Members Who Post in Faith Groups

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 see there is no third option.

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.

Sister, know that I love you as a sister in Christ.

But here is what I was told. It wasn't so much a change from a Moderator position as it was from an upper-upper decision. You see, I have Moderated in the Spirit-Filled/Pentecostal-Charasmatic area as well as the three other areas I now mod in. My family was essencially from 3 different groups. My Dads side of th family was Baptist, my Mothers side was baptist and Presbyterian, and my brother and sister attended a Church of God. So I am familiar with these 3 "groups."

Upper staff, those with the Green "A's" and those with the Blue "A's" are the ones whom I have questioned about this change.

Yes I have taken this "upstairs" because quite frankly, I was upset over the split.

Now here is the reason I was given.

Those "groups" who fit the denominational description were those whose "doctrines" could easily be sorted out under creeds and confessions. Hence "denominations."

And those "groups" who could trace there beginnings to religious "movements" were placed in the "faith" groups. For example, the Spirit-Filled/Pentecostal group can trace their beginnings back to a "holiness movement" from around the early part of the 19th century.

Another example would be as you've said, if your a Baptist, chances are your a Baptist. Likewise, if your a Catholic, your a Catholic. But where "faith" groups also differed from Denominations is that even though I am a Baptist, I can also be considered a Fundamentalist, and I also fall under the "Reformed" classification. Hence, I can also be considered a Semper Reformanda, even though most SR members are Presbyterian.

But my whole point I was trying to communicate was ignored. As I said earlier, nobody seems to consider that we owe our very existance, Baptists, Catholics, Presbyterians, Lutherians, Methodists, Spirit-Filled, etc., to a religious "movement" that was started by a young man, a rebel from Nazareth.

Sure we might belong to different "denominations," but we all seek out like-minded individuals and churches to worship in. We "congregate" together.

And that is the original meaning of the Greek word "ekklhsia."

ekklhsia from the Greek Lexicon means: "a popular assembly, Acts 19:32,39,40; in the NT, the congregation of the children of Israel, Acts 7:38; transfered to the Christian body, of which the congregation of Israel was a figure, the church, 1 Cor. 12:28; Col. 1:18, et al.; a local portiion of the church, a local church, Rom. 16:1, et al,; a Christian congregation, 1 Cor. 14:4, et al."

The New Analytical Greek Lexicon, Wesley J. Perschbacher, Hendrickson Publishing, Peabody, Mass., 01962, Copyright 1990, ekklhsia, p.127

The definition from greekbible.com, says the exact same thing:



http://www.greekbible.com/index.php

It properly means a group or congregation of born-again Christians who just happen to meet in a church. Should it matter whether or not you belong to a Presbyterian church, or a Liberal church? No, but here, it does.

We are properly congregational, not Christian Communities, or even faith groups. We are like-minded individuals who seek out congregations with the same religious convictions as ourselves to worship our Lord and Saviour.

The name "faith groups" never made sense to me because we all stepped out on faith in Jesus Christ didn't we? "Faith groups made it sound like some relied on faith while others relied on denominations.

And the fact still remains, all Christian "denominations" whatever they are, owe their very existance on the movement started by one man, one rebel named Jesus Christ. Who founded Christianity in AD 33!

Unite us back under the "Congregational" umbrella!

God Bless

Till all are one.