Part one of term paper
s "In Christ, we who are many form one body and each member belongs to all the others"(Romans 12.5). From that definition, human's innate need to bond together is apparent, providing the basis of a community. In the religious sense, a community can be described as the interaction between a group of individuals. All communities need disting ...

Part two of term paper
... be said as effectively in any other medium. It focuses, displays, enacts, creates, remembers and transforms" (Paden 120). Rituals, whether they are directly inside the church service or reaching beyond into the surrounding community, have the ability to transform God's will into feasible actions. In Spring Hills Baptist church, a large emphasis is placed on the community and it's rituals. In order to define the community within Spring Hills, one must examine the rituals and service and ...