Anglican Churches

Otherwise, we have dogma, doctrines, and creeds that we also believe.” (Kane). To someone outside of the Catholic church, they would not hold the same beliefs to be true nor understand the reasons for their belief. Nevertheless, these traditions have been passed down for generations and are still upheld today. As Kane pointed out, Catholics believe that Holy Communion is the body and blood of Christ.

In the Christian religion, the Baptists are one of the largest Christian denominations. As indicated by their name, the primary Baptist distinctive is their practice of believer's baptism and corresponding rejection of infant baptism. Most Baptists are evangelical in doctrine, but Baptist beliefs can vary due to the congregational governance system that gives autonomy to individual local Baptist churches. At the beginning of the 21st

Church of the Brethren does not accept abortion. Participating in abortion is not support their beliefs. Church of the Brethren is a denomination that was formed to continue their practices their own way. They started as a small group and to this day still recruit new members. They solely use the New Testament as their source of guidance for the practice they preach. Rational Choice theory explains Church of the Brethren 's position in opposing abortion.

Anglican adherence has seen a dramatic decrease from 39% in 1947 to 17.1% in 2011.

The Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) was started in December 1973 and their origin can be traced to John Calvin. The theological distinction of PCA is conservative reformed and the ecclesiology is Presbyterian. “This church was first known as the National Presbyterian Church but changed its name in 1974 to Presbyterian Church in America.” The PCA became a separate denomination from the Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUSA) due to the “opposition of long-developing theological liberalism which denied the deity of Jesus Christ and the inerrancy and authority of Scripture.” The Evangelical Synod and the Reformed Presbyterian Church joined the PCA in 1982. The belief system of the PCA is based on

Catholics and Protestants. It is for this reason that some may consider the Church of England to be

I was a Follower of Christ and I didn’t even know it. I was the last of three boys to two faithful Christian parents. My parents attended St Paul’s Episcopal Church in Akron, OH. I was baptized and confirmed by the same Bishop. Some of my earliest memories are of me standing in the pews with my parents and stacking the prayer books as if it were my own pulpit and I would pretend to be the priest giving the Sunday sermon. I didn’t know what he was talking about but I always thought that I would be like him one day. I was an acolyte and attended the youth programs regularly with my friends. I completed my studies to earn my God and Country award with the Boy Scouts.

The Congregational church continued to be legally established by some New England states, but the Anglican Church was humbled and reformed as the Protestant Episcopal Church.

Every week, approximately sixty to seventy devoted followers of Jesus gather in a traditional, white church building nestled by the woods, across from a horse pasture on the edge of the small, mostly blue-collar town of Sparta, Michigan. As they take their seats, those with gray to white hair fill the pews to the left of the aisle, while those whose in their middle age fill the pews to the right, along with a dozen middle and high school students in the back. Baptist Bible Church (BBC) was founded in 2008 and led by a part-time interim pastor until a full-time pastor could be found. However, since their founding as well as their leader's passing in 2010, BBC has been unsuccessful in finding the right pastor for the job and has continued

Now, even though each of these denominations call themselves Christians, their beliefs about the Christian “kingdom” are different. Some of the differences include Catholics, who believe that you must confess your sins to the priest, even though the Bible, the same bible that all Christians read out of, in the book

The religious institution that I selected was the C3 church at 1065 WALTHER BLVD, LAWRENCEVILLE 30043. I choose this because it is the closest to my household which, is approximately a mile and a half down the boulevard. Also, I use their gym facility which, is C3 Fitness. So, basically the church and gym are combined into one large building. Both of which are open to anyone as long as you pay a once-a-month fee to the fitness center but, the church is unrestricted. I would probably feel more awkward going anywhere else because as a black male. I do not think that any other church would believe that I was suddenly interested into things like Buddhism, Taoism, or anything else like Catharism. Christianity without a doubt is the least complex

Christians of a denomination separate from such formalities need to provide no answer of such realities in their foreign ministry. Another example of Allen’s Anglican bias can be recognized in his emphasis on the importance of regular practicing of the sacraments of the Anglican Church. He noted that one of the possible problems with practicing a ministry marked by resignation was that “the Christians would be deprived of the sacraments.” To any believer outside the Church of England, such sacramental deprivation would not be an issue. Other than these two insignificant examples, however, the overall relevancy of Allen’s message remains unaffected and is still worth studying.

St. Paul's Presbyterian Church seeks to provide a safe and secure environment for the children

May 1, 2016, the Mt. Olive Baptist Church, located in Greenwood (S.C.) County will celebrate its 142nd church anniversary. Many years Mt. Olive have been a church that loved people, gave without limits and took great care of its members. The last five of those one hundred and forty-two years, I have been honored to serve as pastor of this great church. Although this is a great church, Mt. Olive and many churches like it are plagued with a disease that has slowly, but surely, causing the church to drift further away from God and fall deeper into the ways of the world. This epidemic is known as “tradition”. Churches that are bound by tradition and not led by the Holy Spirit will find themselves missing the mark of what God has called us to do. The bible is filled with instructions for the church, but as Christians and Disciples of Christ, Matthew 28 is the foundation upon which we should be operating on in the church as well as in our lives. The Great Commission challenges us to “go, teach and preach to all nations.” Traditional churches will allow church tradition to dictate biblical doctrine. It will allow the church to argue about who’s right instead of what’s right. Sadly, church success has been based on structure and finances rather than saving lost souls.

The Anglican Church of Canada has its inheritance in the Church of England, which detached from the Roman Catholic Church in the 1500s (Anglican Church of Canada, 2015). The church conserved certain customs although it is influenced by the Protestant reorganization; this includes early church creeds and the series of bishops from the procession of the apostles (Anglican Church of Canada, 2015). Given, this record, Anglicanism is at times referred to as transformed Catholicism (Anglican Church of Canada, 2015). Anglicanism travelled out of the country with British ceremonial development; in 1578 near Iqaluit, Nunavut, a chaplain renowned the Eucharist as an element of Martin Frobisher’s Arctic voyage (Anglican Church of Canada, 2015). This