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What denomination are you?  

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  1. 1. What denomination would currently suit you the best?

    • Catholic
      26
    • Eastern Orthodoxy
      17
    • Oriental Orthodoxy
      0
    • Church of the East
      0
    • A Proto-Protestant group
      0
    • Lutheran
      10
    • Anglican
      11
    • Continental Reformed church
      1
    • Presbyterian
      11
    • Congregational
      3
    • Anabaptist
      5
    • Plymouth Brethren and Free Evangelical church
      2
    • Methodist
      4
    • Pietism and Holiness Movement
      0
    • Baptist
      23
    • Pentecostal
      3
    • Charismatic Movement
      0
    • Neo-Charismatic Movement
      0
    • African Initiated churches
      0
    • My choice is on the next list
      63
  2. 2. More Choices

    • United and uniting churches
      0
    • Quaker
      2
    • Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement
      3
    • Adventism
      0
    • Church of God
      1
    • Sabbath-Keeping movements, separated from Adventism
      0
    • Sacred Name groups
      0
    • Other Protestant churches
      13
    • Latter Day Saint movement
      15
    • Oneness Pentecostal
      0
    • Unitarianism and Universalism
      13
    • Bible Student groups
      0
    • Swedenborgianism
      0
    • Christian Science
      0
    • Other Nontrinitarian churches
      0
    • New Thought
      0
    • Esoteric Christianity
      0
    • Racialist groups
      0
    • nterdenominational (ecumenical) churches and organizations
      2
    • My choice is on another list
      130
  3. 3. More Choices

    • Southcottism
      0
    • Apostolic churches and Irvingism
      0
    • Messianic Judaism / Jewish Christianity
      0
    • I'm not a Christian but I wanted to vote anyway.
      15
    • My choice is on another list
      159
    • Jehovah's Witness
      5


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I took my list from the contents list on this wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_denominations. You can probably find your denomination on that page and see what it is categorized under there. If I've missed anything please let me know. Also, some of you might prefer to be unaffiliated with a denomination but for the sake of trying to get a picture of where the Christians on this board sit just pick what group that would match you the best. You have to vote in each question so just choose the "My choice is on another list" option for the two lists that don't contain your choice.

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I voted Presbyterian but just wanted to note that there are some pretty significant differences between Presbyterians.  PCUSA is the largest and (based on my understanding) the most liberal/least traditional of the Presby. groups.   

 

Presbyterian Church in America, Orthodox Presbyterian, and Evangelical Presbyterian are (again, based on my understanding) much more conservative/traditional.

 

Then there are other smaller Presbyterian denominations that I don't know anything at all about.

 

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Wouldn't let me vote because I need at least one post on the forums.  :)

 

Anyway, I identify and feel kinship to the Reformed Church because that is how I was raised, but now I go  to a Methodist church because Reformed churches are rare in these parts and there isn't one near me. 

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Well I don't mean to be rude but I don't think you're going to get a great picture from the options on that list. If you want a survey of Christianity, there needs to be more options within the broad category of Protestant. As it is you will probably get a ton of "other" responses.

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I am not affiliated with a particular denomination, nor do I wish to be.  I am a follower of Christ.  I tend on the side of conservative Christian I suppose, but I am not really a good fit for most denominations because I do not like the clergy/laity distinction of almost all the churches we have attended.

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I go to a Baptist church, but I'm not really Baptist. :lol:

 

I go to a Methodist church, but I'm not really Methodist. Although, come to think of it, my church isn't terribly Methodist, either. It's some sort of weird Baptist/Methodist/Presbyterian hybrid...

 

I voted Lutheran, because my theology fits best with Confessional Lutheranism. Just haven't found any churches nearby, unfortunately.

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Jehovah's Witness are going to be mad at this poll!

 

I am LCMS Lutheran. I was raised in an agnostic/JW household and became LCMS Lutheran as an adult on my own free will. Met and married a RC and converted, we left as a family a few years ago and now all of us are LCMS Lutheran. Coincidentally, my mom is now an RC married to a Lutheran. :) She went through the conversion process a few months after I became a Lutheran. My father is a Buddhist if you ask him. Strange how that works. 

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Didn't see ours on there.  We go to a Churches of God - which is totally different than the Pentacostal Church of God which has a very similar name and is on the list.

 

Through the years we've been to oodles of different denominations - generally sort of conservative, until I see what really conservative churches are like.  Then I consider us moderate.  :coolgleamA:

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It said I have to be a member before I can vote.

 

LOL.

 

I most closely align with Calvary Chapel.  According to the Wikipedia article, Calvary Chapel would be considered Charismatic. I am very familiar with CC beliefs but would never consider it charismatic. But in line with the poll, I tried to vote Charismatic.

 

However, I go to a non-denom church that was originally a Southern Baptist church plant, led by a Baptist pastor.

 

I don't think this poll can possibly be as simple as it would seem!  It will be very entertaining, though, because it already seems that people go to what they don't align with, or the other way around!

 

 

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I have no idea.

 

I attend a Southern Baptist Church, because that is what my dh prefers. (just to confuse your list even more, the different flavors of Baptist are wide and varied and contain some pretty big differences). I really don't feel connected to any one denomination though.

Lutherans are also like that. I went to school with Apostolic Lutherans and they have more in common with Menonites then with other Christian or Lutheran denominations. Also even among the 3 major Lutheran groups in this country, there is a wide difference. We once went to a Wisconsin synod Lutheran church and we felt completely out of place!

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I agree with 06 and I understand your intent, so I'll vote Eastern Orthodox.. however I don't believe that EO or Roman Catholics are denominational... that is a Protestant construct.

 

I'm also wondering the reason behind the poll?  Curiosity?'

 

edited to add:  I cannot vote... even after posting something on another thread. 

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I'm not sure I fit on the list. We are non denominational. Very much like Grace in Los Angeles (John MacArthur's church) but lean slightly more convenantal instead of straight up dispensational (I think the bible indicates support for both). We are reformed, evangelical Protestants, but aren't under a parent church organization.

 

If I had to pick one, I'd pick Reformed Baptist, but there are no congregations in my area belonging to that denom. We can worship are many churches provided their doctrine is solid on at least the main points of pneumatology, soteriology, etc.

 

I picked Baptist but that's a misnomer, because there are immense differences among baptist denominations. The one I align with is closer to a conservative, reformed Presbyterian than a conservative, arminian First Baptist. Big differences there and the one title is about as descriptive as 'Christian'.

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I agree with 06 and I understand your intent, so I'll vote Eastern Orthodox.. however I don't believe that EO or Roman Catholics are denominational... that is a Protestant construct.

 

I'm also wondering the reason behind the poll?  Curiosity?'

 

edited to add:  I cannot vote... even after posting something on another thread. 

 

You have to vote on each question. Just choose the "My choice is on one of the other lists" option.

 

My purpose was curiosity and to see if there were any others who fell into my camp. :)

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Didn't see ours on there. We go to a Churches of God - which is totally different than the Pentacostal Church of God which has a very similar name and is on the list.

 

Through the years we've been to oodles of different denominations - generally sort of conservative, until I see what really conservative churches are like. Then I consider us moderate. :coolgleamA:

Yup. I consider us doctrinally conservative/traditional. We can align with multiple credal statements like Westminster or London Baptist Catechisms, but we wear pants, cut hair, dance, drink if one desires, allow public school, etc. So while I consider myself doctrinally very conservative I've seen some pretty extreme definitions of that which don't fit us at all. At a soccer game or in the grocery store you wouldn't be able to tell us apart from anyone else without striking up a conversation specific to morality and religion. Maybe a lack of cursing would distinguish?

 

Anyway... Off the bunny trail!

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You have to vote on each question. Just choose the "My choice is on one of the other lists" option.

 

My purpose was curiosity and to see if there were any others who fell into my camp. :)

 

okay.. thanks!

 

I guess from your avatar that you are Lutheran (former LCMS myself).  I believe there is a Lutheran Social Group here too.  I don'tk now how active it is, however. 

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okay.. thanks!

 

I guess from your avatar that you are Lutheran (former LCMS myself).  I believe there is a Lutheran Social Group here too.  I don'tk now how active it is, however. 

Nope, I'm Anabaptist. :) We're unaffiliated but we would probably best fit with a Charity church. 

 

About my avatar, I just really like the victorious lamb symbol and this one was public domain.

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It's complicated. I was born and raised mainstream (Brigham Young) Latter-day Saint, but I disagree with much of its current teachings and practices. When I go to church, however, it's usually our local LDS congregation. I'm more theologically aligned with liberal, inclusive Christianity (United Church of Christ or Episcopalian). Within the Latter-day movement, my beliefs and observance of Mormonism are most like those of Community of Christ (the portion of the church that was led by Joseph Smith's son and wife in Illinois instead of the group that was led to Utah by Brigham Young). If I didn't have unbreakable family and community ties to Brighamite Mormonism, I would probably attend a congregation that actually matched my beliefs.

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That's awkward!

 

Nah, it's okay.  When we met with the session before joining the church (this was pre-kids), we asked whether it would be an issue for church discipline if we had kids and chose not to have them baptized.  They said it would not.  They said if we decided to stand in the foyer and hand out fliers about how infant baptism is wrong, they'd probably have a problem with that. ;)  It does mean that my DH will not be made an officer in the church, since he can't say that he agrees fully with the Westminster Confession of Faith.  

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I attend a Southern Baptist church because it's the closest to my beliefs available but still a far cry from where I would like to be. I guess I would be considered Reformed Baptist but I've never been to a Reformed Baptist church-lol. I was raised in and out of Baptist churches. I went to a Church of God for years as an adult and finally found myself back to my Baptist roots. However, I am not happy with my church at all-I just feel that it's the best of the worst in my area.

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Jehovah's Witness here....didn't occur to me to be mad....saving best for last and all that  :lol: I've been surprised by how many Witnesses are on this forum...I think I know of 6 others? 

 

Also, JWs are listed under "Bible Student groups"  on the Wiki so technically the OP didn't forget us :) but I wouldn't have seen that and thought that was what I should pick; interesting none the less. 

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The Eastern Orthodox numbers really surprise me. I didn't realize how much they were represented here. 

 

I would guess there are 20-25 EO ladies here .... not regular post-ers but ones who check in once in awhile either here or (more often) on the Exploring Orthodoxy social group.  Hello!  I voted along the lines of Debbi, chose EO since it was there, but are pre-denominational if we're gonna get nit-picky. 

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