Visited another religous denomination?

[Conductor42]

How many Twebbers have visited another religous denomination's services? (Any other denomination... for a Catholic it could mean going to a Lutheran Service, for a Buddhist it could mean going to a Hindu service, etc.)

[themuzicman]

I've been to a Calvinist service.. does that count?

[The Laughing Man]

No.

[rocketman]

Catholics are encouraged to visit other denominational services as an ecumenical gesture and an effort to better understand our separated brothers in Christ, provided that we fulfill our own Sunday requirement at Mass. Attending another service does not count as our Sunday obligation.

[Durthorin]

I'm a Wiccan that regularly attneds a Southern Baptist Chrust with my wife, does that count?

Danu Bless, Dur

[Trout]

I'm a Wiccan that regularly attneds a Southern Baptist Chrust with my wife, does that count?

Danu Bless, Dur

Yes, the Southern Baptists are a different bunch.

[Spiritus Naturae]

I have visited an Anglican church on a visit to the UK, visited a Presbyterian church with friends, been to a Baptist church when I was a youngster and from time to time attend services (family obligation) at a non-instrumental Church of Christ.

My regular attendance is at a non-denominational "Bible" church and a "House-Church" fellowship.

:angel:

[Durthorin]

I'm a Wiccan that regularly attneds a Southern Baptist Chrust with my wife, does that count?

Danu Bless, Dur
Didn't know sounded like "within" the given faith, in my case it would be visiting another Wiccan coven froma different tradition.

Danu Bless, Dur

[NoeticPenguin]

Visit? Heck I work in a different denomination than I grew up with / hold to!

I work as the Youth Minister for a United Methodist Church

However I seem to be more Quaker/Mennonite.

Staff meetings are weird.

-Pkj

[John Reece]

:smile:

Visited?

:smile:

I have been a member of 5 different denominations - Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), and "non-denominational" Charismatic.

Furthermore, I have served as a pastor of churches in three different denominations - Methodist, Presbyterian, and Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).

More to the point of the question in the OP, many decades ago, I visited Pentecostal Holiness and Assembly of God churches.

In the Army I served as assistant to a Lutheran Chaplin.

In terms of the Body of Christ, I have been blessed with a phenomenally rich and remarkably interesting life.

[Paulbarbee]

I clicked "No, but plan to in the future" B/c I'm Baptist, but plan to visit a Catholic service sometime. I've also been to Presbyterian, Pentecostal, and Assemblies Of God churches, but the Pentecostal and AOG services were close enough to my tradition at the time that I didn't even think of them now.

[spl_cadet]

I've gone to a Baptist service once.

[Dave G]

Growing up in a small Texas town, it was not uncommon for the youth to visit other churches. So as a Methodist, I attended Baptist and Church of Christ that I remember. As a Christian in college I visited several denominations to try and find a fit, including Pentecostal, Charismatic and Catholic. At present I attend a non-denominational evangelical church.

[potato sundae]

i've been to a catholic funeral once, and i want to check out as many denominations as i can you know.

[NeilUnreal]

Yes, the Southern Baptists are a different bunch.

Aye, that we are...

-Neil

[One Bad Pig]

How many Twebbers have visited another religous denomination's services? (Any other denomination... for a Catholic it could mean going to a Lutheran Service, for a Buddhist it could mean going to a Hindu service, etc.)

I first went to a United Methodist church, grew up in an independent church (sang in the choir), visited a non-instrumental CoC, sang in my aunt's choir (Episcopalian), took up the offering in another aunt's church (Presbyterian), was an elder in my college fellowship (affiliated with the Christian & Missionary Alliance), visited a Vineyard Fellowship, and am now affiliated with a Southern Baptist church (where I sing in the choir), and semi-regularly attend another non-denominational church (loosely affiliated with the CMA).

I disliked the liturgical style of the Episcopal church enough that I doubt I would be comfortable in a RC or Orthodox service.

[Twilly Spree]

I've been to a Mennonite service and like a non-denomational thing. I don't know exactly what it was.

[Ric]

I visit different denominations within the Christian Church all of the time. :badger: It keeps me in shape! :thumb:

[Da Lone-Warrior]

I attended a Baptist-like Bible Church when my family lived in TX and I was between the ages 3 and 9. There I imbibed some fundamentalism and was taught in sunday school that men had one less rib than women.

I then moved to MN where I attended a Baptist General Conference church, which stems from the Swedish-Baptist Church.

I did live near a big Catholic Church, but never visited there. My first Catholic service I attended was as a 17 year-old when I was a freshman in college and visiting Ecuador. I took mass, not knowing that it was prohibited for non-Catholics to take Catholic Mass. My second year in college, I went to a wide range of churches, sometimes bedside baptist. Then, my third year in college I committed to my old home-church because the youth-group had deteriorated the previous year and I wanted to support the new youth group leader. Then, between my third and fourth year of college, I worked for two months with an Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Southern Detroit not too far from the old tiger stadium in the hispanic ghetto of Detroit that was experiencing Great-Depression-level unemployment due to so many auto-plants that had closed there. My fourth year of college I then attended an African-American Baptist Church and taught sunday-school there.

Then, when I went to grad-school, I tried out a United Methodist church for awhile because I was in a great bible-study with this wonderful Korean couple. He was a Physics PhD and she was an English PhD. I learned from them about how among the younger Koreans that about half were Christian and that they were very on fire about their faith, but that they often dealt with similar issues about what Christians should do as we do. I went there for about a year, but then stopped going because the sermons were so bad. They were very well-orated, but after the service I would ask my friends, "What was the point of that sermon?" and they wouldn't really know and so I wasn't being filled. At any rate, I then ended up going to a RCA church whose pastor was very biblical and kind of like a Baptist. He was a fan of John Piper, who I don't like because he is a Calvinist and the chief antagonist of my college professor Greg Boyd, who is a leading Open View Theist theologian.
On the summer after my third year in grad-school, my hardest year, I went on vacation to Italy and spent several days in Rome, mostly Christian Rome. I visited the catacombs and the vatican. I actually gave a confession in St. Petersburg, though I was open about not being Catholic from the start and the priest at the end read for me the prayer of Francis of Assissi. After I arrived back from my time in Italy, I was healed of the severity of my insomnia, which had gotten so bad that I needed to take medication to ensure I didn't fall asleep at 2-3am or so. It has relapsed some from time to time after that, but it was after my spiritual renewal in Rome that my academic career got turned around.

Now, I live in MX and attend a Baptist church that is very, very similar to a Southern Baptist Church, though it is unaffiliated. I don't understand the sermons to well, but they do sing a lot of the hymns, though they are all translated into Spanish.

dlw

[Gilgaron]

Just visited or attended an actual service?

[Da Lone-Warrior]

Just visited or attended an actual service?

The distinction being between sticking one's head in and out again versus staying and participating in the entire service?

dlw

[rocketman]

Quick note to Love-Warrior...

It is not wrong for non-Catholics to attend Mass...heck, we greatly encourage it! You simply can't partake in Communion. Is that what you meant in your post?

[RumTumTugger]

How many Twebbers have visited another religous denomination's services? (Any other denomination... for a Catholic it could mean going to a Lutheran Service, for a Buddhist it could mean going to a Hindu service, etc.)

I've gone to Midnight Mass with my Husband and his family(catholic) and Lutheran service with a friend of mine.

[Conductor42]

just visiting counts, imo

[elysian]

Let's see...

I was raised Catholic- so I'm really familiar with Catholic Mass- as well as special services like weddings, funerals and Good Friday service (Good Friday service is technically not Mass) but was confirmed (age 20) in a Lutheran church. Lutheran traditional liturgy is very similar to Catholic Mass- but contemporary service is a lot less formal and a lot more laid back. I have attended services and classes in many different churches-

Sunday Worship, Sunday School and VBS at my grandmother's Regular Baptist church,

Sunday Worship and Sunday School at a Black Independent Baptist church (I loved the music and dance!)

Sunday School, Wednesday Night Bible Study and VBS at a Church of Christ,

Sunday School and VBS at a Nazarene church,

Sunday Worship at a Pentecostal church, (which was a bit unnerving because I'm more used to the liturgical tradition...)

Sunday Worship, Sunday School, Wednesday Night Bible Study (numerous times) and a funeral at my sister's Southern Baptist church,

Two weddings in Presbyterian churches, (my other grandmother and my other sister)

And I almost forgot- my Dad's lawyer who is also a family friend, is Jewish. We were invited to the naming ceremonies for their sons which were held in the synagogue. The Rabbi repeated what he said in Hebrew in English so everyone could understand it, which was pretty cool of him.

Quite honestly I am comfortable worshipping God in many different ways- music, dance, formal/ informal. It is good to experience other traditions, as well as to discover and appreciate your own. :ahem: