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ANALISIS MEMELIHARA KASIH PERSAUDARAAN TERHADAP PERTUMBUHAN KEROHANIAN DAN PENGINJILAN DI GEREJA MASEHI ADVENT HARI KETUJUH WILAYAH JAILOLO MALUKU UTARA BERDASARKAN FALSAFAH IBRANI 13:1

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ABSTRACT Thesis Title : “ANALISYS OF PRESERVING BROTHERLY LOVE ON SPIRITUAL AND EVANGELIC GROWTH IN SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH REGION JAILOLO NORTH MALUKU BASED ON HEBREW 13.1.” Researcher Name : Delvis Makatika Name and Title : Master of Science of Philosophy (M.Fil) Supervisor : Dr. B. D. Nainggolan, MPS. End Date : April 2019 The church is a means used by God to carry out His mission to save people. The church is called to preach about God and His deeds to people who have fallen into sin so they can get back to know God and get salvation. Jesus said, "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." John 17.3. God is love and those who are called to introduce God must grow in love for Him and for others. The Apostle John wrote, "Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. "1 John 4: 7, 8. This is proven throughout biblical history that every people of God who truly believe in Him have love for their neighbor, both their brothers and sisters. the people around them. Starting from Abraham, Joseph, David and Jonathan, their great faith in God led them to grow in love for God and for their neighbor. God is love and those who are called to introduce God must maintain brotherly love among them so that people know that they are disciples of Jesus as Jesus said in John 13:35 "By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another." This is what the Apostle Paul affirmed in several of his letters so that the disciples of Jesus, Christians will continue to love for one another, which is then called again in Hebrews 13: 1, "Let brotherly love continue." By maintaining brotherly love, a Christian will grow to perfect love like Jesus so that he not only loves his brothers and sisters in faith, but loves others to be led to Jesus Christ to obtain salvation. This research was made by the author with the following objectives: first, to find out the understanding of church members about the meaning of maintaining brotherly love in church life, second to find out the understanding of church members about how important it is to maintain brotherly love in church life, third to find out if there are the influence of maintaining brotherly love in the church towards the spiritual growth of church members and fourth to find out whether there is an effect of maintaining brotherly love in the church towards the growth of evangelism in the church. This research is expected to increase the awareness of church members about the importance of maintaining brotherly love that affects spiritual growth and evangelism. Theoretically, this research is expected to be an academic reference material and can be used as input for administrators or church employees, church members and the development of knowledge in the field of spiritual services in general in promoting spiritual growth and evangelism in the congregation. This research is expected to be a reference for churches, church officials or employees in understanding the effect of maintaining brotherly love for spiritual growth and evangelism in the church based on Hebrews 13: 1. In addition, with the writing of this thesis, God's people are expected to be more aware of the meaning and importance of maintaining brotherly love in spiritual growth and more effective evangelism in the congregation. The research was held at the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Region Jailolo North Maluku in Manado and North Maluku Conference with the aim that the congregation experiences spiritual growth and evangelism through nurturing brotherly love. The method used in this study is library data and field data made through descriptive methods and the mechanism of data collection is used by distributing questionnaires. The results showed that there was an effect of maintaining brotherly love for spiritual growth and evangelism of members of the church with a percentage of 87%. Looking at the average score of each question with a high score shows that each respondent understood that maintaining brotherly love significantly affected the spiritual growth and evangelism of Seventh-day Adventist Church member Region Jailolo North Maluku. The final part of this writing is the conclusion of the research in the field, the implications and suggestions of the authors so that the results of this study have an influence on the spiritual growth of church members when members understand correctly the meaning of maintaining brotherly love and the importance of maintaining brotherly love and applying it to church life.