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Christ Alive Church enniscorthy

  • 28-05-2012 8:05pm
    #1
    newbie01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14 ✭


    Hi

    My daughter has started to go to Christ Alive Church in enniscorthy on sundays. Now we dont push religion on her, we let her choose for herself.
    All i want is to know some info about it. Never heard of Christ Alive Church. what is it about? What do they pray about?
    I am just little bit nervous about the road she is taking.
    I dont know what they are about.


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  • #2
    PDN
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,686 ✭✭✭✭PDN


    They are an offshoot from Grace Family Church in Dundalk. A bit too much emphasis on financial prosperity for my taste - but then everybody's different.

    Doctrinally, they would hold to a fairly standard Evangelical/Pentecostal set of beliefs. Certainly you have less to worry about than if your daughter was going out with friends and getting drunk etc.


  • #3
    philologos
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,479 ✭✭✭✭philologos


    Hi newbie01

    Welcome to the forum :) - It's natural that you should be concerned about your daughter. It seems that she is at that point in life where she's starting to define her identity. She's searching for what's really true, and what is the ultimate purpose of reality. That's entirely normal. It's also completely natural that you want to know about the church that she's started to go to.

    Just some general pointers.

    1) Could you get in touch with their pastor, and ask them one to one about their position? I'm sure that they will be perfectly open and understanding for you to meet with them and discuss your concerns. I'm sure that they would keep it confidential.

    2) Could you go along, and see what its like for yourself?

    3) Have you discussed with your daughter as to why she might be making this decision and why she might want to seek this? - This might put you both at ease, her in the sense that you understand why she's doing this, and you in that you've heard the reasoning!

    I can relate to your situation from your daughters perspective. Personally, as a teenager I decided to read the Bible, and I decided to seek out in respect to the big questions of life, and look to what Christianity has to say about them. Ultimately I was convinced that the Gospel was true, and that I needed to repent and accept Jesus as my living Saviour. I look to Jesus as an example by which to base my life on. By the mercy I know that Jesus acheived for me on the cross - I realised that He was the only means of forgiveness for sin, this is a springboard by which I learn to love and serve others. That was 5 years ago, I'm still following Jesus.

    I've had a look at the church website. It seems to be an evangelical Christian church. Meaning a church that puts a lot of emphasis on the Bible as God's revealed word to mankind. A church that looks to the life and example of Jesus, and a church that understands that the only way to know God the Father is through His Son Jesus.

    I guess the concern for many people who would be from a Catholic background is that Christianity and its expression in common society is becoming more diverse. You're right to be skeptical, and you're right to want to look into it more. I'm confident that there is nothing sinister about the aims on their website.

    This is an exciting moment in your daughters life. She's deciding who she wants to stand for. I'd really encourage you to try and share the journey with her, try and find out a bit more about why she has decided to do - if even to put your own mind at ease! It's inevitable that your daughter is going to make her own decisions about these type of things. The best thing you can do is engage with her on a positive level about it.


  • #4
    HamletOrHecuba
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 676 ✭✭✭HamletOrHecuba


    PDN wrote: »
    They are an offshoot from Grace Family Church in Dundalk. A bit too much emphasis on financial prosperity for my taste - but then everybody's different.

    Indeed everyone is different, but if they are saying that people should desire financial prosperity or even that it is a good thing they are going against God.

    "But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which plunge men into destruction and perdition."

    1 Timothy 6:9.

    "For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows."

    1 Timothy 6:10

    "Come now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you."

    James 5:1

    God Incarnate announced misery unto the rich.

    "But woe unto you that are rich! for you have received your consolation."

    Luke 6:24

    Material prosperity is a curse. If they put stress on this than they should be saluted because doing so to God's taste and He will reward for going against the tide of an apostate society.

    " for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God."

    Luke 16:15


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