Christian Practices
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- Created on: 30-04-18 17:07
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- Christian Beliefs
- Worship
- Reason for worhsip
- To praise God
- To ask for forgiveness
- To seek God help
- To Strength Relationship With God
- Type of Worship
- Liturgical worship
- Non-liturgical Worship
- Informal Worship
- Reason for worhsip
- Prayer
- Significance
- Encourages reflection of self
- Enables communication with God
- Keep a close relationship with God
- To accept god's will even if it suffering
- Gives a sense of peace
- The lords Prayer
- Jesus taught his Disciples this prayer.
- Seen as a good model of prayer.
- Reminds Christians to forgive each other.And that God is the Father,
- Significance
- The sacraments
- It is an Inward sign of an outward Blessing
- Baptism
- Imitates Jesus baptism
- Enters a new life with Christ and becomes a Child of God
- becomes a member of the church
- Cleansed of sin
- Infant baptism:practised by the Catholics to remove the original sin and the child will be welcomed in to the church
- Believers Baptism:It is practised by Baptist they should be old enough to make the decision
- Holy Communion
- It celebrates and gives thanks for the sacrifice of Jesus death.
- Impacts
- Individuals: receive God's Grace and strengthen their faith.
- Brings people together and provides support and encouragment
- It encourage to work for equality and justice for all Some churches also do charities
- Catholics and some Anglicans believe that the bread does turn in to Jesus flesh a blood
- Protestants think that is a reminder of the last supper.It is just symbolic for them.
- Marriage
- Holy Order
- Reconcillation
- Anointing the Sick
- Baptism
- It is an Inward sign of an outward Blessing
- Pilgrimage
- WHY?
- make you feel closer to God
- Strengthen faith
- To be forgiven forSin
- Experience a Holy place
- Seek a cure for an illness
- Lourdes:Mary was told to dig and build a spring that will have healing properties
- Iona:Where Columbus established a monastic community
- WHY?
- Festivels
- Christmas
- Celebrates the births of jesus
- Light symbolises Jesus coming at the times of darkness
- Midnight mass:Reflects the holiness of the night
- 25thof december
- Easter
- Good Friday :Jesus was crucified
- Saturday nights:services held to celebrate Jesus resurrection.
- EasterSunday:Church filled with flowers and hymns are sung
- Christmas
- The role of the Church
- Educate people about Christianity
- place for worship and prayers
- Provides activities for younger people
- A place where Christian socialise
- Helps those in need
- Fight for injustices
- Food Banks
- Provides emergency food based on the principles of the Sheep and the Goats parable
- Street pastor
- They provide practical help to local communities to help those involved in anti-social behaviours
- Mission and Evanglism
- Great commission: Jesus told his disciples to spread the Gospel
- Alpha:example of evangelism in Britain. It is an o opportunity to explore the meaning of life.
- Church growth
- It is growing rapidly in places like Africa and Asia
- Spreading the faith
- Advertising and using social media
- praying that other will accept God
- Sharing what God has done for them
- E.G Christ for all nations
- Worldwide Church
- Christian believe that humans where reconciled by God. It is an important part of the Church Work
- E.g Corrymeela. They helped reconcile the conflict between Ireland and Northern Ireland
- Christian Persecution
- Religious discrimination towards Christians
- IT should strengthen their Faith and allow them to share the suffering
- It is important to act against persecution
- Encourage Christians to love and forgive
- Religious discrimination towards Christians
- Response to World Poverty
- Christians try to help those living in poverty.
- Teachings
- Parable of the sheep and The Goat
- The Rich man and lazarus
- Good Samaritan
- Christian Aid
- Tearfund
- CAFOD
- Worship
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