Observing a Church

Observing a Church

Introduction

The church is basically a place where Christians worship God and meet other members of the community. It brings together the members to spiritual maturity and spreads out love of God and His message. Church is a type of religious organization that brings together the followers of a religion, as a rule, the Christian flow through common doctrinal and spiritual systems. From the inside, however, the existence of the Church of Christ as a nominal principle which is clearly universal, so a Christian requires faith in it. This directly speaks of faith: "I believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church”.

Saint Martin's Episcopal Church is one of the most recognized parish, consist about seven hundred fifty active members who are highly diversify in background, ideas and demographic. Saint Martin unites them all, regardless of their diversity. It is an in town church with city wide congregation (Shepherd, 2001). This church welcomes everyone across the board and provides people the opportunity to ministering to other members, to service in the community and to get educated. Saint Martin's is involved in different social programs including Christian formation and education, pastoral care, and social mission and outreach. It warmly welcomes the members and also called a “mission church”.

According to statistics, in the world there are about 2.1 billion Christians. This amount is divided into hundreds of denominations. Many of these churches do not even teach the saving faith of the Bible, and the vast majority of its members are not true Christians born again of these we mention that there are Catholics e.g. 1.1 trillion, Jehovah's Witnesses 6.6 million and 12 million Mormons. According to a 2005 study, the world have more than 2100 million Christians, or about a third of the world population, being the most followed religion in the world. Another study, published in 2011, speaks of 2180 million Christians in the world (Haigler, 1985).

Discussion and Analysis

Infant baptism is the practice of baptizing a child, also called christening by some faith traditions. When the priest was baptizing a child I watched it with quiet interest. Parents of the child brought him to their congregation's priest, then

As a body, the ultimate purpose of the Saint Martin's Episcopal Church is to glorify its Head, Jesus Christ. The Pauline Epistles are a set of letters (epistles) written or attributed to St. Paul, created apparently in the first century of Christianity, whose aim was the exhortation of Christian believers in the churches founded during his missionary journeys after conversion. They form part of the corpus of New Testament, so they are accepted and included in most of the Christian versions of the Bible. Their number varies between 13 and 14, depending if accepted the Letter to the Hebrews in that set (Hinds, 2004).

Life of the Saint Martin's Episcopal Church is embodied in worship, teaching, evangelism, and works of solidarity. Early on, Christian worship is celebrated on Sunday, the day of the resurrection of ...