The Church Of The Methodist Church

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.

The Episcopal Church was founded in the 16th century during the Protestant Reformation on the belief to spread Christianity and worship . The Episcopal church originated from the Church of England that modeled much of it’s religious beliefs from the Roman Catholic Church. Episcopalians (followers of the Episcopal Church) refer to their religion as “Protestant, yet Catholic,” (Wikipedia). I had the privilege to interview one of my teachers from middle school, Erin Havens. She grew up as a conservative Episcopalian, and described that experience as being almost identical to, “The way the Roman Catholics hold their masses, holidays and how they practice their beliefs,” (Havens). Which is true, because most of the modeling of the faith is role modeled after the Catholic Church other than some key differences.

My great grandfather was a carpenter and helped reconstruct and add additions to the United Methodist Church in Hampton Iowa to make it what it is today (Elphic, 11/9/13). My family has been members of this church sense it was first made in the 1800’s (Elphic, 11/9/13). My ancestors and family frequently gave donations to the church and attended regularly (Elphic, 11/9/13). Many of my ancestors and family got married and baptized in the United Methodist Church as well (Elphic, 11/9/13). They would always have the church pastor present during funerals (Elphic, 11/9/13). My ancestors would read from the bible every night (Elphic, 11/9/13).

His church is a “good sized” suburban church that has been around for 295 years. He describes the parishioners as having a “broad tent” of theological views. This congregation is open to new ideas and re-visiting the old. They appear to be carrying out intentional missional work in their community

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the sixth largest church in the United States with approximately 15 million Mormons following the religion. The Mormonism was founded by Joseph Smith, Jr. in 1820 because he was overwhelmed by the different Christian denominations formed and he wondered which denomination was true. When he was 14 years old, he went into the woods to pray in order to figure out his concerns and supposedly God appeared to him and told Smith not to join any of the denominations in his town. Three years later, Smith was visited by an angel called Moroni that told him that he was chosen to transcribe the Book of Mormon. The book was published in 1830 and the book told of the Jews plight in Jerusalem and how the Jewish people fled the country for the United States. In addition, the Book of Mormon discusses the culture, civilization, and Jesus’ appearance in America. After publication, the Mormon faith began to grow but because the faith was accepting to polygamy, Smith and his followers were persecuted and forced to move to different states. Until one day, a mob attacked Joseph Smith and his brother killing both of them in the process. Due to the unfortunate events, the church was split into two different faiths one led by Smith’s widow and the other group was led by Brigham Young in Utah.

I went to Calvary Church in Naperville and I chose this particular place because it interested me because we learned about mega churches in class and I wanted to find out how mega churches work. The place of worship was big it had a stage and multiple screens for people in the back of the rows for them to see and there wasn’t much artwork because it was mostly dark with blue lights to bring focus up to the stage and there was a cross on the stage and the people worship at this church by listening to the pastor or who ever was performing on the stage like a concert or speech. What happened on the day that I went was it was mother’s day so I went in with a friend and sat next to them in one of the rows of seats and it started with a woman performing

The African Methodist Episcopal Church also known as the AME Church, represents a long history of people going from struggles to success, from embarrassment to pride, from slaves to free. It is my intention to prove that the name African Methodist Episcopal represents equality and freedom to worship God, no matter what color skin a person was blessed to be born with. The thesis is this: While both Whites and Africans believed in the worship of God, whites believed in the oppression of the Africans’ freedom to serve God in their own way, blacks defended their own right to worship by the development of their own church. According to Andrew White, a well- known author for the AME denomination, “The word African means that our church was organized by people of African descent Heritage, The word “Methodist” means that our church is a member of the family of Methodist Churches, The word “Episcopal refers to the form of government under which our church operates.”

The Church and the Trinity 1st Corinthians 3 Chapter four addresses the divisions within the Corinthian church, such as jealousy, quarrelling and their defective view of the church. The apostle Paul links their view of the church to church leadership stating “If they had a true view of the church, they would have a true view of the leaders of the church” (p79). The situation was that their view was lower for the church and higher for the leaders thus they were boasting about the leaders. Paul’s view was that the Corinthian church was spoon feed Christians not maturing as they should.

The Churches of Christ: A Comparative Essay Over the past ten years there has been much controversy in the Christian and secular media about the International Churches of Christ (ICC), and the United (or mainline) Church of Christ (CoC). This controversy has stemmed from the ICC's misuse of funds, doctrinal problems, member abuse, and mind-control. The differences between the CoC and the ICC are important for Christians know and understand.

Religion is a strong foundation in my family, it has always been since I was a small child. It has been instilled in me and I have been taught to lean on it when there is nothing else to lean on. I have been a part of only a few churches; each a different denomination. Interestingly, I have not always been a part of the Baptist religion. I was baptized Catholic and even went as far as my first communion. Even though I have been Baptist since I was around twelve, I have only somewhat looked at the history of what the religion is. So what is the Baptist religion? Wikipedia describes Baptists as “Baptists are individuals who comprise a group of denominations and churches that subscribe to a doctrine that baptism should be performed only for professing