"Remember that thou art dust and unto dust thou shalt return".
Ecumenical ping!
Posted on 03/01/2006 10:35:38 AM PST by Full Court
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Baptist and Catholics together ping.
My guess is that the confusion comes from the overwhelming number of Baptists of convenience in Birmingham.(they're Baptists because everyone else is and the church has nice activities)
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Baptist Don't Miss Prayer Meeting tonight Ping
This is Birmingham, Alabama. There was previously not a lot of mixing Baptists with Protestants and/or Catholic traditions.
Amen about prayer meeting! My pastor is teaching through Revelations, and we are on chapter 2.
Obviously not Southern Baptist churches. A woman minister?
They were probably SBC at one time, but are very liberal now.
"Remember that thou art dust and unto dust thou shalt return".
Ecumenical ping!
But do you think that's good? After all, one group has a woman preacher.
And then along came ....
and Alabama changed forever. God bless Mother Angelica!
Not sure what they mean by 'service', do you?
He did?
Mother Angelica used to come in the card shop where I worked, back in the early 80's. The manager of the store was Catholic and would just about bust a gut when Mother Angelica came in the store. I mean, she was just beside herself.
I, being non religious at the time, sort of got confused between Mother Teresa and Mother Angelica. It all kind of ran together to me. I was far more interested in boys and rock and roll music at the time.
So the next day I told one of our co workers "Oh, by the way, that famous nun, Mother teresa came in yesterday and Mary gave her 50% discounts on everything she bought."
The stunned look on my co workers face will always stay in my memory!!!
Not sure what they mean by service, no. I wonder if the lady preacher will get to participate?
I think, if the truth be known, this is more of an advancement of an intra-racial movement than a religious one.
Not that anything is wrong with that.
When I was a kid in Catechism class, we used to make up names for churches, like: "Our Lady of Perpetual Motion", "Our Lady of the Pyrrhic Victory", "Our Lady of Bingo", etc.
Yep they are liberal former SBC. They are now affiliated with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.
http://www.fellowshipofthevalley.org/aboutus.html
Fellowship of the Valley is a Baptist faith community with an ecumenical perspective. Our current strategic partners are Shades Crest Baptist Church, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, and American Baptist Churches (USA).
Baptist Church of the Covenant
http://www.bcoc.net/home.shtml
Baptist Church of the Covenant exists
To worship God.
To educate and to learn.
To serve others in the name of Jesus.
To proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ.
To welcome all who seek Christ.
To promote justice.
To love one another.
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Why is it that you do not consider Baptists to be Protestants?
Baptists
(Greek, baptizein, to baptize).
A Protestant denomination which exists chiefly in English speaking countries and owes its name to its characteristic doctrine and practice regarding baptism.
I. DISTINCTIVE PRINCIPLES
The Baptists consider the Scriptures to be the sufficient and exclusive rule of faith and practice. In the interpretation of them, every individual enjoys unrestricted freedom. No non-Scriptural scheme of doctrines and duty is recognized as authoritative..
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