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This paper explores the views of religious moderation and inclusivity in the evangelizing mission of Paul, a major apostle in early Christian society. Through analysis of Paul's letters, especially those related to evangelism, this paper aims to understand how the principles of religious moderation, inclusive attitudes, and the love of Christ became the foundation of Paul's mission of evangelism. This paper also explores the relevance of these principles in the context of evangelism in the modern era. The Apostle Paul's views on religious moderation in the context of evangelistic missions, with a primary focus on the central role of Christ's love in shaping and supporting early Christian evangelistic efforts. Through analysis of Paul's letters, research findings highlight that the views of moderation and inclusiveness promoted by Paul reflect the principles of unconditional love. The love of Christ, at the center of Paul's views, is not only a theological theme but also an intrinsic attraction that influences the hearts and souls of individuals. Paul's inclusive and moderate attitude formed the foundation of a Christian community that was open and welcoming to all levels of society. The implications of this view are highly relevant in designing modern evangelistic strategies that incorporate the love of Christ as a central force.

This research aims to analyze the causes of the high number of contested divorces and to find out solutions to the high rate of contested divorces in the Sukoharjo Religious Court. This research uses empirical research. The research results show that the high rate of divorce is caused by various factors, namely: economic factors, third party factors and moral factors. These three factors are the main causes. The solution to contested divorce is to mediate with the parties and provide legal education to the community regarding the impacts of divorce

This research is entitled "Effectiveness of the Role of Religious Courts in the Implementation of Marriage Age Limits as an Effort to Reduce the Rate of Early Marriage (Study at the Sukoharjo Religious Court in 2024)" which is based on a phenomenon in society related to the rise of teenagers having relationships like husband and wife. to pregnancy out of wedlock at an age that has not yet reached the minimum age limit for marriage. Islamic law does not provide clear boundaries for marriage, it only determines the measure of a person's maturity when they reach puberty. Islamic jurisprudence scholars agree in determining taklif, namely when semen comes out for men and menstruation for women, which is different from Law Number 1 of the Year. 1974 provides a clear age limit for someone to get married, namely 19 years for men and 16 years for women. Marriage dispensation is a grant of the right to a person to marry even though they have not yet reached the minimum marriageable age. Marriage dispensation is regulated in Article 7 paragraph (2) of Law Number 16 of 2019, an amendment to Law Number 1 of 1974 concerning Marriage. Marriage dispensation is an exception to Article 7 paragraph (1), namely that the age limit for marriage for men and women has reached 19 (nineteen) years. This type of research is field research or field research which can also be called qualitative research. Therefore, the author conducted this research at the Sukoharjo Religious Court, regarding data sources the author chose primary data sources, namely data from the court and secondary data sources, namely from several books as references. The data collection techniques used are observation, documentation and archive methods. The approach method used in this research is normative juridical, namely research that begins deductively with an analysis of the articles in the statutory regulations that regulate the above problems. Juridically, this means research that refers to existing literature studies or secondary data used. Meanwhile, normative means legal research which aims to obtain normative knowledge about the relationship between one regulation and another and its application in practice. The method used is a descriptive method by means of document analysis. In other terms it is also called content analysis or information analysis which focuses its activities on document research, analyzing regulations and legal decisions.

Religious communities like Indonesia often discuss religious issues. Determining the Eid al-Adha holiday in 2022 is one of the issues that is receiving attention. As is known, the Indonesian government determines the Eid al-Adha holiday in two ways: rukyat and reckoning. On the Instagram account @kemenag_ri, the Ministry of Religion of the Republic of Indonesia held an Isbat Session Teleconference on June 29 2022, and the results showed that the date set on the calendar had to be changed from July 9 2022 to July 10 2022. Instagram users provided this decision directly. This shows that the religious community has participated and there is agreement in handling the results of the Isbat Session. As an effort to explore the interactions that exist within religious communities, this research uses netnography techniques.

Leaders are simply defined as someone who can move. This definition is increasingly complex in meaning when the leader is considered the top leader in higher education because one of the influences on the transformation of higher education is futuristic leadership, especially visionary leaders who have foresight for the development and improvement of campus quality to be competitive at the global level. This is where relationships, connections, and continuous improvement are needed, driven by higher education leaders who involve all stakeholders.The aims of this research are: 1) To describe the futuristic leadership of IAIDA Blokagung Banyuwangi; 2) Describe the transformation of IAIDA Blokagung Banyuwangi; 3) The influence of futuristic leaders on the transformation of IAIDA Blokagung Banyuwangi. This research approach is quantitative research with a descriptive research type. The data collection methods used in this study were interviews, questionnaires, observation, and documentation testing in research uses data validity tests using the product moment formula, fota reliability tests using the CornbaCronbach formula, for normality tests using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov formula. In data analysis using simple linear regression analysis. After conducting data analysis, it was found that: 1) the futuristic leadership implemented at IAIDA Blokagung was relatively good; 2) The institutional transformation of IAIDA Blokagung as a large pesantren-based campus in Banyuwangi district is also quite good by its efforts to periodically change its form; 3) The influence of futuristic leadership on the transformation of the IAIDA Blokagung Banyuwangi tertiary institution is 21%, while the other 79% is influenced by other factors outside of futuristic leadership. This shows that futuristic leadership is in a low category in influencing the transformation (change in shape) of IAIDA Blokagung Banyuwangi as a pesantren-based campus.

This study aims to analyze performance in the East Jakarta Religious Court using this research method in the Balanced Score Card is a descriptive research that aims to clearly describe the analysis of employee performance through the analysis of growth and learning perspectives, customer perspective analysis, financial perspective analysis and internal business perspective analysis. The results of the research on the performance of employees of the East Jakarta Religious Court with the Balanced Score Card are quite good from the analysis of the internal business perspective of 9.09%, the analysis of the growth and development perspective of work discipline over the past 3 months by 20.5%, then in employees who are given training has increased over the past 3 years by 35.27% and employees who have left have decreased in the last 3 years by 10.82%, then the analysis of the financial perspective for the last 3 months by 0.804. In this study draws the conclusion that there is a significant influence between employee performance and the application of the Balanced Score Card. Because the East Jakarta Religious Court is still experiencing a decrease in outgoing employees because these 4 perspectives are considered not optimal

How important education is today as a human need to be able to grow and develop along with the rapid development of the times. This includes Islamic religious education and character education which is very influential so that children can grow up with good spirituality. Islamic Religious Education and Character Education, especially in schools, are expected to be able to make children learn to respect, respect and love each other, including non-Muslims. In Indonesia itself, the problem of adequate education is not felt by all regions, including Papua. Papua is a Muslim minority area, but despite this, learning about Islamic Religion and Character has been implemented in schools, including at SMP Negeri 26, Sorong Regency, Papua. Therefore, the aim of this research was to find out how Islamic Religious Education learning at SMP Negeri 26 Sorong Regency, Papua was carried out. The research method that the author uses is qualitative using a phenomenological approach. The data collection techniques used were interviews and documentation. From this research it was found that there were 40% of female students who were Muslim at SMP Negeri 26, Sorong Regency, Papua. Even though it is a school with Muslim minority students, the sense of tolerance and mutual respect between people of different religions is very high. The implementation of Islamic Religious Education and Character Education learning at SMP Negeri 26 Sorong Regency runs in accordance with the applicable curriculum, namely the Merdeka curriculum for classes VII and VIII and curriculum 13 for class XI. Learning of Islamic Religious Education and Character at the school is carried out as it should by using Islamic Religious Education textbooks for junior high school and equivalent.    

As a country with different religious backgrounds, this diversity is one of the important advantages in building social harmony and diversity. The value of religious tolerance is also reflected in government policies that prioritize the protection of religious freedom and prohibit discrimination based on religious belief. The importance of religious tolerance in Indonesian society is also reflected in the efforts of the government, non-governmental organizations, and religious communities to encourage interfaith dialogue, strengthen comprehensive religious education, and support interfaith social activities. Through this initiative, Indonesians can raise awareness of the importance of religious tolerance and build a solid foundation for inter-religious harmony. This can be seen from the people in the Cipta Menanggal Block 65 Surabaya environment and the people of Balun Village, Turi, Lamongan. Although the two communities have differences, they have similarities in tolerance, both tribal tolerance and religious tolerance. In addition, celebrations and commemorations of religious days and have similarities in accepting mixed marriages among the younger generation. There is still mutual respect as human beings, as well as religious people

One of the efforts to overcome teacher problems in learning is by educational supervision. Supervision is guidance in the form of guidance or guidance towards improving the educational situation in general and improving the quality of teaching and learning. Supervision is carried out by the Principal (supervisor) whose role is to supervise teaching and learning activities, teacher performance etc. The purpose of supervision is to develop better situations to train the learning process and improve the teaching profession. The study was conducted because researchers wanted to get a better understanding of a special case This research reveals specifically about the implementation of teaching supervision and teacher performance in the learning process of Islamic religious education in MTSN 2 Bengkalis. Based on the entire series of analysis and discussion of data, it can be concluded that the implementation of principal supervision of the performance of Islamic religious education teachers in MTSN 2 Bengkalis is The planning of principal supervision is carried out in a planned, systematic and continuous manner. At this stage the principal determines the name of the teacher to be observed, forms a determination of the time for the implementation of the observation time, compiles an observation grid and determines whether the class observation is known to the teacher or not, this is based on an agreement between the principal and the Islamic religious education teacher. In the implementation of supervision, the principal's attitude did not interfere with the process of learning Islamic religious education in the classroom even the principal at the end of class hours gave motivation to students to continue learning diligently. In the follow-up stage, the results of supervision are discussed jointly between Islamic religious education teachers and school principals who discuss teacher deficiencies in teaching in the hope that in the future teachers can improve them.

Islamic education is a conscious effort that is planned in preparing students to know, understand, internalize, to the process of believing in Islamic teachings in their lives, or it can be said to be an effort to change individual behavior in their personal lives, community life and the surrounding natural life through an educational process based on Islamic values so that later students are able and skilled in running life as an effort to maintain survival and development. For this reason, in writing this thesis, the type of research used by the author is a qualitative discriminatory research method, with emphasis on the power of direct field observation and then analyzing data on existing data sources. And from the results of this study shows that Islamic education and life skills are an inseparable component, because both are a whole unit in relation to life. This research also shows that the concept of life skills can be used as a new direction of Islamic education, by integrating several aspects of life skills with Islamic education. From the results of this study, it can be concluded that the application of life skills can provide abilities, abilities and skills to students both in the field of information technology and religion. As a provision to live their lives, it is expected that every student has personal, rational, social, academic and vocational skills that are integrated in Islamic education.

This article examines how Christian religious education curriculum can be a means to develop students' faith. This study uses a phenomenological approach to explore students' and teachers' experiences in the learning process. Findings suggest that spirituality-based approaches, such as prayer, meditation, and biblical reflection, are effective in fostering deep faith. This article recommends a curriculum model that is more integrated with spiritual practices.

This article examines the potential for integrating digital technologies into the teaching of Catholic religious education. The study analyzes data from interviews with 20 Catholic religious teachers in secondary schools, which indicate that digital platforms can enhance teaching effectiveness and student engagement. However, challenges such as the digital divide and limited teacher training are also identified. This article provides practical guidance for overcoming these barriers and leveraging technology to support the mission of evangelization.

This study tested the effectiveness of an interactive learning model in improving children's understanding of biblical values. With a quasiexperimental design, the study involved 120 elementary school students in three churches. The results showed that interactive approaches, such as roleplaying and group discussions, improved students' retention and engagement. This study suggests the application of an experiential learning model for Christian religious education.

This article explores the role of Catholic religious education teachers in forming a faith-based learning community in schools. Using an educational ethnography approach, this study found that teachers play roles as faith facilitators and agents of social transformation. Through reflective methods and collaborative learning, students are encouraged to live out evangelical values ​​in their daily lives. This article also offers practical strategies for teachers to integrate Catholic values ​​into cross-disciplinary curricula.

The aim of this research is to find out how much influence educational interactions have on student learning behavior in Christian Religious Education learning for class Christian Religious Education for class XI students at SMK Negeri 1 Balige for the 2023/2024 academic year. With a population of all class Data was collected using a closed questionnaire with 46 items compiled by the author based on variable indicators according to expert theory. The questionnaire trial was carried out on 30 respondents of class Y 0.321 – 0.637 (there are 2 question items that have validity less than r table = 0.361, namely item number 33 and 41 so that the invalid questionnaire is discarded. Thus, the valid questionnaire is 44 questions. And the reliability of the questionnaire trial is variable X which is at a value of 0.829 it is in a very strong interpretation, and the reliability of the questionnaire trial of variable Y which is at a value of 0.842 and is in a very strong interpretation and has been tested for validity and reliability. The results of data analysis show that there is a positive and significant influence between Educational Interaction on Learning Behavior Students in Christian Religious Education Learning for Class XI Students at SMK Negeri 1 Balige for the 2023/2024 Academic Year. By testing the relationship, it is obtained that rcount>rttable is 0.524>0.297, with a significant relationship test tcount>ttable is 4.257>2.000, the coefficient of determination is 27.5%. This means that H0 is rejected and Ha is accepted. This research suggests to teachers to always improve educational interactions in learning, so that the learning behavior of Class

The Problem Based Learning learning model is a learning model that begins with giving problems to students where the problems given are everyday experiences or have been experienced by students. Then students solve the problems given to gain new knowledge. It is expected that students are able to learn knowledge related to these problems, as well as students have skills in solving problems. The purpose of this research is to increase student motivation in PAI subjects at Perlaungan Islamic High School. The research method used is descriptive qualitative. The data collection techniques used are in-depth interviews, observation and documentation. Data analysis was carried out through data reduction, data presentation and then drawing conclusions. The sources of data in this study are school principals, deputy heads of curricula, PAI teachers, and students. The results of the study show that: 1. Implementation of the Problem Based Learning learning model in PAI subjects at Perlaungan Islamic High School there are five stages, namely, student orientation to problems, organizing students to learn, guiding educators to search for data on a problem, developing and presenting the work , analyze and evaluate. 2. Student learning motivation, there are two learning motivations, namely, intrinsic motivation, intrinsic motivation there are three indicators namely, there is a desire and desire to succeed, there are encouragement and needs in learning, there are hopes and ideals, and extrinsic motivation, there are five extrinsic motivations indicators namely, there is appreciation in learning, there are interesting activities in learning, there is a conducive learning environment, teacher-student relationships, student-student relationships.    

As time goes by, social media can also be used as a learning medium, there are lots of learning media that can be used by teachers, such as Podcast media on the Spotify application. In the Spotify application there is a feature that can be used to create learning media, namely Podcasts. Therefore, learning PAI using the Spotify Podcast will make students more interested and easier to understand the learning material by playing it many times in the application. This research uses a qualitative method with a literature study approach. Data collection techniques use library data by collecting research related to the topic. Implementing the Podcast feature on Spotify can be a new step for educators/teachers, and is easy to provide students with an understanding of PAI learning.

This research was motivated by cases that occurred in students who behaved negatively and were lacking in religious matters. PAI teachers are central or central in developing students' religious knowledge and practices. Therefore, PAI teachers are required to implement special strategies to reduce and prevent students from carrying out negative behavior that can harm the school and the community environment. This research uses a qualitative research design. The methods used in this research for data collection techniques are observation, interviews and documentation. The next steps are data reduction, data presentation and verification or drawing conclusions. The results of research on the Teacher Strategy carried out by PAI in Increasing Student Religiosity at SMKN 6 Tangerang are as follows: First, understanding is provided by providing information to students regarding knowledge and the nature of good values from the material presented by educators. This process must be carried out continuously so that students can draw on the messages conveyed by educators. As an example of honesty, cultivation is usually carried out during learning activities by linking material and real life. Second, habituation is a strengthening stage of the previous stage, namely cultivation. The function of habituation is as a bonding tool between students' behavior and themselves, the aim of which is to provide deeper and broader understanding. Third, example is a supporting factor in improving students' religious character. An example will be accepted if it is set by someone close to you. Exemplary really prioritizes aspects of behavior in real action.

This research is motivated by the importance of teachers' efforts to change teaching methods and create an attractive teaching atmosphere in the classroom so that students can actively participate in learning in a proactive way. Be active, not passive, to achieve the high learning outcomes achieved by students. The purpose of this study was to determine the strategies of Islamic religious education teachers in improving student academic achievement. This research uses qualitative methods based on field research, research data is collected through observation, interviews, documents, analysis, reduction, presentation and verification of data. The results showed that the PAI teacher's strategy to improve PAI learning is to use "discovery learning strategies" through scientific methods. Using the "Discovery Learning strategy" saw student learning outcomes gradually improve from passive learning to active learning. Students lacking enthusiasm turn into enthusiasm in learning. Through the "Discovery Learning strategy", students can find their own learning material without waiting for the teacher to explain the material.

Religious Courts in Indonesia have unique, complex and interesting aspects, reflecting the diversity of religions and cultures in society. This uniqueness includes the legal basis, the role of religious courts in resolving religion-based conflicts, as well as the various challenges faced in ensuring justice. Religious Courts also present unique and interesting dynamics in the state justice system. The uniqueness of Religious Courts lies in the harmonization of religious law and national positive law, creating a unique and often complex legal framework. This article aims to describe and analyze the unique aspects of religious justice in Indonesia. With a deeper understanding of these challenges, efforts can be directed towards improving and developing the religious justice system so that it remains relevant and effective in handling legal conflicts related to religious aspects in Indonesian society. This research examines the implementation of unique aspects in the religious justice system in Indonesia. The religious justice system in Indonesia has unique characteristics that reflect various cultural, religious and social dimensions in a country with a diverse population. As a country with a majority Muslim population, religious courts play an important role in enforcing family and marriage laws based on Islamic law. This study underlines the importance of understanding the unique aspects of religious justice in Indonesia in the context of a legal state based on the supremacy of law. Ensuring a balance between local values, religion, and national positive law is a complex task, but essential to achieving justice in Indonesia’s rapidly evolving religious justice system.