Challenges and Opportunities of Physical Education in Five Selected Evangelical Theological Colleges of Addis Ababa
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2011-05
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This study attempts to find out the opportunities and challenges of physical education in five Evangelical theological college found in Addis Ababa. Physical education, physical exercise, sport and play are the most similar words for many people around the world that put them in to dilemma. It is easy to see and hear they say one word saying the other one, even though Christianity and physical activity and education has positive relationship from Bible, it seemed two of them are like enemy. For many centuries celebrations and festivals had traditionally revolved around the church and its fasting days due to creating positive relationship among members, families and communities. After a while due to many reasons celebrations and festivals forced to be stopped. In our days living becomes very fast and short. This makes man to become machine (car, train, air plane, washing machine, electronics, etc) dependent or oriented, which forces man to become idle, this pushes man become sick due to having less activity. The best solution to minimize or avoid the problem at certain level is using Evangelical theological colleges, hoping this will change their way of behavior towards physical activity. Being a believer of the word of Holy Bible does not mean being inactive. We can have many individuals from the Bible who were very accurate, sharp, fit, fast, strong etc. it known that the Bible is written for our knowledge and learning ,which means we must learn only spiritual and but not physical
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Physical Education