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"You're a wonderful person, you won't be alone forever"
At this point I wonder, do I tell them you're never alone with Jesus?
Some seminaries, such as the one I attended, leaned very heavily toward reformed theology but then there are others that lean the other way. Since the seminary I attended is so reformed (and many of the churches in the area) it makes it difficult for those who move out of the area to find a good sbc to attend. It does make a lot of sense that they'd go Presbyterian.If it's SBC then there are quite heavy elements of reformed theology in their academia it seems, so it doesn't seem all that surprising they'd go to Presbyterian.
That's funny, some of the churches around the seminary I attended would say things like, "for those of you who have yet to take Greek ...." I don't know much about the Church of Christ or their doctrine. What do you mean it had a different feel?I went to a Churches of Christ school. It's not like a majority end up atheist, but it's a known fact that some people do. I went to the church that a lot of the Bible professors went to and we were the most progressive church in our denomination and the sermons just had a different feel than other churches. It was funny once, he posted a picture of a Greek sign from Jerusalem, and said "let me translate that for y'all..well, for those of you that haven't already."
I don't know much about the Church of Christ or their doctrine.
They were more, I don't know, deep and unafriad to tackle certain issues. For example, our preacher did a sermon series about how we're not the center of the story. Not in the sense that Christ should be the center of our lives, but that most of us are extras in the story and that's okay.What do you mean it had a different feel?
I'm leaving in less than 24hrs. (No, not leaving CF) So excited!![]()
Your race thingy?
I am just about to head off for the day so if it is, good luck!
That's cause we have no official doctrine or creeds, we're united by our traditions and heritage.
They were more, I don't know, deep and unafriad to tackle certain issues. For example, our preacher did a sermon series about how we're not the center of the story. Not in the sense that Christ should be the center of our lives, but that most of us are extras in the story and that's okay.
I can see I'm going to have to do some research...
You don't have to, I'll spell it out for you. We do have many common beliefs, in fact, with some small differences on the details. We are heavily sola-scriptura, but don't generally don't have a problem with any sort of commentaries or books helping us to understand scripture.
Salvation: We typically believe that salvation is repentance and obedience to the gospel as opposed to some emotional, spirit-led conversion. We're strongly Armenian. We take the decision to become baptized (we baptize instead of simply saying some confession or prayer as a sign of dedication) seriously and only baptize those who have seriously studied and are sure this is the right decision for them.
End Times: We're Amellinialists and believe that Jesus will come back pretty much without warning one day and judge the world, no tribulation, rapture,
Eucharist: We take it weekly.
Worship: The vast majority of our church's our a cappella, though a small (but starting to grow) minority are incorporating instrumental worship along with a cappella.
Outside of that, we don't really have a "stance" on anything. I know CoC people who are Creationists and CoC people who are Evolutionists, conservative CoCers and liberal CoCers, and everything in between.
You like our commercials? We don't even like our commercials, well most of themI love my firestick. As I can watch the American networks. Your guys gameshows are brilliant and your ads oh my seriously they make my day.
I can't wait till I start uni I have too much time on my hands
Yes they are fabulous, mental like. It's all shiny and new too me. Am sure if I was American I would hate them too. Plus they just come on so random. I was watch jeopardy (never seen it before) and then at the end they went too a commercial about these amazing pillows and something else then went back to program, everyone said goodbye and rolled the credits.You like our commercials? We don't even like our commercials, well most of them