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curso pastor oratória One more putting topic for that church's consideration is: Theological Education and learning will be the bed-rock of Sustainable Advancement. Theology is not a fresh willpower within our continent permit by yourself discuss about Sierra Leone. Theology may be the bedrock in the academic basis of our place, as could possibly be claimed for virtually any other place. Inside the 18th Century an institution was started to the instruction in the clergy along with other lecturers for Missionary perform inside the sub-region of West Africa. This faculty before long turned renowned for all its really worth and excellence. Just before prolonged other theological faculties of the mother nature sprang up in Sierra Leone. As a way to be pertinent and add to improvement, Christian theology must be exciting and functional. Theology has to interact with all situations and other people. In talking about theology and the difficult task or conditions it addresses, John W. De Gruchy, Professor of Christian Research at Cape City College, writes: 'In such conditions theology must be living and relevant to Ministry; there is neither the time nor the room, or perhaps the inclination for Theological abstraction or dilettantism. Additionally, theology beneath such circumstances can not be trendy, superficial or peripheral on the central themes on the Gospel and Christian tradition, or unrelated towards the historic context and its cries, for then it's going to are unsuccessful to provide the resources required for Ministry.' Theological Educational institutions have in the past educated people to the multifaceted Ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ. The products are serving in various capacities in Sierra Leone and about the entire world. Even so, the colleges have to continue evaluating on their own vis-à-vis their Mission Assertion and Objectives in an effort to see no matter whether they're even now appropriate for the community they purports to be serving. In look at on the aforementioned, I might prefer to attract your attention to some important areas of theology: one. Theology that advocates for social and political reform; 2. Theology that transforms the lives of men and women; three. Theology that solves ecclesiastical issues. They are not new but we appear to own possibly forgotten or neglected them. So, I'm advocating that we revisit these aspects: THEOLOGY THAT ADVOCATES FOR SOCIAL AND POLITICAL REFORM: Practically all of the terms underneath this section are of comparable significance - theology (the research or discourse about God or faith); advocate (to support or plead for); social (being forced to do with culture or its business, anxious with mutual relations of human beings); politics (science and art of government; political affairs or existence). Taking the that means of all these words into account, we are simply declaring that theology has that God-given duty to speak for or plead on behalf of people who advocated for social and political change: (1) Samuel - Samuel's roles have been that of Prophet, Priest and seer. Modern theologians, youthful and aged, female and male must not shrink back from these roles. When they do, they will be icy chilly in the thick of the struggle and will not ultimately realize success. When the men and women were deceived by imitative politics, Samuel stood firmly in his tripartite position between God and people, proclaiming and decoding fearlessly but truthfully Jehovah's brain in regards to the complete situation using into account what repercussions incorrect determination may possibly being upon the people within the present and future. (2) Nathan - Nathan, the fearless and established advocate of justice no matter on the circumstance and place from the person to get confronted nailed King David's conscience on the wall with all the parable on the rich man who had exceedingly several flocks and herds of the bad male who had nothing (2 Sam. 12:1-25). The Prophet's terms of confrontation. "Thou will be the man" set David on his knees. (3) Elijah - Elijah, the Tishbite, ministered in a distinct predicament, in Samaria when he confronted the renegade and apostate King, Ahab. His prophecy of drought which arrived true and his subsequent challenge to the Monks of Baal re-affirmed the title of Yahweh because the Almighty God. There are many other advocates of God while in the bible who labored for social and political reform inside of their very own communities, like Nehemiah, Ezra, Ruth, Esther. I've occur across several advocates of God in East Africa and that i have also heard about many in South Africa in the course of and after the apartheid regime. But our theologians in Sierra Leone seem to get lukewarm, lethargic and indifferent to what transpires for their people. They preach and advertise pocket theology. THEOLOGY THAT TRANSFORMS THE Lives Of men and women - The essence of theology is religious transformation. People who go through a four-year course in a theological establishment like RTS should allow theology to endure them. When that takes place, despite the fact that one may well not be one hundred % excellent, on can be a lot more distinct than he/she first came. We'd seem with the lives of two personalities who aided remodel the life of folks by their witness:
