Especialidades JA/Evangelismo bíblico/Respuestas
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Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/beinatleast/es
Nota: Sería ventajoso seguir esta especialidad con la especialidad de Evangelismo personal.
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Aunque su pastor es una persona muy ocupada, es probable que le dará la bienvenida cuando visite a otros. Pregúntele con suficiente tiempo antemano para que pueda elegir el día en que puede ir con él. Sea paciente - puede que no tenga nada listo inmediatamente. Confíe en su juicio - es un profesional. No hay necesidad de hacer todas estas visitas el mismo día - pueden ser distribuidos en varios viajes. Recuerde sus modales durante las visitas y que es un representante de su club, su iglesia y su Salvador.
Antes de que vaya, véase las notas para los requisitos 6 y 7c.
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Juntas de iglesia usualmente se reúnen una vez por mes. Una vez más, recuerde sus modales y que está representando a su club. Asegúrese de que haga arreglos con su pastor para asistir - no simplemente aparezca en la reunión. Juntas de iglesia muchas veces se ocupan de asuntos confidenciales, sensibles y se puede pedir ser despedido durante esas partes de la reunión.
Also keep in mind that unless you are a member of your church board, you will not be able to vote on any of the business that comes up during a church board meeting. If you are a baptized member of your church, however, you may (and should) vote during a church business meeting.
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A person's membership in the Seventh-day Adventist Church is usually with a particular local church into which they were baptized or accepted by transfer. Either way, the local church members vote in each member. Sometimes, when they are connected to an organized local church an individual's membership will be with the local "conference church" such as when the member is part of a company (group of believers not yet recognized as a church) or because the member lives in an isolated location from any local church.
The local church is an independent body invested with the authority to make most of its own decisions. The pastor of the local church, however, is an employee of the local conference, and will answer to the Conference President.
The local church forwards all tithe money it collects to the conference, and these funds are used to pay the salaries of all pastors and conference administrative employees. School teachers are also conference employees, but their salaries are paid from tuition and other resources rather than from tithe. Conference officers (President, Vice Presidents, Treasurer, etc.) are voted into office at a Conference Constituency meeting. Each church in a conference selects and sends its own delegates to the these meetings.
Several local conferences in a region make up a Union. Each Union has its own administrative staff and a slate of officers. Adventist colleges are usually associated with a Union and funded at the Union level.
Unions are grouped into Divisions, and each Division also has its administrative staff and officers (President, Vice Presidents, Treasurer, etc.). Again, the officers are voted into their positions at a constituency meeting. There are thirteen Divisions in the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and together they form the General Conference. This is the highest level of government in the Adventist Church. Every five years the General Conference holds a constituency meeting called a GC Session to decide matters important to the denomination and to elect its officers (a President, several Vice Presidents, Treasurer, etc.).
The levels are:
- Member in Local Church (for example the Chilliwack Adventist Church)
- Local Conference/Local Mission covering a geographical area (example British Columbia Conference of Seventh-day Adventists which covers BC and the Yukon territory)
- Union or Union Mission or Union Equivalent (example The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada)
- Division of the General Conference (Canada is part of the North American Division)
- General Conference covers the whole world territory and is comprised of the various Unions.
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You should be able to find this information by talking to your church treasurer. Any member of your church's Finance Committee (if your church has one) will also be able to help you with this. Some churches budget fixed percentages of their income for certain expenses, while others budget fixed amounts. Still others will use a combination of these two approaches, paying fixed costs first, and then budgeting the remainder by percentages. If your church budgets fixed amounts, you can calculate the percentages yourself as follows:
[math]\displaystyle{ Percentage = \frac{budget\ for\ item}{total\ budget} \times 100 }[/math]
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- a. ¿Cómo es su rutina diaria?
- b. ¿Cómo es su rutina semanal?
- c. ¿Qué educación se requiere para ser un ministro?
- d. ¿Qué educación fuera de teología complementa un ministro?
- e. ¿De qué recursos se le paga al pastor?
- f. ¿Cuál es la parte más gratificante de su ministerio?
- g. ¿Cuál es la parte más difícil de su ministerio?
- h. ¿Cuáles son los beneficios vocacionales que una esposa de pastor debe tener?
- i. ¿Cómo supo que Dios lo llamó al ministerio?
- j. ¿Cómo puedo saber si Dios me está llamando al ministerio?
- k. ¿Cómo realiza ganancia de almas?
- l. ¿Cómo entra el evangelismo en su ganancia de almas?
- m. ¿Qué consejo le daría a alguien que está pensando en convertirse en un ministro?
If you are traveling with your pastor to meet requirement 2, this would be an excellent time to ask him these questions. Otherwise, you will need to set up an appointment with him. Be sure to take notes during your discussion so you can refer to them as you write your report.
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If your church is presenting a youth evangelistic series, volunteer to help out. If not, perhaps you could organize a series yourself or with other members of your Pathfinder club or AY Society. The ShareHim program is designed to allow laypersons to offer a complete evangelistic series, either close to home or overseas.
Participating in the presentation can mean leading out in front of the congregation or working behind the scenes. Both are important.
- Leading out
- This could be preaching, presenting special music, or providing testimony about your own Christian experience.
- Behind the scenes
- This could be running the PA system, controlling a slide show, operating a spot light, videotaping the program, or even podcasting the series over the Internet.
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7c
A well-functioning church publicly prays for hospitalized members. Pay close attention to the prayers in your church to find out who is sick. It is also totally acceptable to visit non-church members who are hospitalized.
Talk to your pastor, an elder, a deacon, or a deaconess in your church to find out if they are going on a hospital visit and ask if you can come along. If they are not going, offer to go yourself. If they do not think it wise that you join them, respect their judgment.
Do not arrive unannounced. It is better to call ahead. Talk to either the patient or someone close to the patient about scheduling your visit. Do not put the visit off for too long either, as hospital stays are getting shorter and shorter all the time. It is not unusual for a patient to be sent home within two days of having major surgery. For this reason it may be better to be on the lookout for a person scheduled to be admitted to a hospital rather than for someone who has already been admitted. They could easily be discharged before you can arrange a visit.
When you get to the hospital you may need to turn off your cell phone. Look for any notices to that effect and comply with them.
It is best to not bring a large number of people with you when making a hospital visit. The rooms are small, and the hospital will limit the number of visitors allowed in the room. Furthermore, sick people are often not comfortable visiting with a large crowd. Be sure to obey any direction given to you by the hospital staff. Do not make noise. Remember that there are other patients there who need their rest.
Keep the visit brief and be alert for any signs that the patient wants you to leave. The patient may be too polite to make such as wish known to you. If you detect any hint that you should leave, do so graciously and do not take offense. Hospitalization is not a pleasant experience, and people frequently prefer to maintain their privacy. The patient may also tire easily and not be in a mood to visit. It is difficult to get a good night's rest in a hospital, as it buzzes with activity 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Because your visit may be short, it is best to begin presenting your devotional thought as soon as you can. Be polite and ask how the patient is doing before diving in, but don't chit-chat for very long before getting started. When the devotional is finished, close with a prayer and leave while the presence of the Holy Spirit still lingers. It is better to say your goodbyes before having the prayer.
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This can be done during any number of events including:
- Pathfinder Sabbath
- Camp out
- Induction Ceremony
- Investiture Service
- Regular Sabbath worship service
You can turn almost any Bible study into a sermon, as they generally present a thought or an idea in an organized manner. Make notes on index cards and take them to the pulpit with you. If you are uncomfortable, practice your sermon ahead of time. Open and close your sermon with a short prayer, and pray with another person in private before taking the pulpit. When citing Bible texts, give the congregation time to find the passage - repeat the book, chapter, and verse a couple of times. Speak clearly, with plenty of volume, and enunciate your words. Remember that no one in the congregation is there waiting for you to fail - they all want you to succeed! They are on your side.
The ShareHim program has complete sermons ready to use, complete with graphics to project on a screen.
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Make arrangements with your Club Director well in advance of the camp out. If you can connect all four of these devotionals with a common theme, all the better. Consult a daily devotional book for ideas. Many are available at the Adventist Book Center.
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This is an ideal option if you attend or live near an Adventist school. These devotionals can be presented to the entire school, to a single classroom, or to a small group that meets before, during, or after school. They need not last more than 10 or 15 minutes.
Talk to the school principal or a teacher well ahead of time. She may want to know exactly what you are planning before approving it, so go in knowing what you are going to say. Better yet, have an outline of your program prepared ahead of time.
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- a. Ser un ujier.
- b. Recoger la ofrenda.
- c. Ayudar en las reuniones de los niños.
- d. Tener la lectura bíblica o la oración.
- e. Ayudar en montar y desmontar del lugar de la reunión.
- f. Repartir los programas, volantes, panfletos, etc.
- g. Dar su testimonio de qué ha hecho Cristo recientemente por usted.
- h. Ser un saludador.
- i. Ayudar operar un quiosco de Conquistadores mostrando qué la iglesia puede ofrecer
para sus jóvenes.
- j. Invitar a una persona no adventista a asistir las reuniones y estar con él durante el
evento.
- k. Preparar una mesa de bienes horneadas (panes, etc.) para compartir como regalos o
muestras para los asistentes.
- l. Contactar al menos 10 individuos por teléfono o en persona invitándolos a asistir a las
reuniones.
- m. Participar en al menos dos estudios bíblicos con al menos un «interesado».
- For your choice of the above, a thorough preparation is needed. Where applicable, outlines or memorized material should be used. A reading of the presentation is not permitted.
You can get a patch for the Pathfinder Evangelism Award from Florida Conference or AdventSource or through your local conference.
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Read Matthew chapters 5-7, which cover the Sermon on the Mount, and chapter 31 of The Desire of Ages which contains Mrs. White's commentary on it. You should also read Thoughts From the Mount of Blessing.
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One way to show this is by keeping a devotional journal. Summarize what you have read, making sure to record any Bible verses or other reading material studied. Be sure to record the date as well.
If you like, you can record your journal on a blog so that others may read it on the Internet. You may even plant a seed this way without knowing it!
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