Non-denominational Christianity

Visiting St. Paul’s Parish Princeton For this field observation project, I chose to attend the 5pm Sunday service at St. Paul’s Parish in Princeton. Growing up in the Pentecostal tradition, I have become at home in free worship and contemporary liturgy. Most of the church’s I’ve attended in the past had many informal elements in their liturgy, designed to make new-comers feel a little less awkward and part of the church family. As a new Methodist, I have found many Methodist churches…

The Called & Forgiven: Let each and everyone of us live our individual life according to the requirements of Christianity. It is required of genuine Christian not to harbor grudge. Matthew, 5:-44 "But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hates you, and pray for them who despitefully use you, persecute you." Let no anger, grudge, or arrogance fill the Temple of God in you. We must always remember the purpose of our individual callings. Ephesians,…

The presenting client, Melissa, is a single 32-year-old non-denominational Christian. She attends a small Christian church in her rural town. Recently she has been under pressure for not being married, as being married and raising a family are something she wants, and strongly emphasized in her culture and religion. She has been wondering why “God has waited so long to bring a partner into her life, why He has not answered her prayers.” Although she lives in a small town and attends a small…

‘Post-Christian’” (Klausen, 2005, pp. 554). Secularism is still at the forefront of European politics, but there is not enough evidence to suggest that religion does not play an important role in Europe. For example, only two countries have a majority of non-believers, Sweden, and what used to be East Germany (Klausen, 2005, pp.554). This suggests the opposite of what some believe to be a gradual irrelevance of religion. If religion did not hold any more value, then certainly more countries…

Baptist church has strived to form a Christian community that is established in both Scripture and Spirit crafted to best spiritually form Christians to live God’s calling for their lives. While there are numerous factors that differ us from our denominational brethren, I regard Believer’s Baptism, Authority of Scripture, Spiritual Conversion, and Evangelism as the “B.A.S.E.” or foundation of Baptist Identity. Believers’ Baptism The most apparent practice that separates Baptists from many…

H. Edward Pruitt starts 100 Years of Theological Convergence: Edinburgh 1910 to Lausanne 2010 with an introduction. In this introduction, he starts off with his thesis; “This thesis argues that a theological convergence developed out of the ecumenism that existed within the Edinburgh 1910 Global Missions Conference, and that this ecumenism grew from Edinburg 1910 until the Lausanne Movement that began in 1974, at which point it began to flourish” (Pruitt 5). He then defines some terms and lists…

Christianity. It is a single word with great and powerful meaning, but one that is defined differently by people of many different denominational backgrounds. According to Dictionary.com, christianity is “The religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. Christians believe that Jesus Christ is the Messiah, sent by God. They believe that Jesus, by dying and rising from the dead, made up for the sin of Adam and thus redeemed the world, allowing all who believe in him to enter heaven.…

According to Twiss, the first main concern he has in the book is the Native’s lost culture. I agree that in the old days, missionaries have tried to convert the locals Christianity, and they injected Western culture into the locals as well. However, I believe that current missionaries are very good with respecting the other cultures. The current mission practices respect the diversity in cultures. For example, I attend a church that has multiple campuses in many countries. Every year, the church…

The King Jesus Gospel Book Reflection Joshua Helms GLST 220-001 9/22/15 The Gospel is an interesting topic that seems to be an endless discussion for pastors, professors, and theologians. It is essentially a spiritual glue that holds us as Christians together in order to seek after God. My personal understanding of the Gospel was bland before taking GLST 220 and I am grateful to have a better understanding of it now. As Christians, we should always be seeking how to fully understand the…

have an official affiliation with a particular denomination, we identify with churches that were born out of the American Restoration movement of the 18th and 19th centuries. The Restoration movement was a movement that sought to restore simple Christianity as a way to address the growing problem of division within the Christian church. It’s most basic appeal was for churches to come together, return to the Bible and establish a unity based on New Testament principles and teachings. The…