Describe how a Christian may follow the call to discipleship through daily life and work

So to go back to how the lay ministry can show commitment to Christianity they can show commitment through offering the services listed above or as a member of the lay community to offer guidance and teachings to the home life like using the Christian attitude towards sex, drugs or crime as teachings to friends or family members.

Another way of showing commitment to Christianity as a member of the lay community would be to join a holy order such as the knights of Colombia o the missionary's of charity and go out around the world to help people sick home less or dieing as Jesus did. Or even on the same level but on a different scale; members of the lay ministry could also just help out people within their community by lend a hand as they have the talent to help that person with that problem this could include jobs such as building for youth centers or financial advice for people going through money issue.

All of the issues I have raised above are ways or duty's of how a member of the lay ministry can show commitment to Christianity.

Apostolic and contemplative orders show commitment to Christianity by devoting their lives to god and although is all for the same purpose different religious orders go about it in different ways ie contemplative orders, these orders are enclosed and they live away form city community's in an attempt to devote themselves to prayer and to be able to carry out their life style in peace. They grow their own food as well any other products they have left over they sell for other things they may need.

Other religious order include apostolic orders. These religious orders go out to the world to help people with the skill they have acquired through their lives helping needy people in the community.

All of the issues I have raised above are ways or duty's of how a member of the apostolic and contemplative orders can show commitment to Christianity.

holy orders show commitment to Christianity quite simply by working for god as a messenger on earth the other term for holy orders is the Christian ministry(which comes from the Latin word for service) and there job is to continue Jesus work on earth. The holy orders include Bishops, Deacons, nuns and monk. Each member of the holy orders has a different job. A priest job as member of the holy orders is to serve mass everyday, give advice to troubled people and offer holy communion etc. Where as a Bishops job as a member of the holy orders is to appoint new priests, share news from the Vatican and teach Christian learning to new members of the church. the deacons job is to help priest and their duties.

Of course all of these duty's are important with in the holy orders and they all indivdaly show their commitment to god by giving or devoting their lives and time in the name of god.

Christians join communities and take vows of poverty Chasity and obedience so they can fully devote themselves and their lives to the Christian community therefore each vow has its importance.

The vow of poverty is to show a sacrifice, being able to see past material objects for the church and having the ability to share all material goods with the rest of the holy orders.

Chasity is a vow as a show of commitment, being able to commit you life fully to the church and god as if his his own wife because if you where able to have a wife and family they would be your first responsibility to support them unable you from doing certain duty's that you need to do as a priest for example doing the sacrament of the sick at 3 o'clock in the morning when the priest child may be sick. Therefore Chasity is an important trade of a priest.

Obedience is a vow because as a member of a Christian community needs to follow a rule or rules set from members from higher up in the churches hierarchical structure for example a priest needs to be able to to take orders from a bishop etc. Another example would be when a Christian man gets married he takes a vow of obedience so he does not commit adultery and it is similar for a priest he takes a vow of obedience so he does not "cheat" on the church.

The missionary's of charity was a religious community was founded in the 1950 when women from all around the world came to help mother Teresa in her work. This apostolic order became globally praised when the BBC showed a documentary helping the sick, poor and dying because of the astonishing piece of film people from every started donating time and money to her expanding upon her dream.

Mother Teresa based her life on the example and teachings of Jesus, she felt as if her work on earth was a life calling from god. A vocation. Two parables in particular drove her and they where the parable of the sheep and the goats and of course the good Samaritan these parable where the basis of this apostolic order and mother terse in particular.

The missionaries of charity is a very good example of an apostolic order and really is the perfect examples mother Teresa is a true apostle.

Christians should lead active rather than contemplative lives

Christians can lead two ways of lives in a religious sense either contemplative lives or active lives both have some advantages and disadvantages which in this essay I will be exploring as well as my opinion of with live style is a better way of worshiping god

first off let me start by explaining what contemplative and active life styles with in a Christian community is: a contemplative lifestyle in the Christian community is to exclude yourself away from civilization to get alone with god these sort of life styles involve meditation and silence. People who life contemplative life style usually grow and sell things to stay self sufficient so they do not have to get jobs within community's.

An active life style is more like a regular lifestyle; working within the community to help people using your talents such as building houses for homeless, and using accounting to helping people in financial troubles etc.

Most of my life I believed that the best way of worshiping god was to lead a very solitude life of silent pray, a contemplative life but in researching this I came to change my mind on this as there is more benefits and parables supporting the active life style is the better way of worshiping god such as the parable of the talents which Jesus himself told to the apostles the moral of this parable was if you have a talent don't waste it so to exclude yourself away from a community would be hindering you from sharing or expanding on your talents

on the other hand to live and prayer in complete exclusion from the outside community is a showing true commitment to god and is making a sacrifice as priests and ordainment member of the church do so this is what led me to believe that this was the more accurate way to please god through worship.

On the other hand to be a Christian must be to surely follow the ways of life that Jesus did and on many documentations found within the bible he has be noted going into the community and helping people with his talents weather it was carpentry or weather it was so far as his talents as the son of god e.g. healing the sick curring the blind and preforming many other miracles.

Then again an argument to support contemplative as the best way of worshiping god would be to say there are also documentation within the bible showing Jesus in a state of meditation most notably with the apostles in the garden of Gethsemane.

Another argument to support the active Christian lifestyle would be to say as a member of a active community you can share your talents with the rest of the community as if everyone was to be an contemplative Christian no one would ever help each other and helping each other is another important trade outlined the bible as a parable of Jesus "the good Samaritan"

so in conclusion I belief have had made a potent point that an active life styles is a better way to express your love for god and although both ways are showing a great show of love for your god excluding yourself from a community is not showing a selfless attitude so therefore I belief that active is the right way to go