for your spiritual growth.
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way.pptxCelso Napoleon
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way
SBs – Sunday Bible School
Adult Bible Lessons 2nd quarter 2024 CPAD
MAGAZINE: THE CAREER THAT IS PROPOSED TO US: The Path of Salvation, Holiness and Perseverance to Reach Heaven
Commentator: Pastor Osiel Gomes
Presentation: Missionary Celso Napoleon
Renewed in Grace
Homily: The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity Sunday 2024.docxJames Knipper
Countless volumes have been written trying to explain the mystery of three persons in one true God, leaving us to resort to metaphors such as the three-leaf clover to try to comprehend the Divinity. Many of us grew up with the quintessential pyramidal Trinity structure of God at the top and Son and Spirit in opposite corners. But what if we looked at this ‘mystery’ from a different perspective? What if we shifted our language of God as a being towards the concept of God as love? What if we focused more on the relationship within the Trinity versus the persons of the Trinity? What if stopped looking at God as a noun…and instead considered God as a verb? Check it out…
In Jude 17-23 Jude shifts from piling up examples of false teachers from the Old Testament to a series of practical exhortations that flow from apostolic instruction. He preserves for us what may well have been part of the apostolic catechism for the first generation of Christ-followers. In these instructions Jude exhorts the believer to deal with 3 different groups of people: scoffers who are "devoid of the Spirit", believers who have come under the influence of scoffers and believers who are so entrenched in false teaching that they need rescue and pose some real spiritual risk for the rescuer. In all of this Jude emphasizes Jesus' call to rescue straying sheep, leaving the 99 safely behind and pursuing the 1.
Scripture & Tradition: The Boundaries of Discipleship (Building a Better Disciple Part Two)
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4. Jonathan F. Sullivan
• Director of Catechetical
Services, Diocese of
Springfield in Illinois
• Originally from Kansas City
• Married, 6 (+1) children
• www.JonathanFSullivan.com
6. A few reminders…
• This series will not just be
“information delivery”
• More personal, reflective
• Opportunities to respond – so
please participate!
7. Overview
10/13: Jesus
10/20: Scripture & Tradition
10/27: Christian Community
11/3: Liturgy & Prayer
11/10: Vocation & Mission
10. God
Special
Revelation
General
Revelation
Sacred
Scripture
Creation
Natural
Law
Sacred
Tradition
Prayer
Apparitions
Public
Revelation
Private
Revelation
12. Kerygma
• “preaching”
• Shorthand for the
basic Christian
message
• E.g., John 3:16
• Focus of Christian
revelation is Jesus
Christ
• Both Old and New
Testaments
Carl Heinrich Bloch, “The Sermon
on the Mount”
14. Sacred Scripture and
Sacred Tradition
• Sources which help
us from falling into
error
• Tell us what we
should believe
(orthodoxy)
• Tell us how we are to
act (orthopraxy)
• Lay out the
“boundary lines” of
discipleship
16. Rules: Oppression vs. Freedom
Sovereignty of Christ
• Jesus as Lord
• St. Paul and Christian
Freedom
• Freedom from
• Freedom for
Modern Culture and
“Rules”
• Restrict personal
autonomy
• Exercise of
oppressive power
17. Aids in Discerning the
Boundary Lines
• Liturgical Rites
• Lex orandi, lex
credendi
• Catechism of the
Catholic Church
• Local catechisms
(USCCA, YouCat)
• Natural Law
• Personal Experience
18. What aids or resources
have you found helpful in
learning about the
Christian faith?
19. Called to Share
• Christianity is not a self-centered religion
• Preaching implies the preacher and those
who hear the preaching
• “How beautiful are the feet of those who
bring the good news!”
• New Evangelization
20. Old Evangelization
• Overseas missions
• Raising money for
“pagan babies”
• Enrolling in the Church
21. New Evangelization
• Proposed by Paul VI,
enacted by St. John
Paul II, Benedict XVI,
Francis
• New historical
situation
• Relentless focus on the
person of Jesus Christ
22. No participation in
the faith; may or
may not be actively
hostile to religious
faith
Occasionally
participate in faith
activities; irregular
Mass attendees
Intentional and
regular participation
in their faith life
The (largely secular)
institutions and
communities in which
lay people participate
Regular participants;
may or may not be
actively seeking to
become disciples
23. The Kerygma Demands a
Response
James Tissot, “The Exhortation to
the Apostles”