is this an Evangelical thing?

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Anonymous wrote:Allow your daughter to go and afterwards ask her about her experience. Every church is not the same neither are all people. There's always a few bad apples in the bunch. I've noticed that many Catholics disparage Evangelicals without failing to mentions the flaws of Catholicism: priests raping children, nuns sleeping with priests, the Papacy advocating for one world religion.

Do you see the point I'm making? If I were to talk about Islam I go point out extremists who bomb people, have multiplied wives and treat their women as second class citizens. In every branch of religion there are people who are extremists.

Evangelicals are the extremists of Protestant Christianity.

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Anonymous wrote:Allow your daughter to go and afterwards ask her about her experience. Every church is not the same neither are all people. There's always a few bad apples in the bunch. I've noticed that many Catholics disparage Evangelicals without failing to mentions the flaws of Catholicism: priests raping children, nuns sleeping with priests, the Papacy advocating for one world religion.

Do you see the point I'm making? If I were to talk about Islam I go point out extremists who bomb people, have multiplied wives and treat their women as second class citizens. In every branch of religion there are people who are extremists.

Precisely why I am no Longer Catholic and attend N Evangelical church. Priests should be allowed to marry.

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Anonymous wrote:My DD (4th grade) has a few friends who go to evangelical megachurches and they are constantly asking her to go to church or religion class with them. She even got an invitation card at school to go to some big event at one friend's church (I thought it was a birthday party invitation at first and thought huh...interesting she's holding her birthday party at church!) It's just interesting to me because we are Catholic and it would just never occur to me to have DD invite friends to mass or CCD, and thinking of our Lutheran/Presbyterian/Methodist/etc. friends that's not a thing either.

Any Evangelical christians care to chime in?

Aren't Evangelicals supposed to evangelize?

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^ ALL Christians are called to evangelize. Matt 28:18-20

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If you let your daughter go to an evangelic church prepare her for some unfriendly comments towards Catholics. I am Catholic and grew up in a city with several mega churches. Comments like "Catholics aren't CHRISTians" or "We've had a lot of Catholics become saved".

This messed with my head at 12, I didn't understand the amount of ignorance going on and instead felt incredibly small for my Catholic upbringing.

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Anonymous wrote:Evangelical here. I have two master degrees and a phd. I have zero interest in converting anyone. I am not part of any "church", let alone megachurch.

Isn't an obligation to convert a part of evangelicalism? Evangelizing = spreading the faith.

Nope.

What denomination are you?

None. I refuse to be part of any. I have the Bible and I am able to read.

I think you need to read your dictionary.

I think you need to pray to God for the spite that dwells in your soul.

No spite, I just have a better command of the English language than the PP who doesn’t know what evangelical means.

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Anonymous wrote:Allow your daughter to go and afterwards ask her about her experience. Every church is not the same neither are all people. There's always a few bad apples in the bunch. I've noticed that many Catholics disparage Evangelicals without failing to mentions the flaws of Catholicism: priests raping children, nuns sleeping with priests, the Papacy advocating for one world religion.

Do you see the point I'm making? If I were to talk about Islam I go point out extremists who bomb people, have multiplied wives and treat their women as second class citizens. In every branch of religion there are people who are extremists.

Precisely why I am no Longer Catholic and attend N Evangelical church. Priests should be allowed to marry.

Yeah there are better options.

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We are Christians (Episcopalians); we go to church regularly and our kids have been involved in youth activities, particularly service projects. We have occasionally invited their friends to join them in these projects, but we always ask their parents first and tell them there's no proselytizing involved. Most of the time, folks seem very comfortable with this and we've had kids from other denominations and faiths join us. But this is very different from attending a worship service or any kind of event where their is proselytizing. Just the thought of that makes me cringe.

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Anonymous wrote:We are Christians (Episcopalians); we go to church regularly and our kids have been involved in youth activities, particularly service projects. We have occasionally invited their friends to join them in these projects, but we always ask their parents first and tell them there's no proselytizing involved. Most of the time, folks seem very comfortable with this and we've had kids from other denominations and faiths join us. But this is very different from attending a worship service or any kind of event where their is proselytizing. Just the thought of that makes me cringe.

Evangelicals are different, they invite you to church. They invite you to raise your hands and let the spirit anoint you during the worship music. They’ll let you know God put it on their heart to talk to do, to pray for you, to help bring you to salvation. They’ll gladly cleanse you of sin in their lead music pastor’s luxury pool and announce you a born again Christian. They just want to invite Jesus into your heart.

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Anonymous wrote:Evangelical here. I have two master degrees and a phd. I have zero interest in converting anyone. I am not part of any "church", let alone megachurch.

Isn't an obligation to convert a part of evangelicalism? Evangelizing = spreading the faith.

Nope.

What denomination are you?

None. I refuse to be part of any. I have the Bible and I am able to read.

I think you need to read your dictionary.

I think you need to pray to God for the spite that dwells in your soul.

No spite, I just have a better command of the English language than the PP who doesn’t know what evangelical means.

Prideful much? You may have a good command of English but you don't have good command of the Bible:

""Whoever slanders his neighbor secretly I will destroy. Whoever has a haughty look and an arrogant heart I will not endure."

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Anonymous wrote:We are Christians (Episcopalians); we go to church regularly and our kids have been involved in youth activities, particularly service projects. We have occasionally invited their friends to join them in these projects, but we always ask their parents first and tell them there's no proselytizing involved. Most of the time, folks seem very comfortable with this and we've had kids from other denominations and faiths join us. But this is very different from attending a worship service or any kind of event where their is proselytizing. Just the thought of that makes me cringe.

Evangelicals are different, they invite you to church. They invite you to raise your hands and let the spirit anoint you during the worship music. They’ll let you know God put it on their heart to talk to do, to pray for you, to help bring you to salvation. They’ll gladly cleanse you of sin in their lead music pastor’s luxury pool and announce you a born again Christian. They just want to invite Jesus into your heart.

I understand that evangelicals are different. I'm saying this may be well-meaning, but it is overbearing, intimidating and inappropriate, especially with regard to children who are guests. In that sense, it is not loving our neighbors as ourselves.

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Anonymous wrote:Evangelical here. I have two master degrees and a phd. I have zero interest in converting anyone. I am not part of any "church", let alone megachurch.

Same here (two masters and a doctorate, work in STEM field). I am non-denominational Christian and have many friends from a wide variety of backgrounds...even <gasp> Catholic. I don't try to convert them and vice versa...however, we enjoy many family oriented events together.