Prevention of Apostasy Through the Implementation of Community Bible Study Program

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10.2991/assehr.k.200311.027How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Holy Bible Study program, prevention of apostasy, implementation in community

Abstract

One of the problems that occur in society is that many Christian communities have been apostated to other religion across from their former religion. The steps prepared by Christian teachers have not been maximized so that each community becomes spiritually mature and has a Christian character. The purpose of this study is to find out that the Bible Study Program in the community contributes to preventing the apostasy especially for Christian. This type of research is a qualitative, there wer five informants who were interviewed to find out the reasons for apostasy. The results showed that those who have apostated were caused by their not understanding of having interpretation upon the Holy Bible is the only words of God, did not have a strong foundation of faith. It was found that by community Bible study program, the society can get self confidence/esteem in possessing Christian faith, the most suggested way to prevent apostasy.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Martua Manik
AU  - Binur Panjaitan
AU  - Liyus Waruwu
AU  - Benny Hutahaean
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/03/13
TI  - Prevention of Apostasy Through the Implementation of Community Bible Study Program
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Education, Society, Economy, Humanity and Environment (ICESHE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 139
EP  - 143
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200311.027
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200311.027
ID  - Manik2020
ER  -