Christian's of VGChartz, are you Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant or Non-Denominational? (Edit:Poll fixed)

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mrstickball said:

The purpose of a youth group is to disciple and train youth to become Christians, and continue doing so through adulthood. Many churches have youth groups because the issues youth face are different than that of adults. Because of the differentiation, youth can learn in a different environment and be ministered to at a different level and in a different way. The way you conduct a service for a 60 year old person is generally a lot different than that of a 15 year old.

The purpose of organizing activities to help the poor/needy is to follow the commands of Jesus Christ. Furthermore, the book of Acts shows that the disciples were heavily involved in caring for the needs of their community - the rich sold what they have and gave to the poor, the farmers gave their food to the hungry, and so on. Much of this ministry can be summed up in Matthew 25 in the parable of the sheep & goats.

The fun activities are there merely for social purposes. Having events where Christians can get together and have fun build up their relationship(s) with other believers and ensure that they have strong bonds with those of the faith, thus building themselves up. Alternatively, it ensures that they have activities once in awhile that are designed to show that you can have a lot of fun as a Christian.

How does heavy metal/rock praise & worship go?

Well, here's how it works:

Instead of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7vZ-hPc-B0

We play this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hG9z-Z3szc

 

Do people do drugs at mini-golf courses? Actually, yes. In my town they do. My town is rather small - about 13,000 people. We have 1 movie theater, a Wal-Mart and a bowling alley or two. If you are young, you hang out at one of the three places, and the bowling alley is pretty big on drugs and other activities that are illegal. My goal would be to provide them an atmosphere that they can be at free of such things.

I do not get paid anything for my position. It is 100% voluntary. At the church I go to, the senior pastor also refuses a salary. He only gets a small stipend a month for living expenses. 90% of every dollar that the church gets is distributed to their bills, and our ministries. We house a clothing shelter, a food pantry, and a homeless shelter.

Protestant churches in the US aren't viewed with the distain in your country, and ours are (generally speaking) flourishing, which is why we have much higher church attendance rates than in Europe. Furthermore, I don't know how one could view feeding the poor as a 'corrupting activity'.

It's quite interesting that you have such activities. I guess they probably increase attendence. Have these social activities always existed, or are they a recent practice? I can ask the same way about the different services you guys have. Have people of your religion always made special religious services for younger people? This whole ideea seems devised by a PR team to be honest.

The difference between those two types od services is striking. You did mention that you only have those metal/rock praises once a month though, right?

WOW, your town is really small. How can people even manage to get drugs over there? You'd think that it would be impossible to deal drugs without everybody finding out.

If you guys don't get paid, then how do your survive exactly? Do you have other jobs?

And feeding the poor can be viewed as a corrupting activity, in the sense of 'look, they're feeding poor and taking advantage of their desperation to get them to convert'. I was talking more about the youth activities though ('look, these cultists are luring our children with sports activites and rock music, trying to corrupt their impressionable minds and get them to worship the devil' - and I'm not kidding, peopel actually believe this).