The name of the church I attended was Windsor Village United Methodist Church on June 26, 2016. I currently do not have a church I attend because of personal reasons, but do believe in gaining a better connection with God. The church that I visited was a Revivalist service with Pastor Kirbyjon Caldwell. They began with songs, then prayer, then the sermon, then a final prayer. Throughout the experience at this church I felt like the word of the God was speaking directly towards me. I am a realist meaning I believe everything happens for a reason or I see things exactly the way they are.
The style of church was a revivalist church, which means it was heavy in singing and sermon. I chose this style because when I was younger and forced to attend church we would always have to attend there. The service represent people from all different backgrounds coming together to praise God, which is why I believed I liked it so much. People wearing casual clothes as well as business looked pass each other’s wardrobes to join hands to praise the almighty God.
The particular style is very uplifting for those who have went through it all. The songs they sang were about God, for example the song by Kirk Franklin named Silver and Gold, tells about how a Christian would rather have God than money. They would rather have faith and hope than riches and material things. Another song would be Why We Sing is about someone who puts their faith in God and they feel as nothing can go wrong with God behind them. Those two songs stuck out to me the most because they each represent a side of me as a follower of God. I truly believe that without the help God and using his judgment we would all truly be lost individuals or sinners even more than we are. The so...
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...all completely different individuals and go through different struggles, but if you follow God an listen to his word you will not lose. Its okay to sacrifice in order to conquer what’s going to come. Belief in God will help you further than a hallway believer cause your questioning his power.
God is the king of all kings and lord of all lords so why do people question him everyday. I also question what he does because of my own personal reasons that happened in my life. But I have been told if you do not wonder or question his grace then you will never break through as a Christian because you will sin and act like nothing ever happened. Windsor Village worship service with Pastor Caldwell opened my eyes to more than I imagined with my religion, but he also gave a better understanding to the questions I always needed answered. This was a great way to learn about God.
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.
In the essay, “The Second Great Awakening” by Sean Wilentz explains the simultaneous events at the Cane Ridge and Yale which their inequality was one-sided origins, worship, and social surroundings exceeded more through their connections that was called The Second Great Awakening also these revivals were omen that lasted in the 1840s a movement that influences the impulsive and doctrines to hold any management. Wilentz wraps up of the politics and the evangelizing that come from proceeding from the start, but had astounding momentum during 1825.The advantage of the Americans was churched as the evangelizing Methodists or Baptists from the South called the New School revivalist and the Presbyterians or Congregationalists from the North that had a nation of theoretical Christians in a mutual culture created more of the Enlightenment rationalism than the Protestant nation on the world. The northerners focused more on the Second Great Awakening than the South on the main plan of the organization.
There is a purpose behind these struggles. Louie found this purpose through finding God. After the war, Louie struggled with different battles, this is consistent for everyone. An overwhelming peace comes along with finding this purpose. Through Louie being saved, both physically and mentally, he found this peace. Each and every person has some type of faith, whether it is faith in one’s self, faith in someone else, or religious faith. This faith is what keeps humans going, it keeps people pushing
The United Methodist Church’s Book of Discipline states, “Wesley believed that the living core of the Christian faith was revealed in Scripture, illuminated by tradition, vivified in personal experience, and confirmed by reason”. This statement outlines the concept of the Wesleyan Quadrilateral. Interestingly, John Wesley never actually used the term “quadrilateral” and the American Methodist scholar, Albert C. Outler, who later stated that he regretted doing so as it has been misconstrued, named it.
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.
...n me. Know one approached me and asked me if I needed a bible, or even attempted to assist me with my awkwardness. I know all of these things would have happened at my church or any Baptist church for that matter. Essentially, the decision is up to the practitioner and the experience has definitely made me appreciate being a Baptist.
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.”
...s long as one is able to endure the suffering everyone must undergo without destroying yourself, you are just as good as the next man.
The format of a Baptist Sunday service consists of the choir, devotion (psalms, scripture, message, prayer, song), responsive readings, congregational prayer, choir, sermon, and invitation to join the church, offering, and then special announcements. Each month a different part of the church is in charge of the prayer service.
My home church is United Methodist. I have gone there ever since I was a child because that is where my mother went to church. Through researching this paper I found many interesting things about my church. There are many points and issues I agree with and many I disagree with. Writing this really made me think about my denomination closely and if it’s the right one for me.
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
From the time it was introduced to America in 1766, by Phillip Embury in New York and Robert Strawbridge in Maryland (Methodism 2) until the middle of the 19th century, Methodism enjoyed a meteoric rise. At the time of the American Revolution Methodists comprised a very small percentage of the American religious population, and yet by the mid 1800s Methodism was a dominant religious movement. In fact, historian William Warren Sweet claims that while “of all the religious bodies in America at the close of the American Revolution, the Methodists were the most insignificant,” it can now safely be said that “Methodism was to the West what Puritanism was to New England,” (3) that is, the dominant cultural and religious force. In fact, he claims, “no single force had more to do with bringing order out of frontier chaos than the Methodist circuit-rider,” (3). So, how was it that Methodism, so insignificant at the founding of our country, became, within a generation, a dominant cultural and religious force? Before we can answer this question; before we can speak to this meteoric rise of Methodism in America, we first have to understand the origins of Methodism in England.
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
Before beginning my first semester here at Vanguard I often found myself questioning why I believe what I believe. I had a hard time understanding the bible and an even harder time finding answers to my questions. It was difficult for me to find the courage to ask questions because I didn’t want to come off as someone who didn’t know everything about the bible. Once I started my freshman year I began understanding that I am not alone, every one has questions or things that they don’t quite understand. Encountering The New Testament broke down parts of the bible and made it much easier for me to understand.
I like this style of music the best because it best represents who I am and what I enjoy. The lyrics to the songs during these times were mainly fun and easily understood compared to other genres of earlier music that seemed were very dark, depressing, or hard for me to understand or relate to.