The New Salem Association of the Old Regular Baptist was established in the year of 1825 in Eastern Kentucky. The New Salem Association is still going strong today. Most associations today are a branch from the New Salem Association. There are a few Old Regular Baptist churches that are private; basically they do not belong to any association. The New Salem Association is in correspondence with several other Associations which is as followed Union, Old Indian Bottom, Sardis, Philadelphia, Northern New Salem, and Friendship. I have been to several different types of denominations over the course of my life time. I was raised to go to where the Lord felt was right for me. So, as I was trying to decide what I wanted to write my research paper about the New Salem Association of the Old Regular Baptist stood the most. I find the New Salem Association of the Old Regular Baptist to be very interesting. Their beliefs stand out the most to me. The New Salem Association of the Old Regular Baptist has many different beliefs. Such as, the New Salem Associations believes that the preacher is called by God, and not chosen by men. Some religions and denominations believe in paying people to preach sermons to them. The New Salem is completely different they are willing to preach to the congregation, and not receive any money from them. They believe that they are paid through God by blessings. The preachers are schooled entirely from God and not from a seminary school (Huff, Carolyn). The New Salem also believes that when they preach, the words come from God and not man. The other associations of the Old Regular Baptist also believe this to be true as well. The New Salem Association does not believe in using instruments when they si... ... middle of paper ... ...ing that all of the negative criticism just makes them stronger. References Burnett, John.”Before Churches Had Songbooks,There was ‘Lined-Out’ Gospel’.” October 15, 2013. 12 April 2014. http://www.npr.org/2013/10/15/234606252/before-church- songbooks-there-was-lined-out-singing. Huff, Carolyn.”The Old Regular Baptist.” 11 April 2014. http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~duncanrw/theoldregularbaptists.htm Osborne, David. Rasin’ Cane in Appalachia.Appalachia: Tafford Publishing, 2013. http://books.google.com/books?id=bvWPUDkPI2UC&pg=PA369&lpg=PA369&dq=a+List+of+the+articles+of+faith+the+new+salem+association&source=bl&ots=JmFTFqCgFM&sig=YOGw1xIJ_xCYGGlcZPS9ZO7fNpw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=b_5JU9DqJKGi2gWRyIGYCA&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=a%20List%20of%20the%20articles%20of%20faith%20the%20new%20salem%20association&f=false
Roswell Street Baptist Church was once a slave plantation, but now seeks to reach intercultural, and intergenerational body of believers. Martin encourages not to be entrapped by nationalism, but to adopt the view Christ has which is His people, from all nationalities. Marin states, “Indeed, if all nations and all peoples would look to to God and acknowledge God as sovereign, there would be relative international order, harmony, and peace.” (Martin, 212, 2004) Roswell Street Baptist church has the history chains of being a “white supremacist” church that judged anyone: Latino, Muslims, and those with dark skin. Through the years their hearts have changed.
Although the history of Haslett Community Church may not be as long and storied as other churches, it is nevertheless a rich history. The roots of our community church began to grow on March 23, 1954 when several persons met at the home of Conrad and Rose Haney to discuss the need for a new church in Haslett. An open meeting was held at the Township Hall on March 31, 1954 to plan for a church. At that meeting, forty-nine people elected a steering committee and planned for services. One month and two days later on April 25, 1954, and one week after Easter, one hundred forty five people attended the first worship service and Sunday school above the old Township Hall and fire station on the northeast corner of Haslett and Okemos Roads. For the first year or so, guest ministers provided most of the sermons. Occasionally there would be a fire call and the siren would blow, interrupting the service. This always delighted the young children.
The Amish people, who are considered as conservative Protestants, believe in the readings of the bible. Most Amish people also have the Martyr’s Mirror, which is the book of Amish history and tells about the Amish, Mennonites, and Anabaptists who died for their faith. There is also a newspaper that many Amish and Mennonite communities use called the Budget, which is still p...
Rebecca Nurse and her husband, Francis, were both well-respected people in the town of Salem Miller describes. They owned about three hundred acres, and after a land dispute with the Putnams, they broke away from Salem and founded Topsfield. Miller mentions that the founding of Topsfield upset the old Salemites. This is true - aberration was resented in Puritan society. The essence of Puritanism is in the intensity of the Puritan's commitment to a morality, a form of worship, and a civil society strictly conforming to God's commandments . Certain Puritans were “saved” despite their sins, while the remainder of society led lives strictly following the saved clergy’s interpretations of God’s will. Salem’s minister, Mr. Samuel Parris, was God’s man, as unfit for this title as he may have been. Like Proctor, Rebecca and her husband no longer hungered for religion when Parris became their minister. Their disgust for Mr. Parris cut down on their church appearances. In a judgmental, religious town as Salem was, even an unpleasant minister was no excuse to avoid church. A few Salemites resented the Nurses for their rise in social status as their lands stretched through town.
George Burroughs became the Minister of Salem around the year 1680. He and his wife
In my paper I will talk about my visit to The Community Church at Murphy's Landing (CCML). I have chosen this particular Church because it is a family church type and my neighbor goes there and she encouraged me to go with her. I went there with my neighbor on April 6, 2014.This church is an appropriate for this assignment because the people there are welcoming me with an open heart and they are willing to help and provide me with information. When I visit the Church’s site I read these words “We know visiting a new church can be intimidating. But, we want to help you to be as comfortable as possible when and if you join us”. The people gather in the church weekly to glorify God in joyful worship. The expressions of worship on CCML take many forms a prayer, a hymn of reverent awe, a guitar ringing with a chorus of praise, or a warm handshake and a welcoming smile. Their weekly services begin at 9:30 each Sunday at church. Also, they have weekly podcast if anyone wants to listen online. They have many types of services for parents, kids and students. People at CCML were so friendly; they gather around me and start welcoming me, one by one. People there introducing themselves to me, one after another and provide me with their contact information and help. Then we start talking about the church services and Christianity in particular. The mission of CCML was knowing, growing and loving. They seek to live out our mission by worshipping together as a local community of believers, growing in spiritual maturity through discipleship, education, and small groups, caring for one another within the context of the larger church body and small groups, and Communicating the love of Christ to our world, both through local outreach and global mis...
In Walter B. Shurden’s The Baptist Identity, he looks at four of the core elements, or freedoms, that shape and mold Baptist theology and their identity. The four core concepts he explores in his book are Bible freedom, soul freedom, church freedom, and religious freedom. While looking at these four values, he examines how they mold and shape the Baptist identity and how they came to be. The origin to each of these values in the Baptist tradition is addressed as well as their benefits and draw backs. He explains their purpose and necessity in the Baptist denomination and how it effects the denomination as a whole.
The religious rules were set up for the purpose of strengthening the core Christian beliefs among the Salem villagers. One person who had a prominent contribution in the spread of Christianity throughout Salem village at that period was Reverend Samuel Parris. At that time, church membership was restricted to children whose at least one parents were in full spiritual union (Ray, “Satan’s War against the Covenant” 74). Most of the villagers who were wishing to be baptized did not fall under this constricting criteria, and thus most of them could not become a member of the church. As the church was not legally established between 1672 and 1689, it lacked an ordained minister, and thus most villagers were neither baptized nor communed (Ray, “Satan’s War against the Covenant” 75). Communion was restricted and in order to receive communion one must undergo elaborate procedures. After receiving communion, one was observed for one month, and if for any reasons one exhibited immoral character during that time, he was deprived of the privilege of communion and was permanently excluded from receiving baptism. They were also banned and disgraced from the church (Ray, “Satan’s War against the Covenant” 76). At first, the church did not differentiate between members and non-members and everyone was warmly welcomed to the church. But after the start of the Convent by Parris,
On May 8, 1845 in Augusta, Georgia, the Southern Baptist Convention separated from the Triennial Convention. However, this separation involved only the home and foreign mission societies. Many churches in the South continued to buy Sunday school materials from the American Baptist Publication Society in Philadelphia.
"Church Statistics and Religious Affiliations - U.S. Religious Landscape Study - Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life." Church Statistics and Religious Affiliations - U.S. Religious Landscape Study - Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. N.p., n.d. Web. 4 Oct. 2013. .
New Hope Missionary Baptist Church (NHMBC) began in 1987 in the living room of Reverend and Mrs. Leroy Mitchell. After pasturing a church in Sycamore for nine months, Rev. Mitchell and all members from Dekalb were excommunicated due to underlying friction between African-Americans from Sycamore and those from Dekalb. For the next year, the core members held services at numerous locations, finally settling at a local Seventh Day Adventist Church which became New Hope home for the next twelve years.
Any time we hear the word 'Amish' we automatically think of 'old fashioned' people but let’s talk about the most important thing, their religion. The Amish dress very plain, believe in adult baptism, live off the land, and don't believe in conformity. Anabaptism emerged around the Reformation era, thats the time period when Bibles were first being published in languages for ordinary people. The people began to study their Bibles more and more then eventually decided to live exactly how the first people did. Since Anabaptism began the same period as Protestantism, Anabaptism is often confused with Protestant or is often thought of as a branch off the Protestant church. Actually Anabaptists are not Baptist at all because Baptists are Protestant. Now that we know what religon the Amish really are, we can talk about the different rules that come with that religion, this set of rules is usually unwritten but passed down from generation to gerneration by practice or oral tradition, the church leader wil...
The society of Salem is a very Patriarchal Society where the men have power over the women. Husbands control their wives and children, males work and earn money, males control the high court and because of the Patriarchy they also run the church itself, another source of power.
Looking at his most recent mug shot, no one would guess that Warren Jeffs was once a prophet and leader to a church with nearly ten thousand members; without Warren’s dark brown hair and the suits he commonly wore, Warren could be passed off as any other hardened criminal. Despite the dramatic change in his appearance, it is speculated that the convicted sexual predator still manages to maintain control over his people. While the FLDS Church followers believe that Warren is the one and only mouthpiece of God today; the Jehovah’s Witnesses, on the other hand, have a governing body of seven men that lead their denomination. The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society is “the oldest and most important of the corporations of the Jehovah's Witnesses”, and the President of the Society used to be part of the governing body. However in October 2000, the current president Don Alden Adams, resigned from the governing body to take on a purely administrative role which has no influence on the doctrine. (WatchTower.org) Adams is considered to be a 50-year veteran of the Jehovah’s Witnesses and like Warren, Adams grew up with his current religion. (Ostling) Don and Warren slightly resemble each other with their long faces, prominent noses and thin framed glasses, however without their shared belief in a god, their appearance is the extent of their likeness. Just as the FLDS Church and the Jehovah’s Witnesses both share a belief in a higher power, they differ greatly in their origin, doctrine, and practices. By comparing these denominations, it will become clear why one is more popular than the other.
was developed by Ellen G White whose writings is held highly in what they believe, in the 9th century during the Millerite movement. Some of the theology goes along with the evangelic beliefs of the Trinity and ineffability of scripture, believing that the bible is free of errors on issues of faith and practice. Some of the main teachings are the unconscious state of the dead which is the belief that the soul sleeps unconsciously during death of the body and its resurrection on Judgment Day, and the doctrine of investigative judgment which is the belief that there is a heaven Jesus was inaugurated as our High priest and he began his ministry during the time of his ascension, he then entered the last phase of his ministry which is investigative judgment the ultimate deposition of sin, the Day of Atonement where the sanctuary is cleansed with the blood of an animal but the heavenly things are purified by the blood of Jesus. The investigative judgment is when the dead are asleep in Christ so in Him they are deemed worthy to be part of the first resurrection, and people on earth who follow the commandments and have faith in Jesus are ready for heaven. If you are loyal to God you get heaven. The church is known for their conservative beliefs, distinctive diet and health, promotion of religious liberty, and the holistic understanding.