Worship Analysis : The Baptist Church

The American Baptist Movement came from England in the 17th century, after the Baptists were persecuted by the Church of England for being dissenting separatists. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, new members were converted and congregations were formed by Baptist preachers who traveled throughout the South, in particular during the eras of the First and Second Great Awakenings.

On Monday, I went to the local Crossroads Baptist Church, located at 850 Edwards Ferry Rd NE, Leesburg, VA. This was my first time experience as I am Hindu and my parents never exposed me to any churches. Dr. Kenneth K. Baldwin was the pastor at the time I went. Luckily, I got the chance to speak with him after the service. After our brief conclusion, I realized that he had a great vision for his church and is leading it to success through his passion. I sensed his passion for preaching and religious beliefs as they were evident during the service. Despite this being my first visit to a church, I learned a lot of valuable things about churches and Christianity.

From the Project Director’s experience, it is common to hear and feel a sense of gratitude and positive pride that Lenexa Baptist Church (LBC) is an excellent church from both leaders and the small group setting participants. Any faults found are minor and pale in comparison to many of the issues a church could face. LBC is a regional church with multiple campus locations strategically selected for maximum impact to reach Kansas City with the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.

In the Introduction section of the book, The Hidden Lives of Congregations, Israel Galindo states that a congregation is a “corporate relationship organization” (3) and is not an organization. He points out that the hidden life of a congregation would depict the “nature” of a congregation. This further identifies the relationships and faith of the congregation. According to him, the universal principles are followed by the congregations so that “systemic relationships” can work. The leaders learn the roles that they have within the people who are the congregation. The journal will focus on Dr. Fowler’s question “what is the purpose of this gathering we call the church?”

lectern in order for the word of god to be heard clearly. On the whole

The Brentwood Baptist Church is not a church that I have had any previous experience with. I had the opportunity to attend the Brentwood Baptist Church while on vacation in Tennessee. First, I chose to attend a Baptist church based on the fact that my children’s father attended a Baptist church throughout his childhood which would allow my children to have an experience in a Baptist church. The second contributing factor in the choice was the size of this particular church. Although our home church is the largest church in our hometown the Brentwood Baptist Church is much larger than our home church. The third contributing factor of the choice was the close proximity of the church to the resort that I was at.

Pastor Fred Dyess had retired after serving as pastor for thirty years and Director of Missions for the Baptist Association of Greater New Orleans for fourteen years. The Lord called him out of retirement to start a new church. Bro. Fred checked with the Eastern Louisiana Baptist Association Director of Missions, David Brown, to learn what areas the association had targeted for a new church and what was needed. He was told that the Louisiana Baptist Convention required a new church to have a sponsoring church. Dr. Roger Dunlap and Macedonia Baptist Church gladly voted to be our sponsoring church. The Louisiana Baptist Convention and the Eastern Louisiana Baptist Association each gave Victory a budget supplement of $500 per month decreasing

The Making of the 1963 Baptist Faith and Message. A. J. Smith Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2008.

On March 5, 1922, with 24 members in attendance at a meeting held in the train depot on Hutchins Boulevard in the Village of San José, Texas, which was a suburb of San Antonio, Texas, San José Baptist Church began. The Church then rented a building for several months on Commercial Avenue across the street from the Terrell Wells Post Office. Later in 1923, the Church rented a two-room house from the Harlandale School District.

The preschool that I observed is Twelfth Baptist Church. Their math and manipulative area is between the preschool class and the kindergartener 1 class. They have many materials like puzzles with different shape and size, paper money and coins, measuring tap, clock, blocks, number chart, addition and subtraction charts, number rug, and many other supplies. They also have cooking equipment that they can use it in math like: cookies cutter shapes, bowls, measuring cups with different size, gloves, and apron. In the math center the children used to sit on the rug or on their chair without table as they answering some question on the charts. But when they are doing the activity or the cooking they sit on two big hexagon tables, each one have six

The Holy Bible authorities people to be evangelists for Jesus Christ, and they will impart their beliefs on others, therefore knowing the doctrine of Jesus Christ is important.

My first impression was the passionate kindness coming from everyone. I could tell the sense of community and respect coming from each attendee. Comparing it to the Catholic Church I go to back at home, it was a very different feeling. I could automatically tell that each person was fully present in the worship that was about to happen. I ended up sitting in the back to get a full perspective of the service. As I sat there waiting for the service to start almost every person who walked past my pew either smiled or

If you were not aware of the recent news from the Fox Valley, Christ The Rock Church's much loved and respected founder, Bill Lenz, surcame to the depression he had been battling against for several months. While such news still pains me, there is still that analytical part of me that remains ensconced and seemingly irremovable from years of dealing with hundreds of such events; both professionally and privately. Being one who has survived that type of feeling of hopelessness further emboldens that mindset. I come as one who knows what it is like to sit alone in one's patrol car, empowered with the full authority (and arguably, more) of the State at their disposal, yet feeling powerless against the forces set against them. I experienced the feel the muzzle of one’s service weapon against their temple with the first pounds of trigger

In Baptist history there has always been differences in doctrine. This has unfortunately resulted, at times, to separate believers from one another. This can be evident from comparing two American Baptist confessions. The most notable difference in doctrine between The Philadelphia Confession of 1742 and A Treatise on the Faith of the Free Will Baptists, 1834 and 1948 is the doctrine of Calvinism versus free-will. The Philadelphia Confession supported Calvinism and the Free Will Baptists supported Arminianism. A closer look at these two confessions show that throughout Baptist history certain doctrines remain constant while others are debated and cause separation of believers. However, this has not stopped the Gospel message to be preached

Since the day I was born my parents took my sister and me to church ever Sunday. I grew up in a loving Christian home and was encouraged at an age where I could fully understand, to purse a relationship with Jesus. I accepted Christ into my heart when I was in the second grade and was baptized in the fourth grade at age 10. Growing up I have always been super involved in Church. I have a heart for people and love serving. Since 3rd grade until now, my senior year of high school I have been on the leadership team with my youth group. I can not imagine my life without Jesus as the center. I have been pushed to step out of my comfort zone and because of that I have grown in several different ways. For example, I am an extrovert and enjoy getting new people, but never liked public speaking as I felt nervous and intimidated. By the many adult leaders, and pastors coming along side of me and encouraging me to step of on my comfort zone I now highly enjoy speaking and spreading the truth about The Lord in big groups of people. I am so thankful for the many God loving people that have come in my life and helped stretch me. Jesus is my entire life and I am nothing without him.