So, what religion is everyone? I am assuming that most are baptist but thought I would ask! I like to know where people are coming from when we talk about Bible lessons. We are former baptists. We are slowly converting to Eastern Orthodox. Just curious.
I was raised in a Catholic church but switched to United Baptist when I was saved 2 1/2 years ago... Brenda
Dad was raised Catholic, Mom Methodist, and the brought me up in an American Baptist Church. DH was raised Lutheran. We now attended a non-denominational, charismatic mission church located in the inner city, right across the street from one of the largest stores of s-e-x paraphanalia in the midwest, and just a storefront away from a Wiccan store!
I was raised Baptist, have my church membership at a Brethren in Christ church, and have been attending a Church of the Brethren for a little over a year now. Heidi
I don't label myself any denomination, but when we moved we started attending the Baptist church my dh grew up in. Most of the people in our homeschooling group attend Baptist churches, too. I heard on AFR a while back that the Baptist church was encouraging its membership to pull their kids out of public school in favor of homeschooling. The spokeman I heard was a former military man and equated it to not sending troops to battle until they have had intensive training in a safe zone vs. some Christian's notions that their kids will be "salt and light" in the public school.
There are about a zillion different "Baptist" labels. I grew up in an American Baptist church, which now-a-days tends to be a little liberal. Then there are Southern Baptists (who were the ones trying to pass the measure encouraging pulling Christian kids from public schools), General Assembly of Regular Baptists (where my parents now attend), Free Will Baptist, Primitive Baptist, Northern Baptist Conference (a predominately Black church that came out of the Civil War), and Baptist General Conference (which came out of I believe Swedish immigrants). And those are just the ones I know!!! You will find that they may have things in common, but they are often very different from one another, too!
We all sound like Baptists!!! I honestly thought some of you were Pentecostal. I seriously think, though, that we're giving a 'feeling', for lack of a better word, to these forums. I think it's why some people stop posting and you never hear from them again. There are just a few of us who post here regularly, if you stop and take notice. While I'm not saying I think we should keep our faith to ourselves, I think we should wonder just how welcoming a place this is when an opposing view is given... BTW, I'm a Southern Baptist.
On the question on why I thought most were baptist...I am not sure I just did. I think Becky hit the nail on the head. It was just a feeling. My reason for asking though was because of Bible curriculum. What some might use might not work for others. Thanks for the responses. I do not think that I upset anyone but if I did I am truly sorry. Renee
I don't think Jimmie Lu and her family are pentecostal. She told me their religion last summer but I can't remember for the life of me what it was - if I'm not mistaken it is a non-denominational church that they go to (or something along those lines). I really want to say along the lines of Lutheran but I can't rememver. Faith believers! I do know that. They haven't left for Mexico yet - they leave on April 15 - the last I had heard (a couple days ago) they are flying down this time They're excited about their missions trip and still need us to pray for them... (Becky - just curious - did you think I was pentecostal? Just wondering...not looking to stir up anything, just curious) Brenda
I am here just have been enourmously busy with details and easter and church and well LIFE!!!! You could say we are pentecostal. Our senior ministry Disciples Fellowship is Interdenominational. And basically that means we are to respect other denominational beliefs. We preach in pentecostal, methodist, luthern, EC and non denominational. Our church membership is in the assemblies of God and our ordination is through Disciples Fellowship. The guy we are working through in TX is Baptist and many Catholics donate to our ministry. We attend a congrigational church at the moment and did some asst. pastor work in a Church of God. So wow it sounds nuts I know but............ As far as curric. We use BJU, Beautiful feet(I love it),Rod and staff, and we did use some A/O but do not any more. Yes we are flying on April 15 Tax Day!!!
Brenda with you I wondered how big of a change it was to go from Catholic to Baptist. My first husband was Catholic and I couldn't get over all the hoops we had to jump through to get married. When I said I thought some here were Pentecostal that was an observation based on past discussions, it wasn't an insult or anything.
Becky I didn't take it as an insult :wink: - was just wondering. While talking about extreme changes, Mom went from the Catholic church to an Apostolic Pentecost church and she loves it. As long as any church I go to worships God, I'm a happy camper... For curriculum - we have used some Abeka, A/O and other stuff last year (mixture of a little bit of everything). Not sure what we use in the fall... Haven't got that far in my planning yet. Brenda
When my parents were married, Dad was Catholic and Mom was Methodist. They had to sign a paper before the priest would marry them that they would raise the kids in the Catholic church. So Mom tried to "change". She went to classes, but the priest told her it would never work, because she was to strong a Protestant. She kept asking question like, "Where does it say that in the Bible? Where in the Bible is purgatory mentioned?" So she didn't go for years. Dad and I use to go by ourselves, while Mom stayed home with my little brother. Then we had some neighbors move in that attended the Baptist church. My brother and I went to Bible School with them, and LOVED it! I shocked the neighbor's daughter, because I had a question and decided to go straight to the head. So this little 8YO girl walks right up to the pastor, tugs on his sleeve, and very respectfully says, "Excuse me, Father....." I mean, he was in charge, so I figured he HAD to be the priest, LOL! (He responded as if everyone addressed him that way.) Dad decided that Mom had tried it "his" way, so he would try it "hers". He attended the Baptist church with us for 6 years before finally making a decision. No offense was taken, Renee. I was just curious. While I do know several Baptist HS families (mostly through AWANAS), I can name about 9 non-Baptist churches in my immediate area with large homeschooling groups, too. I'm from a high-population area!
