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Christianity: practices Flashcards

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Worship

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The act of religious praise, honour, or devotion

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Private worship

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when believers praise or honour God in their own home

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Liturgical worship

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A service that follows a set structure or ritual.

Contents:
- Formal prayers with set responses
- Bible passages read out
- Music and hymns

Example:
- Eucharist

Importance:
- Ritual passed down through generations gives sense of tradition
- Bible readings follow Christian calendar and teach Christian history and faith

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Non-liturgical worship

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A service that does not follow a set text or ritual

Contents:
- Focused on Bible readings followed by sermon
- No set order for prayers or hymns: number and type can change from week to week

Example:
- Services in non-Conformist churches
(e.g., protestants)

Importance:
- Can be planned and ordered to suit a certain theme

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Informal worship

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A type of non-liturgical worship that is ‘spontaneous’ or ‘charismatic’ in nature

Contents:
- ‘charismatic’ worship may involve dancing, clapping, and calling out
- people meet in private homes and share food

Example:
- community or house churches
- charismatic worship of the Pentecostal Church

Importance:
- people can take an active part by calling out or speaking without formal training
- service may have an emotional impact with a feeling of personal revelation from God

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Prayer

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Communicating with God, either silently or through words of praise, thanksgiving or confession, or requests for God’s help or guidance

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Set prayers

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Prayers that haven been written down and said more than once by more than one person

Example: Lord’s Prayer

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Informal prayers

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Prayers made up by an individual using his or her own words

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The importance of prayer

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  • encourages reflection in the middle of a busy life
  • enables Christians to talk and listen to God
  • helps Christians to keep a close relationship with God
  • gives strength in times of trouble
  • gives a sense of peace
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Sacraments

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the outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace

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Baptism

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A ritual through which a person becomes a member of the Church. It involves the use of water to symbolise the washing away of sin.

Infant baptism: for babies and young children

Believers’ baptism: for people who are old enough to understand the significance of the ritual

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The seven sacraments

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For Catholic and Orthodox Churches:

  • Baptism
  • Confirmation
  • Eucharist/Holy Communion
  • Marriage
  • Holy Orders/Ordination
  • Reconciliation
  • Anointing of the sick

Protestant Churches only recognise two: Eucharist and Baptism

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Through baptism a person…

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  • enters new life with Christ in the Christian community
  • imitates Jesus’ baptism by John the Baptist
  • is cleansed of sin
  • becomes member of the Christian Church
  • becomes a child of God
  • receives God’s saving grace
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Infant baptism

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  • removes original sin
  • allows child to be welcomed into Church ASAP
  • holy water is poured over baby’s head
  • baptised ‘in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.’
  • Godparents and parent promise to bring up the child as a Christian
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Believers’ baptism

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  • people can consciously make a decision about their faith
  • the decision to live a life dedicated to Jesus is what saves a person, rather than the baptism itself
  • person is fully immersed in a pool
  • the person gives a brief testimony of their faith in Jesus
  • baptised ‘in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.’
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Eucharist

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The sacrament that uses bread and wine to celebrate the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross and his resurrection

Impact

Individuals:
- Christians receive God’s grace by joining in the sacrifice of Jesus
- Helps strengthen their faith and get closer to Jesus

Communities:
- Brings community of believers together in unity by sharing bread and wine
- Provides support and encouragement for those who are struggling

Wider society:
- Acts as a call to love others in practical ways
- Churches collect money to help those in need

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Pilgrimage

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A journey made by a believer to a holy site for religious reasons

Importance:
- meet others who share the same faith
- experience a holy place
- help other pilgrims who are disabled or ill
- seek a cure for illness
- grow closer to God
- thank God for a blessing
- be forgiven for sin
- reflect on one’s life
- pray for something special

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Lourdes

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  • a town in France where Mary appeared to Bernadette
  • Bernadette created a spring of water following Mary’s instructions
  • water is believed to have healing properties
  • Pilgrims pray for healing and/or forgiveness
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Iona

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  • a small island on the western coast of Scotland
  • a quiet, peaceful place of natural beauty where pilgrims can spend time praying, reading the Bible, reflecting or meditating
  • a thin place where the boundary between heaven and earth is especially insubstantial and delicate
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Festival

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A day or period of celebration for religious reasons

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Christmas

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A festival that commemorates the incarnation of Jesus

  • lights represent Jesus as the light coming into the world of darkness
  • Midnight Mass reflects the holiness of the night and the joy Christians feel at Jesus’ birth
  • Christmas cards and gifts recall the Magi’s gifts to Jesus
  • Some churches may re-create the Nativity scene to commemorate the occasion
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Easter

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The most important Christian festival, which celebrates Jesus’ resurrection.

Holy Week: remembers the events leading up to Jesus’ crucifixion

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The Church

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The holy people of God, among whom Christ is present and active

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A church

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A building in which Christians worship

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Importance of the Church

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Individual churches:
- educate people about Christianity
- are meeting places for prayer and worship
- provide activities for younger people
- where Christians can socialise and obtain spiritual guidance

The Church:
- supports local projects (e.g., food banks)
- provides social services (e.g., schooling, medical care)
- helps those in need
- campaigns for justice

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The Trussell Trust

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  • a charity running over 400 food banks in the UK
  • these provide emergency food, help and support to people in crisis in the UK
  • aim: to bring people together to help end poverty and hunger
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The Oasis Project

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  • community hub run by Methodists
  • provides an internet café, creative courses, a job club, training opportunities, a meeting place, and a food bank
  • spiritual and practical help is given to those in need
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Agape love

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Selfless, sacrificial, unconditional love

Jesus taught that Christians should help others by showing agape love

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Street Pastors

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people who are trained to patrol the streets in urban areas

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Mission

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A vocation or calling to spread the faith

They do this to fulfil Jesus’ instructions to the disciples to spread his teachings (the Great Commission)

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Evangelism

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Showing faith in Jesus by example or by telling others

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The Lord’s Prayer

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The prayer Jesus taught his disciples to show them how to pray.

Our Father, which art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy Name.
Thy Kingdom come.
Thy will be done in earth,
As it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
As we forgive them that trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
But deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
The power, and the glory,
For ever and ever.
Amen.

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Confirmation

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an initiation ceremony carried out by a bishop bestowing the gift of the Holy Spirit

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Ordination

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the process by which someone becomes a priest

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Reconciliation

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returning to harmony and friendship after conflict

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Transubstantiation

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transformation of the Eucharistic bread and wine into the flesh and blood of Christ

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How easter is celebrated

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  • CofE Christians follow set prayers and hymns called the Easter Liturgy
  • Catholics may sing the Alleluia to celebrate life and God
  • Catholics and Anglicans attend an Easter Vigil on Saturday night where the Paschal candle is lit. The light symbolises the resurrected Jesus
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Worship/Prayer quotes

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“Come let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the Lord our maker.” - Psalms

“we should at all times, and in all places, give thanks to thee O Lord.”
- John

“But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen.”
- Matthew

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Eucharist/Last Supper quotes

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“For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.”
- 1 Corinthians

“This is my body… Eat this and remember me.” + “This is my blood… Drink this, and remember me.”
- 1 Corinthians

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Mission and evangelism quotes

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“Go and make disciples of all nations and baptise them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”
- Matthew

“We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us”
- 2 Corinthians

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Baptism quotes
(+ pilgrimage quote)

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“Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptised by John.”
- Matthew

“Whoever believes and is baptised will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.”
- Mark

“Every year Jesus’s parents went to Jerusalem for the Festival of Passover”
- Luke

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