Comments on: Which strand of contemporary Christianity most appeals to you? https://anitamathias.com/2011/12/13/which-strand-of-contemporary-christianity-most-appeals-to-you/ Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Thu, 14 Nov 2013 01:12:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Anita https://anitamathias.com/2011/12/13/which-strand-of-contemporary-christianity-most-appeals-to-you/#comment-16947 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:51:27 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2011/12/13/which-strand-of-contemporary-christianity-most-appeals-to-you/#comment-16947 Thanks Peter and Simon:-).

]]> By: Peter Harding https://anitamathias.com/2011/12/13/which-strand-of-contemporary-christianity-most-appeals-to-you/#comment-16946 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:48:56 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2011/12/13/which-strand-of-contemporary-christianity-most-appeals-to-you/#comment-16946 If I say that my top reading combines Rob Bell, Brian McLaren, Peter Rollins, Alastair McGrath and Tom Wright, I suppose I end up as something of a slightly liberal conservative charismatic evangelical.

]]> By: Sipech https://anitamathias.com/2011/12/13/which-strand-of-contemporary-christianity-most-appeals-to-you/#comment-16945 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:49:34 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2011/12/13/which-strand-of-contemporary-christianity-most-appeals-to-you/#comment-16945 I think it's often less about a particular “type” of church than the local church that it right for you. I grew up in a baptist church and have tried methodist, united reformed, anglican, non-denominational and have ended up at a charismatic pentecostal church.

The reason for that though was not because I went looking for one. I went looking for a welcoming church where I would be challenged. I don't agree with everything that gets taught, but what that does is it prompts me to check my own thoughts and beliefs, finding the evidence and adjusting & growing as I do so.

Any church that prompts that kind of thinking process is probably the right one to be in. But while someone like me might be challenged by a charismatic, another may be challenged by a more traditionalist church.

The Church (as a whole) is a rich a varied beast; the only thing that saddens me is when one strand sets itself up as in some way better or more authentic than others.

To taste and see that the Lord is good doesn't mean the ecclesiastical equivalent of having fish n' chips every night.

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