Christianity Practices Flashcards
Liturgical worship
Set structure (set prayers and readings)
Catholic, Orthodox And Angelicans
Involve attending holy communion/Eucharist on SUNDAYS
“For when two or three gather in my name, there I am with them”
Jesus
Non-liturgical worship
Less formal, no set structure, improvised worship
Methodists and Pentecost
Informal worship
Spontaneous, charismatic
Pentecostal churches
Involve clapping, dancing, music etc
Private worship
Worship alone
Connect with god personally
Involve meditating, praying or bible etc
Which denomination has no set pattern of worship?
Quaker Christians
Sit in silence, anyone can speak
Purpose of prayer? ACTS
Adoration (praise)
Contrition (apology)
Thanksgiving (thanks)
Supplication (request)
Adoration in the Lord’s Prayer?
“Our father in heaven
Hallowed be your name”
Contrition in the Lord’s Prayer?
“And forgive us our debts”
Supplication in the Lord’s prayer?
“Give us our daily bread”
Sacraments (7)
- baptism
- confirmation
- the eucharist
- reconciliation
- anointing of the sick
- matrimony
- holy orders
Why is water used in baptism?
Represent washing away sin
The Eucharist
Sacrament of thanksgiving
Celebrate sacrifice of death and gods role in life and the world
Tran-substantiation
Catholic belief
Bread and wine literally become the blood and body of Jesus
Tran-substantiation (2)
Protestants believe otherwise
Bread and wine are symbolic rather than metaphorical
Sacrament meaning
Outward sign of visible grace
Infant baptism
+ Catholic and Church of England
+ believed to remove original sin
Believer’s baptism
+ baptists and Pentecostals
+ gift of god’s grace
“Go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the father, and of the son, and of the Holy Spirit”
Mathew 28:19
“No one can enter the kingdom of god unless they are born or water and the spirit”
John 3:5
“Then Jesus came to… be baptised by John”
Mathew 3:13
Lourdes, france
- 5 million pilgrims every year
- cleanse sins
- 70 recognised miracles since 1858
Iona, Scotland
- deeply spiritual
- 130,000 pilgrims yearly
Christmas
- incarnation and birth
IMPORTANCE
- celebrating the salvation
- Jesus is a key figure
- beginning of Christianity
Easter
- crucifixion and resurrection
IMPORTANCE
- sacrifice was meaningful
- hope of redemption and afterlife
- Jesus rises proving the religion
“If Christ has not been saved our faith is useless”
Corinthians
Missionary
Travel to spread the word of Jesus
Evangelism
Converting others
“Blessed are the peacemakers”
Mathew 5:9
CAFOD
- practical help
- emergency food, water and shelter
Christian aid
- campaigns against gov policies
