Whenever someone says that they attend church I always find it interesting to know what denomination they go to. I'm not sure why but I just find it interesting.

Anyways, I attend a Pentecostal church. I like it there. People are all very friendly and open to talking. You can pretty much start a conversation with anyone there after service.

So once again, what do you attend?

Since we don't have a Greek Orthodox Church in our area, I go to a Coptic one. I used to go to a Russian Orthodox Church until we moved, and from time to time we go to a Catholic Church.

I was raised in two churches. The Assembly of God, as well as Messianic Jewish. My grandparents have a Messianic congregation, and my mom is an Ordained Minister as Non-Denominational.

Personally, now, I'm not one particular Denomination. The church I go to is Assembly of God, but we're in the Bethel flow. So we do all that fun stuff haha.

I attend an Episcopalian denomination church. My church actually just finished their annual Holly Fair.

I'm in the Reformed Church in America, which is biggest around the Hudson River Valley in New York and down through New Jersey, as well as from an area from Michigan to Iowa. 

Not too many people know about it, but it broke off from the Presbyterian Church 350ish years ago, and we're very similar in structure and beliefs today.

I think the church that I go to whenever I visit my parents is a Nazarene church? it's called " Bethal Naz Church of the Nazarene", so I guess the demonation would be Nazarene. 

play4fun : Am I correct? 

thing1 : Yes, Church of the Nazarene is a denomination, related to the Holiness movement stemming from Methodists.

Odd. I thought I had responded to this thread, but I'm guessing I actually didn't.  (well... guessing is not the appropriate word here..)

I -prefer- to attend Pentecostal churches, but I don't align myself with any particular denomination.  I think many of the churches I've gone to were either Baptist, or were called Baptist churches and identified as Pentecostal (I think something about it being difficult to change the church's name?).

I must also say that I wouldn't forbid myself from attending a church because of the denomination it aligns itself with. I determine if a church is worth attending by seeing if the pastor preaches THE Word without straying or teaching falsehoods.  (I mean, obviously I'm not perfect and I don't know everything, so I'm not saying that if I hear something unfamiliar, I bolt. Instead, if something doesn't sound right, I'll look into the matter myself through my Bible and other trusted Christians, before making a decision on if I want to attend the church or not.  I don't have to agree with everything the pastor says, either, but I do want to agree with most things.)

MoblinGardens :
I attend two!
I am baptised, volunteer and attend the Church or Scotland.
I also attend an evangelical church. Which is close to home and univercity.
I used to want to attend a pentecostal but my family would not take me. But I think it may have been for the better. I'm very reserved and the church of scotland is growing at the moment.

No denomination.

I recently learned all about the different denominations at church lol.

I am a Presbyterian. I have been to a few other churches times in my life, but I mainly go with the Presbyterian church on ideas.

I've always been a part of the Presbyterian church ever since I was born and was babtised as one,

MoblinGardens :

I was baptized and raised Lutheran. I'm not sure exactly what kind but it's the ones that allow female pastors. My church had 2, a man and a woman and I always preferred her. I've always kind of followed my father's lead in that aspect since I trust his judgement and know that he's been a student of the bible his whole life. I'm very grateful to have had that influence. Anyways, 4 years ago I became very, very ill and spent a month and a half in the hospital. I was pretty out of it most of the time but my dad had a falling out with the church we always attended over me. My dad was upset that the pastor couldn't make time to come visit me in the hospital even once. He did have a point in that I've been an on/off active member my whole life and he'd tithed there for God only knows how many years. Anyhow, he got a local non-denominational pastor that he knew to come see me and to my knowledge he hasn't been back to the old church. I have. The building has soo many memories for me I can't stay completely away. But I go to the non-denom church pretty much exclusively now. They call it that, but it's pretty heavily influenced with Baptist teachings. Which is fine.

UPC (United Pentecostal Church). I agree with the UPCI's "official" views on most things, but I'm open to anything I find the scripture teaches. In fact, rather than say I believe a certain denomination's teachings I say that I believe the Bible and only the Bible. I don't see much of a point in believing anything else, regardless of who says it.

Eirinn :

What about someone else's interpretation of the bible/Apostles teachings?

Txgangsta : Depends on how you mean that. I will listen to a teacher (obviously, as I attend church two to three times a week), but I won't listen to anyone's personal interpretations. By that I mean that if their interpretation is backed by scripture, yes. Otherwise, no. I feel that the scripture alone is what will save or condemn us, and as such they are all I hearken to by way of religious beliefs. In fact that's what the UPC as a whole teaches it's members to believe, which is why I associate with them and call myself by their title when discussing denominations.

I attend a non-denominational church, and it's been that way ever since my parents started taking me to church. I've been to 3 churches and all of them are non-denominational.

Eirinn :

UPC doesn't teach the Trinity, but Sabellianism. Sabellianism is clearly condemned by the early church fathers and in many places makes God into having a split personality. As for scripture, the best example is in the garden of Gethsemane. Read it and see if you can find the problem with strict monotheism and Jesus.

Txgangsta : Have you inquired of UPC members of this, or have you trusted online sources?

What we believe is that God is one being who we view from different perspectives depending on the situation. We do not divide God, and I find the suggestion somewhat offensive. God is our father in creation, he was the son in that as Jesus He had no biological father (much like the Bible says Adam was the son of God for the same reason, but no one tries to deify or worship Him as a fourth person in the Godhead), He is the Holy Ghost in the way He manifests himself to us today.

Another classic example is that of a man. A man may be a father to his child, a husband to his wife, and a son to his parents, yet no one would try to say he was there people, nor would they say to claim he was all three of these things was giving him split personalities. He is all of these things and he is viewed as each depending on the situation at hand.


As for the garden of Gethsemane, that is actually the perfect example of oneness doctrine. If Jesus were a separate spiritual being from the Father, why would the coequal all powerful son need to ask the coequal all powerful Father to help Him? God cannot pray to God and still be God, as the Bible clearly informs us that God needs no one's help.
Rather what we see in the garden is Jesus praying as a man.


In fact, trinitarianism is unbiblical. I can point to several scriptures in which the God plainly states He is one, and there is none other. Zechariah said they would look on God whom they had pierced, not His son. Moses said the Lord was one indivisible Lord. Isaiah said there was one, and there was none before the Lord (bear in mind, they believed strictly in one God, one being), none after, and none WITH Him.

The modern Jews refute Christianity and have been quoted as saying their reason for rejecting it is because it makes God a trinity while Moses told them plainly He was ONE.

Speaking of the early church, you will find no reference to the trinity prior to a group of men who came along after the apostles were gone and decided that God was three persons. Prior to that, there was no trinity doctrine in Christianity. It began as a pagan doctrine with such gods as Dragon and Baal. The idea was introduced as a way of mixing the ideas man was accustomed to with Christianity.

Finally, there is no scripture to support a trinity unless by chance a modernized translation has done so.

I will gladly discuss this with you either in a thread in which this discussion would be on topic, or in PM. To carry on here would be spam my and disrespectful to the thread maker as his intent was not to discuss doctrine.