Exactly. "Faith groups" could be any religion, any new-agey philosophy, some Oprah-type faith religion. I think Christian Movements makes so much more sense.
I know this isn't going to change anything but I miss the old CF
__________________ "Theological liberalism is a different religion, a religion of moralism and uplift, whereas. Christianity is about sin and grace." -John Gresham Machen (1881-1937)
I vote neither. I vote to unite the area under one.
Everybody seems to forget that modern religion, Christianity that is, sprang from a movement. All Christian religions sprang from the movement that was started by a "rebel" from Nazareth that would not conform to the standards of the day.
That "movement" was started by a man named Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God.
All denominations, all "faith" groups, all groups that consider themselves to have started from a "movement" owe their very existance to the "Jesus Movement" founded in AD 30.
Unite us all back under the umbrella called "Congregations," that is my vote.
God Bless
Till all are one.
__________________ "Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad...Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me." -Jer. 20: 14-15, 17 (KJV)
Yeah or they all can be classified as "Christian movements"... just is some are so old, they hardly move any more...Hahahaha.. I like christian movements... because it says that God can still influence them... and they are not set in concrete.
__________________ Since the Torah is a finite book expressing the will of an infinite God, many lessons must be derivable from each passage from all the infinite angles.
I vote neither. I vote to unite the area under one.
Everybody seems to forget that modern religion, Christianity that is, sprang from a movement. All Christian religions sprang from the movement that was started by a "rebel" from Nazareth that would not conform to the standards of the day.
That "movement" was started by a man named Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God.
All denominations, all "faith" groups, all groups that consider themselves to have started from a "movement" owe their very existance to the "Jesus Movement" founded in AD 30.
Unite us all back under the umbrella called "Congregations," that is my vote.
God Bless
Till all are one.
Agreed.
There was absolutely no reason to split this area (that I've ever heard).
"Faith Groups" is fine with me. I've never had any difficulty understanding what that heading means.
Incidentally, the reason the Seventh Day Adventists are put here probably is that SDA is NOT actually a denomination in the sense that Lutherans, Baptists, etc. are. It is a single church body, like the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and the Southern Baptist Convention, neither of which has its own line as a denomination to the exclusion of the other Lutherans and Baptists.
Faith groups is fine. For that matter denominations was fine. Who cares if there is people who want to scream they aren't a denomination? They are by definition.
In any case movements would be misleading, because the groups in no way follow the movements. Where is the Holiness movement? Scattered all over, the Pietism movement? Again scattered. The deny the inerrancy of the Bible movement, again scattered.
In any case, it doesn't much matter what you call the grouping, people will figure it out and if they just can't handle the name, well, don't worry about it they will get over it or they won't.
Marv
__________________ Eze 36:25-27 ESV (25) I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. (26) And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. (27) And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.
Heb 10:22 ESV let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
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