What do the Assemblies of God and the Church of God believe about the end times? Continue Reading. Spurling was Baptist and sought a cure to the indifference he observed in churches of all denominations. Assemblies of God churches are organized according to presbyterian polity though not theology , at the national level as well as the regional or district level.
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All that they believe in is in the New Testament. Church of Christ always has this autonomous and self-governing body that they think in which they feel is perfect. The Church of Christ practices what they know, and they are part of the first-century church.
They do not use musical instruments, and hence they forbid the use of these musical devices in the church. They avoid atonement because they say it as just speculative.
Speculative, in that, it is just what someone says or wrote and wants everything to be in practice. Salvation is a gift from God provided that they attorn Christ as their Lord and personal savior. There is also one thing they have in common with the Baptist, which has its basis on salvation; they believe that you can lose your salvation and cannot get it back.
But some other Christians do not believe that because our salvation comes from the Lord, and so when we fall out of it and cry to God, he will answer and regain it back.
It is when you have good intentions in your heart because salvation is grace. With this, the Christ Church also views faith as a rational act done personally but with the view that the individual accepts the biblical truth of Christ.
Their beliefs are quite different because many do not see this as a pure Christian perspective. They believe that there is only one church, and that is the church Jesus started on the day of Pentecost in Jerusalem.
Everything they do is traced back to the church Jesus sided from the beginning. They have elders in their church. These elders see to the day to day activities of the church. Also, they monitor the feeding of the congregation. The Bible is their source, and the teachings are the doctrine they follow. Baptist Church believes that baptism is a symbol of death and resurrection, while the Church of Christ does not understand such.
Baptist Church accepts the use of musical instruments while the Church of Christ does not allow the use of musical instruments. Baptist Church sees faith as a personal commitment, while the Church of Christ does not know the gospel that way. Baptist Church believes that the Bible teaches that salvation depends on membership in a particular church, whereas the Church of Christ does not have that belief. They encourage missionary and evangelistic work under the teachings of Jesus.
Moreover, there is an archaist who does not believe in God and the teachings of any church. If we want to be what Jesus wants to be, putting our faith and trust in Jesus and in His word, then we are not going to want to be part of those efforts, because in such efforts, men are glorified instead of God. The Methodists glorify the Wesleys. The Presbyterians glorify John Calvin.
The Baptists glorify John Calvin, and other men. They glorify them by putting their creeds and confessions of faith above the words and teaching of Jesus Christ himself.
Hence, the fundamental difference between the churches of Christ and the Baptist church or any other denomination is that the church of Christ is not a denomination.
We are simply trying to be what Jesus, as revealed in the scriptures of the New Testament, desires us to be, nothing more and nothing less. Why do we not do that? Simply because you will not find it practiced by the church of the New Testament.
Another thing is that we believe in baptism for the remission of sins, and that a person must be baptized to be saved. Sorry I am so sporatic, I am trying to type on my iPod. Thanks for commenting, Andrew. That was my point. Many pastors do not do this, and when my wife and I were attending Renovatus, a Church of God affiliated church in Charlotte pastored by Jonathan Martin, we watched him perform a baby dedication, which is much like what you were saying.
My interpretation of the CoG doctrinal statement led me to the conclusion that the Church held to a belief in the pre-trib rapture in the way it was stated.
If, however, you do not, then I totally apologize for drawing that conclusion. Thanks for commenting in, though, and helping to clarify a few issues! Being under the Baptist name each church has the freedom to believe and practice as they please, having local autonomy, as you pointed out.
Which is a sect that has sprung up in the last few decades. This Belief holds that the King James Translation is just as accurate as the original and is the most accurate of all the translations worldwide.
How absurd is that? A Church that believes this way is reluctant to supp. There is bound to be differences in what is taught. Just look at this list on Wikipedia. You have faulty info. Also, a lot of revised Bible translations turned the real meaning of Biblical passages into different scenario. I compared other translations but so far it goes to disappointments since the essence of the Word of God varies in every translation I read.
The thing as well is that- many denominations have their own Bible in reference to their doctrinal background and that makes the whole thing changed.
Be mature! Since we have a lot of dialects of course we have to use the translated one to understand fully the passage and try to refer that passage to the English version for refernce. We have baptized children though. The same emphasis was placed on taking communion. Before you partook of Holy Communion, you were expected to understand the sacrifice Christ made and what the shedding of His blood meant for you and mankind. At almost all African-American Baptist churches I visited growing up, children would be baptized more readily than at my church.
At my church, we also were not at all taught that there was a rapture or millennial reign. No reign on this Earth. Kudos to you author on even tackling this question! I am also Church of God affiliated with Anderson, Indiana.
Their theology does not support baby baptisms, but as Creativegrl said, baby dedications are very much encouraged. These are merely a time when parents bring their child before the congregation and promise to faithfully do everything they can to raise the child as God would want them to.
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