NAME: Dany Darma Putra NIM: 109014000157 CLASS: III D
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Book Title : WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO COMMITMENT?
Author : Edward R.Dayton
Publisher : Zondervan. USA
Date Published : In 1984
Number of Page : 234 pages
Chapter1 : What ever happened to commitment?
I think, this chapter describes about introduction of the commitment, connecting or related between commitment and religion.
Chapter2 : Our American World
Base on my mind, I think this chapter talks about problems between Christian religion and American people in America
Chapter3 : How Americans think
In my opinion, I think, this chapter describes about opinion of American people or how they think toward The Christian religion.
Chapter4 : I am me !
I think, this chapter describes about to make the Americans aware or realized about who really they are.
Chapter5 : American Relationship
I think, This chapter talks about the way of Americans in relationship and it impacts toward sharing the Religion in the country.
Chapter6 : What’s the world like, America?
I think, this chapter explains about how Americans think toward the values of life, they have different thought with the Christ Religion concepts.
Chapter7 : American and Christianity in the beginning
I think, this chapter talks about the history of Christian religion came in to the America in the beginning or at first time.
Chapter8 : The making of a civil religion
I think, this chapter talks about, how European people came and shared the Christian religion in America.
Chapter9 : A new world view
I think, this chapter talks about the new shape of American world after being changed or accompanied by Christian religion.
Chapter10 : How do we respond?
I think, this chapter describes about responding of American people against the Christian religion.
Chapter11 : Commitment to the community
I think, this chapter talks about persuading of Christianity so that American people to be the one, not separated, in order to they become stronger with hold Christian religion.
Chapter12 : The cost of community
I think, this chapter explains that, Christian had a principle that community is better than separated, and it had the best value to be community.
Chapter13 : Where to begin
In this chapter, I think, it talks about what should they do to begin to hold the Christian religion, and this is such as their few first step to a longest journey.
Chapter14 : Living life
I think, this chapter talks about differences among fellowship communities in this world, they are to be different caused by different cultures and societies. This chapter also teaches Christians how to make the living to be better.
Chapter15 : What of tomorrow
I think, this chapter talks about the culminates of the Christian religion in the past and they hope the kingdom of the Christ will come back.
TABLE OF CONTENT:
Chapter1: What ever happened to commitment?
A. Progress report
B. But something is wrong
C. Meanwhile, back at the world
D. What ever happened to commitment?
Chapter2: Our American World
A. It is not something we think about
B. Americans are different
Chapter3: How Americans think
A. How Evangelicals think
B. Facts are facts, are not they?
C. Cause and effect
D. Legalism or license
E. Judge one thing by another
F. The world is a big machine
G. The great god technology
Chapter4: I am me !
A. Self-centeredness
B. Everyone needs to be motivated
C. Doing rather than being
D. You can do it!
Chapter5: American Relationship
A. Getting involved with people
B. Everyone is equal
C. Confrontation
D. Fair play
E. American want to be liked
F. Introspection and self-criticism
G. Roles
Chapter6: What’s the world like, America?
A. Progress
B. What about people?
C. Change
D. The denial of death
E. Material comfort
F. Avoidance
Chapter7: American and Christianity in the beginning
A. The historical accident
B. The new idea – the individual
C. Three view of church and state
D. In the world but apart
E. Christian calling
F. Unlimited wealth
G. Competition
H. Freedom
Chapter8: The making of a civil religion
A. The great awakening
B. The Enlightenment
C. The seed of revolution
D. The Constitution
E. Institutionalizing the kingdom
F. Yankee ingenuity and interchangeable parts
Chapter9: A new world view
A. The result of pluralism
B. Cultural isolation
C. Rewriting history
D. The technological fix
E. Cause and effect
F. The last one hundred years
G. But what of the present?
Chapter10: How do we respond?
A. Three levels of commitment
B. Commitment to self
C. To what local church am I committed?
D. Turn it upside down
Chapter11: Commitment to the community
A. Where do we begin?
B. The characteristics of Christians
C. What does every local fellowship do?
D. What is community?
Chapter12: The cost of community
A. Some obvious objections
B. Some not-so-obvious objections
Chapter13: Where to begin
A. Begin with God’s word
B. Begin with a group
C. Explore gift together
Chapter14: Living life
A. Learning to trust
B. Learning what is important
C. Learning to know myself.
D. Learning to fight materialism
E. Learning to be accountable
F. Learning to reach out
G. Learning about marriage
H. Learning to accommodate families
I. Learning to move deeper into Christ
Chapter15: What of tomorrow
A. How shall we live?
B. Secular society examines itself
C. Christians society examines itself
D. The call to commitment
E. Commitment is community.
Questions
Chapter 1 : What ever happened to commitment?
1. Sub Title : Progress report
Question : what kind of the progress report?
Answer : this report is kind of explanation of how the Christian religion be published in the country, and it was going well at the time.
2. Sub Title : but something is wrong
Question : why is something wrong?
Answer : because American people did not follow all of the Religion roles, they became greedier of wealth,
3. Sub Title : meanwhile, back at the world
Question : what is back at the world?
Answer : Back at the world is about American thinking, they think the rest of the world is the most important.
4. Sub title : what ever happened to commitment?
Question : what ever happened to commitment?
Answer : in this book, there are mentioned, the family had time to care, and the pastor had time to care, it’s kind of commitment to be responsible.
Chapter2 : Our American World
1. Sub Title : It is not something we think about.
Question : What is something not think about?
Answer : It is different between we see ourselves with others do, so we can find the truth about ourselves by looking from others.
2. Sub Title : Americans are different
Question : Why are Americans different?
Answer : Americans are different because the forces at work in the world when the U.S. was founded were unlike those of any other period in history.
Chapter3 : How Americans think
1. Sub Title : How Evangelicals think
Question : How the Evangelicals think?
Answer : It’s same way as most middle-class Americans.
2. Sub Title : Facts are facts, are not they?
Question : Facts are facts, are not they?
Answer : Yes they are
3. Sub Title : Cause and effect
Question : What are the Cause and the effect?
Answer : Cause is the thing makes something occurs, and the effect is the result.
4. Sub Title : Legalism or license
Question : What is the Legalism or license?
Answer : Legalism and license are a response to American culture
5. Sub Title : Judge one thing by another
Question : why does one thing judge other?
Answer : Because one thing can’t judge itself by itself, it needs to be judged by other.
6. Sub Title : The world is a big machine
Question : Why is the world called a big machine?
Answer : Because, The world is rational, machinelike. Events can be explained. We can determine the reason certain things occurred. We assume the World is mechanistic and material. The sun will come up tomorrow. The law of gravity will still apply. We may not be able to control earthquakes today, but someday we will understand how they work.
7. Sub Title : The great god technology
Question : What is The great god technology?
Answer : The great god technology is individual,
Chapter4 : I am me !
1. Sub Title : Self-centeredness
Question : What is the Self-centeredness?
Answer : Self centeredness is a bad behavior, the owners of this behavior are too confident of themselves, looking for information by our selves, not depend on other. This behavior can’t or be difficult to accept opinions from other.
2. Sub Title : Everyone needs to be motivated
Question : Why does Everyone need to be motivated?
Answer : Because the motivated is like a power for one self, in order to be success, so everyone need the motivation.
3. Sub Title : Doing rather than being
Question : What does “Doing rather than being” means?
Answer : We have a need to be active and energetic. We can’t just keep dreaming, but we must make the dreams come true.
4. Sub Title : You can do it!
Question : What can I do?
Answer : You can do what you want by yourself, not depends on other people, it’s different with American thought, they prefer to do something with other people together.
Chapter5 : American Relationship
1. Sub Title : Getting involved with people
Question : How to Get involved with people?
Answer : We can get involved with people in our surrounding. Examples, we have Class mates, we have office friends, we have business friends, we have shopping friends, we have church friends, and we can get involved with them.
2. Sub Title : Everyone is equal
Question : Why is Everyone equal?
Answer : In theory, everyone is equal, everyone is treated the same. But when confronted by such a bureaucracy, we feel as though we are “being treated like a number” we want everyone else to be treated equally, but we want to be treated specially, or “more equally”.
3. Sub Title : Confrontation
Question : what is Confrontation?
Answer : Confrontation is kind of compare or blame someone with the result that he or she to be hurt.
4. Sub Title : Fair play
Question : What is Fair play?
Answer : Fair play is to Play by the rule
5. Sub Title : American want to be liked
Question : Why do American want to be liked?
Answer : Because they have desire to be appreciate by other, the people who are most liked and have many friends, their lives are wonderful.
6. Sub Title : Introspection and self-criticism
Question : What are Introspection and self-criticism?
Answer : Introspection and self-criticism is criticism by other to improve ourselves so that be better. Self-criticism is expected and highly valued.
7. Sub Title : Roles
Question : What are Roles?
Answer : Roles are everything that we must follow unless will get punishments.
Chapter6 : What’s the world like, America?
1. Sub Title : Progress
Question : What is Progress?
Answer : progress, then, quite often means the achievement of physical comfort, good health, material possessions and a high standard of living.
2. Sub Title : What about people?
Question : What about people?
Answer : It’s very difficult for people of America to believe that people in other cultures make no distinction between the individual self and the group self. But though Americans perceive themselves as individuals, American individualism is something quite different.
3. Sub Title : Change
Question : What is Changed?
Answer : American culture has institutionalized change as has no other society. This willingness to change, to discard the past, colors the American view the world.
4. Sub Title : The denial of death
Question : What is denial of death?
Answer : The attempt to make it as harmless as possible and to keep it at arm’s length.
5. Sub Title : Material comfort
Question : What is Material comfort?
Answer : Material comfort is a characteristic of people who comfort of material, certainly, we need the material, for example, what would we do if there were no service organization to call when we need help?
6. Sub Title : Avoidance
Question : What is Avoidance?
Answer : Avoidance is closely couple with living in the “now” if we can live for now, we can avoid thinking about the future.
Chapter7 : American and Christianity in the beginning
1. Sub Title : The historical accident
Question : What is The historical accident?
Answer :
- First, the early settlers were generally superior in intelligence, determination, and ambition.
- Second, although some settlers before the middle of the eighteen century were French and Dutch, most were English. They spoke one language, which in itself, became a unifying force, and had one culture heritage.
- Third, there American settlers were backed by an English empire that was rapidly expanding and had a great deal of a capital to risk.
- Fourth, the abundance of land and natural resources in America, coupled with shortage of labor, quickly eliminated, the possibility of importing Europe’s feudal system with its aristocratic privileges.
- Fifth, enough significant strides had been made in shipbuilding and in the art of navigation.
2. Sub Title : The new idea – the individual
Question : What is The new idea – the individual?
Answer : Salvation was achieved only through individual faith in Jesus Christ, the only mediator between God and men.
3. Sub Title : Three view of church and state
Question : What are the three views of church and state?
Answer :
- The idea of Luther and Calvin had spread at a time to free itself from the church of Rome.
- In the midst of these struggles were English separatists state should be allowed to exist.
- One large of churchmen was willing to recognize a state church but was persuaded that the ritual and prayer book of the church of England had no place in Christian life.
4. Sub Title : In the world but apart
Question : why is it in the world apart?
Answer : because their tendency on one hand was to escape the corruption of the world by isolating themselves from it. On the other hand, the temptation to be a part of the world threatened to contaminate holiness. The tension between these two position was and is crucial to Christianity.
5. Sub Title : Christian calling
Question : How does Christian call?
Answer : Introducing its self.
6. Sub Title : Unlimited wealth
Question : What is unlimited wealth?
Answer : Unlimited wealth is a willing of someone to be better.
7. Sub Title : Competition
Question : What is the competition?
Answer : Competition in European societies was socially unacceptable, but in the new world, individualism combined with unlimited wealth permitted competition.
8. Sub Title : Freedom
Question : What is the freedom?
Answer : this is about freedom to be an individual, freedom to govern own’s own affairs, freedom of religion.
Chapter8 : The making of a civil religion
1. Sub Title : The great awakening
Question : What is the great awakening?
Answer : just when it appeared that christianity in America was a lost cause, the holy spirit intervened in such spectacular ways that the resulting phenomenon became known as The great awakening.
2. Sub Title : The Enlightenment
Question : What is The enlightenment?
Answer : The Enlightenment was the logical result of the thinking of the English scientist Isaac Newton and the philosopher Jhon Locke.
3. Sub Title : The seed of revolution
Question : What is The seed of revolution?
Answer : The seed of revolution is the new education, new colleges and universities in the USA.
4. Sub Title : The Constitution
Question :What is the Constitution?
Answer : According to Benjamin Ffranklin, The Constitution is the existence of the Diety; that he made the world, and govern’d it by his Providence, that the most acceptable service of God was the doing of good to men; that our souls are immortal; and virtue rewarded, either here or hereafter.
5. Sub Title : Institutionalizing the kingdom
Question : What is the Institutionalizing the kingdom?
Answer : Institutionalizing the kingdom is The doctrine of the kingdom of God, which have been built by the first Americans, had within it the seeds of its own destruction.
6. Sub Title : Yankee ingenuity and interchangeable parts
Question : What are the Yankee ingenuity and interchangeable parts?
Answer : Yankee ingenuity is invented new ways of obtaining more resources in less time, thereby accumulating wealth.
Chapter9 : A new world view
1. Sub Title : The result of pluralism
Question : What is The result of pluralism?
Answer : changing the government. People be treated “equally” and be seen as having equal value.
2. Sub Title : Cultural isolation
Question : What is the Cultural isolation?
Answer : Culture isolation is a manner to make their culture apart or separated from other cultures in the world. This also led to an ignorance of other cultures and other countries, which Americans viewed as “strange”.
3. Sub Title : Rewriting history
Question : What is the Rewriting history?
Answer : Rewriting history is kind of remembering our experiences in the past to face and continue our lives in the present and future.
4. Sub Title : The technological fix
Question : What is The technological fix?
Answer : The technological fix is a way or a manner to make something real, and how to make something effectively we use the technology.
5. Sub Title : Cause and effect
Question : What are Cause and effect?
Answer : Cause is the thing makes something occurs, and the effect is the result.
6. Sub Title : The last one hundred years
Question : What happened in the last one hundred years?
Answer : The religion no longer played a significant role in the shaping of American culture.
7. Sub Title : But what of the present?
Question : But what of the present?
Answer : Now is better than the past
Chapter10 : How do we respond?
1. Sub Title : Three levels of commitment
Question : What are Three levels of commitment?
Answer : the first; commitment to God in Christ, the second; to our spouse and we have when we come to Christ , a commitment to the church.
2. Sub Title : Commitment to self
Question : What is Commitment to self?
Answer : This is a backward from what we are learning from our culture, which is telling us that our first commitment must be to ourselves. God’s word comes at it from different viewpoint, but The best is we have to put the first commitment on to God.
3. Sub Title : To what local church am I committed?
Question : To what local church am I committed?
Answer : So that there will be fellowships in the local area.
4. Sub Title : Turn it upside down
Question : Why is it turned upside down?
Answer : Christian commitment starts as an individual thing. One becomes committed to Christ. But that commitment is transformed to a commitment to the living body of Christ, a commitment to brothers and sisters who are fellow their to the kingdom.
Chapter11 : Commitment to the community
1. Sub Title : Where do we begin?
Question : Where do we begin?
Answer : Unique. this may seem like a strange place to begin, Local, Intimate, Fitted together, Gifted, Spirit-market, A family affair,
2. Sub Title : The characteristics of Christians
Question : What are The characteristics of Christians?
Answer : The characteristics of Christians are:
- Christians are to love one other
- Christians are to forgive one other
- Christians are to teach one other
- Christians are to be subject to one other
- Christians are to be together
- Christians are to be hospitable
- Christians are to honor one other
- Christians are to be concerned for one other
- Christians are to confess to one other.
3. Sub Title : What does every local fellowship do?
Question : What does every local fellowship do?
Answer : There are every local fellowship do :
- A community builds itself up
- A community is willing to die
- A community seeks to identify gifts
- A community gather together for fellowship
- A community seeks to he taught
- A community rightly divides the sacred and the profane
- A community seeks to understand how it is being coerced by its culture and seeks to respond appropriately
- A community permits differences in others
- A community is on a journey not at its destination
- A community is worldly
- A community believes it is building God’s kingdom
- A community set some apart.
4. Sub Title : What is community?
Question : What is community?
Answer : Community is a group of people who each knows about their relationships with others and they work together and organize together.
Chapter12 : The cost of community
1. Sub Title : Some obvious objections
Question : what are the obvious objections?
Answer : Some obvious objections are
- It’s scary. I don’t want to lose my identity
- I am not ready for the simple lifestyle
- A group such as that can become legalistic. I don’t want to live by a bunch of dos and don’ts
- I might lost my job to change it
- I can’t be accountable to others
- there are a lot of strange Christians around and I don’t get along with many of them
- what happens if we grow? Won’t we lose the closeness we have worked so hard to achieve?
2. Sub Title : Some not-so-obvious objections
Question : What are not-so-obvious objections?
Answer : Some not-so-obvious objections are:
- Inwardness
- Outwardness
- Communication
- Organitation
- Cost
Chapter13 : Where to begin
1. Sub Title : Begin with God’s word
Question : What Begins with God’s word?
Answer : Begin with God’s word is the first time we learn Christ, the first time we get information about the Christian religion.
2. Sub Title : Begin with a group
Question : What Begin with a group?
Answer : searching for people whom you feel comfortable with,
3. Sub Title : Explore gift together
Question : What is Explore gift together?
Answer : Explore gift together does not only mean giving something material, but beside that, the good gift is our support, example: the teacher gives learning to his student, the pastor give gift kind of support to his Christians.
Chapter14 : Living life
1. Sub Title : Learning to trust
Question : How to Learn to trust?
Answer : Trust comes when we discover we can tell another our joys and aches without that person condemning our feelings or trying to solve our problem. Trust comes when we accept others as they are. Trust comes when in an unguarded moment, we reveal part of ourselves that we have always kept secret and we find that the other person is just as concerned about keeping our confidence as we are.
2. Sub Title : Learning what is important
Question : why is the Learning what is Important?
Answer : Because, without the knowledge, wealth is nothing.
3. Subtitle : Learning to know myself.
Question : How to learn to know myself?
Answer : If we want to know our own selves, we have to accept the evaluation from other toward our selves. That is an opportunity to know ourselves.
4. Sub Title : Learning to fight materialism
Question : How to fight the materialism?
Answer : The manner to fight the materialism is to learn to be not greedy of material. We have to give and share our wealth to other.
5. Sub Title : Learning to be accountable
Question : How to be accountable?
Answer : The ways of how to be accountable are to pray for one other, commitment to certain time and place.
6. Sub Title : Learning to reach out
Question : How to learn to reach out?
Answer : The way to reach out is, to share Christian with other
7. Sub Title : Learning about marriage
Question : How to Learn about marriage?
Answer : The way of Learning about marriage is we are supposed to know each other before the marriage, so that we have a high commitment to enter into it.
8. Sub Title : Learning to accommodate families
Question : How to accommodate families?
Answer : The way how to accommodate families is about how to raise children, to be a place where children feel at home, and make a good family.
9. Sub Title : Learning to move deeper into Christ
Question : Tow to move deeper into Christ?
Answer : We have to hurt to see friends on disaster, we have to want to be found in Christ, we have to live in Christ. To be loved in Christ,
Chapter15 : What of tomorrow
1. Sub Title : How shall we live?
Question : How shall we live?
Answer : We must understand how to live, that is to be in Christ, and to consider that everything good is from God.
2. Sub Title : Secular society examines itself
Question : What is secular society examine itself?
Answer : Secular society examines itself means examination about economy, culture, and it is our culture and our economy are on opposite courses that while the culture calls for freedom, the economy calls for constraint.
3. Sub Title : Christians society examines itself
Question : What is Christians society examine itself?
Answer : Christians society examines itself means how Christians view themselves.
4. Sub Title : The call to commitment
Question : What is The call to commitment
Answer : There have always been both sedentary and “set apart” groups of Christians that were committed to one another.
5. Sub Title : Commitment is community
Question : Why is Commitment called community?
Answer : Commitment is community, because To have a commitment in Christ, we have to join to a community, so we can share the Christ together and do worship together, as we know, God has called us to be in Christ, to be members of one another. So to be members of another is our commitment to hold Christ together.
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