How did you get into the church denomination you worship within, were you born into it or did you choose as an adult?How important is this to you?
I became a Christian as a young adult and perhaps naively, I have always wondered if it really matters that much how and where you worship. Surely the important thing is that a person gives their life to Jesus Christ, who preached love.
Looking at history, at the bloodshed, it is sad. The division and disagreement. All the trouble over how to love and obey God
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Re: Denominations
Post #2I grew up in a small, rural town. My paternal grandfather was a baptist minister (though that's not the church I attended more than twice maybe). In my town, there were less than six churches, all christian/catholic (though now there are more - some nondenominational).Rose2020 wrote: ↑Mon May 02, 2022 10:39 am How did you get into the church denomination you worship within, were you born into it or did you choose as an adult?How important is this to you?
I became a Christian as a young adult and perhaps naively, I have always wondered if it really matters that much how and where you worship. Surely the important thing is that a person gives their life to Jesus Christ, who preached love.
Looking at history, at the bloodshed, it is sad. The division and disagreement. All the trouble over how to love and obey God
I was taken to my church as a small child and grew up there - the internet was nonexistent at that time so I had little to no influence of any other religion (no muslim, no hindu, no jewish, etc). I was taught 'this is the right religion' and was not taught any christian history, even though I craved it.
In high school, I was super excited to take WORLD HISTORY to learn about other cultures, but the history teacher was also the football coach and a good ½ of the class was football players so we only learned about football, and nothing about world history. Which was unfortunate.
Once I went out on my own, I learned about other cultures, other religions, learned more from other 'types' of christians (and from others that consider themselves christians that some may not ie. mormon, JWs, etc).
As far as denominations go, even when I was attending church, I wondered how important these little differences are. I thought 'If we are to follow jesus, why not just follow his teachings? Why deal with all these religious routines and rituals? Why even care what another denomination says? Just follow jesus!'
To me, that would be the most important part of the whole belief system - the gospels. I'd be willing to overlook that differences in them if group XYZ simply followed jesus and do what is right and good to the best of your ability and believe in jesus.
Yet, people seem to want to stick to rules from certain denominations.
Oh well.
Have a great, potentially godless, day!
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Re: Denominations
Post #5Usually what we see is divisions over such things as whether to baptize with two drops or three or to attempt a drowning.
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