PRAYER AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON CHURCH GROWTH

 

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

1.1       Background to the Study.

           This study deals with Prayer and its Implications on Church Growth: A Case Study of Assemblies of God Church Ekpoma II Section. Prayer is the act of communicating with a supernatural being (God) for the purposes of worshipping, requesting guidance and assistance, confessing sins, as an act of reparation or to express one’s thoughts and emotions. The words of prayer may take the form of intercession, a hymn, incantation or a spontaneous utterance in the person’s praying words. The instrumentality of prayer, if properly utilised can enhance the wellbeing of the individuals and the church. The effectiveness of the weapon of prayer can no longer be doubted in growing our churches today...

1.2       Statement of the Problem.   

            A prayerless minister, member and church will be a powerless and a stagnated church. They will become very hard to grow a church.  In Assemblies of God Church Ekpoma II  Section, it seems most people have wrong notions on prayer that can grow a church. Even if they pray, their prayers remain on a personal and rhetorical level that cannot cause church growth. One of the impediments of a stagnated church has been attributed to laziness on the part of ministers and members, lackadaisical attitude and weak prayer life, little regard to prayer, wrong perception on prayer. All these constitute impediments to the prayer life of the church, which make it difficult for a church to grow. Powerful and effectual fervent prayer will directly increase the effectiveness of the church for growth. These barriers necessitated the need for this study.

1.3       Purpose of the Study

The purpose of this study is to examine Prayer and its Implications on Church Growth: A Case Study of Assemblies of God Church Ekpoma II Section. It will include the concepts of prayer and church growth, ascertaining the characteristics and importance of prayers in the church, the challenges churches encounter in prayer and the implication of prayer on church growth.

1.4       Research Questions.

1.   What is Prayer?

2.   What is Church Growth?

3.   What are the characteristics of prayer?

4.   What are the importance of prayer in the church?

5.   What are the challenges affecting the prayer life of the church?

6.   What are the implications of prayer on church growth?

1.5       Significance of the Study     

            This study is of immense benefit to the church, Pastors, church members, theologians and researchers. To churches it will be of immense benefits to them, in that it will help the church to understand the manner and ways to pray acceptable prayers and to channel their prayers for growth. To Pastors, it will guide them on how to pray acceptably for growth. To the church members it will show them the proper way to pray and will serve as a foundation and a guide for their spiritual empowerment. To the theologians, it will increase their perspective and knowledge on effectiveness of prayer to church growth. And to the researchers, it will create a platform for going into further studies on prayer.

1.6       Research Procedure

The researcher made used of library and field investigations.  Data was collected through questionnaire and oral interviews that will be distributed to respondents in Assemblies of God Church Ekpoma II Section for the purpose of gathering information through prepared questions and examined for true representation. The research study will be predominantly library, internet and field investigations. This research was conducted to achieve the goals and objective of this research study.

1.7       Delimitation of the Study

This study was centered on Prayer and its Implications on Church Growth: A Case Study of Assemblies of God Church Ekpoma II Section. Assemblies of God Church Ekpoma II Section is located at Ekpoma with about 700 members.

1.8       Definition of Terms

Prayer: is an act of communication between man (expressing his/her desire) to God.

Implications: the action or state of being involved in something.

Church: is a place where Christians assembles together to reverence, pray and worship God among others.

Growth: is the stages of development of something.

Church Growth: is a systematic improvement and advancement of the church in all ramification.

CHAPTER  TWO

REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

This chapter review literature that are related to the research study...........

CHAPTER THREE

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

This chapter captures the methodology and procedure applied to gather relevant information for this research study. It comprises of research design, population and sampling, research instrument, validity of the Instrument, administration of instrument and method of data collection and analysis......

 

CHAPTER FOUR

 

PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS OF DATA AND DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS

The focus of this chapter is to present the findings obtained from the data collected and to discuss the analysis made out of the research questions.......

 

CHAPTER FIVE

SUMMARY, CONCLUSION, RECOMMENDATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER STUDIES

This chapter consists of summary, conclusion, recommendations and suggestions for further studies which is as follows:.…...

 

 

 

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