What is Charis Fellowship? (Grace Brethren Churches)
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- Опубликовано: 25 июл 2024
- Charis Fellowship, formerly known as the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches is a Schwarzenau Brethren tradition denomination. This video is about what they believe.
00:00 History
01:10 Core Beliefs
01:58 Ordinances (Baptism & Communion)
03:17 Scripture & Position Statements
03:49 Creation & Evolution
04:27 Sin & Salvation, Eternal Security, Calvinism
05:21 Spirit Baptism & Charismatic Theology
06:12 Eschatology
06:35 Marriage & Sexuality
07:08 Divorce & Remarriage
07:55 Human Life Issues
08:19 Positions not Held
08:50 Nature of the Church, Polity, Membership
09:44 Offices of the Church
10:21 Conservative Grace Brethren Churches Split
10:38 Establishment of Charis Alliance
10:55 Statistics
My family joined a Grace Brethren church when we moved to Iowa in the early 90's when I was a kid. Whatever kind of sandwiches they made for the Lord's Supper fellowship meal were absolutely fantastic, and my mom would get on to me for eating too many of them!
Each day more denominations are covered. Great video as always
This video makes Charis sound fairly ideal to me. I look forward to visiting one to get a better feel for the way they do church.
I am a Southern Baptist who was recently accepted to Grace College and Theological Seminary, this helps me greatly to better understand the church and weigh my decision on weather or not to commit.
I was looking for a comment about Grace, since I go there as well. Did you end up committing? I am enjoying the time here a lot, so far. Blessings!
@@FRodriguez_ Yep!! I am currently a first year student, I am loving it so far!
Any update on your experience?
@@t23sp1 It’s doing amazing, just finished my first year! Had roommate troubles the first semester so I moved around a bit on campus and lived in 2 dorms (I switched over the semester change) but I love everything about Grace. It’s an on campus community that is very restrictive about communiting so get ready to spend more on room and board then actual tuition. But other than that it’s amazing, it’s not perfect, but this is probably the most conservative school in Indiana and depending on how you define “conservative” potentially a competitor for the most conservative school in all of North America. It’s small and the academics are pretty hardcore for a “low ranking school” (college ranks are a scam in my opinion though.) Overall it’s amazing, their program to graduate in three years is borderline miraculous for a student who really wants to push themselves and I came in with a few credits so I’m hoping to graduate in 2.5 years total. (So since I just finished one that would be like the fall of 2025)
Anyway TLDR: 8/10 would attend again, awsome school if you want any undergraduate degree or any Mdiv related degree, there are a few problems with it that I can get into and some liberals that you might run into if you stumble into the wrong department but overall the academic and religious experience is very good. The school really does respect and understand faith and it’s a beautiful thing.
Honestly if you have discord or somn feel free to drop I really love Grace and if I wasn’t working with such an insane schedule I would have applied to be a student ambassador.
Basically I love it but it does have “private school problems” but still An amazing school.
@@johngalt5166 This is very helpful for me as I am a Reformed Baptist with southern baptist roots myself who is planning on planting a church through the SendNetwork (SBC). I am currently working on my MABS through Master's (MacArthur's school in Sant Clarita, CA) online, but once I'm done I'll be very limited to what I can do for a potential doctorate degree as I live in OH. GTS seems to offer a hybrid online/in person DMin degree that I've been considering due to just the logistical limitations. In your opinion, a Calvinistic SBS guy, would I gel well with GTS doctoral program?
Thanks for the helpful review and summary of our Fellowship's history! One of our adult Sunday school classes is currently looking at our historical context and statement of faith and I plan to get this video in front of them.
That's great! I've been wanting to have a video on Charis Fellowship for a while, and I'm glad I got to make it.
i always wondered what they believed. Thanks
Thank you for your everlasting committment to research and plainness of speech to help us understand the differences in denominations.☺️😇
Another excellent summary.
Good stuff. I was on staff at a Grace Brethren Church in Pennsylvania about a decade ago. I still learned a bunch from this video - thanks!
Glad to hear it, Matt!
thanks for the video! even learned some more info about my own church (Charis), we are autonomous and our church teaches a biblical adam and eve and young creation. leans more calvinistic and is very evangelistic oriented. we are strongly encouraged to share Christ with others
Irresistible grace. No one has to be evangelical and share the gospel because god will save the elect one way or another. Your time would be better spent feeding the hungry, visiting those in prison, and caring for the widows.
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Thanks for covering more of us Anabaptists and Brethren!! Well done!
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I love your videos.
Thanks Elektra!
@@ReadyToHarvest you’re welcome. Keep the amazing videos coming my friend.
Very good.
Great unbiased video
Also l say l am happy this video was so unbiased as a liberal THEOLOGICALLY
@@gabietrifonov9187 all Protestants are theological liberals
@@acekoala457 ok sure dummy
@@acekoala457 how so? Can we really call fundematalist group like evilgelicals (see what l did there) and most pentactals liberal? Like to hear why you think that way
@@gabietrifonov9187 The overton window is weird in religion isn't it? I grew up in a centrist church and thought that was 'normal' until I got to college. Went to college in the countryside and got a dose of how far theologically 'right' could be considered 'normal.' I went to a Church of the Brethren service because a friend was singing. The handout said in it to pray for the people of Japan who have been 'deceived by the lies of Buddhism and materialism.' Of course, being someone who supports old-fashioned ideas like the Constitution and Western civilization, my first thought was "How dare you call someone else's religion a 'lie' especially publicly? It's crass, primitive and uncivil, so why would Christians do it?" All of the nominally conservative, Republican old people at my church would have rolled their eyes at such absolutism. But nobody at that service even thought it was unusual.
Of course that was 20 years ago when mainstream people were allowed to have political and religious beliefs that crossed the aisle. We used to call it 'critical thinking' before internet activists informed us that diplomacy and discernment were actually 'selling out.'
Funny enough, I remain a centrist even as a pagan/new thought person. I'm serious about theology, and am even solidly pro life. But people are increasingly seeing the need to align on *every* issue, theologically or politically. The trend is to either water down the idea of scriptural inerrancy or double down on it. There is a third or fourth option obviously, but we're not allowed to go with third options in a polarized age, are we?
I hope you do a video on the Covent Brethren Church since I am very interested in them and can't find much on their history.
Ha e you done one on the Old Catholic Church?
Would you cover the various Mormon denominations? I don’t where you draw the line on “orthodoxy” but I know you’ve covered Unitarians. Would be very interesting to see a comparison of the LDS, FLDS, community of Christ, temple lot, etc
Can I put a request in?
Can you do an overview of the many reformed groups/denominations in the Netherlands?
Great video and very insightful. But I will say, if one holds to eternal security, you are a Calvinist. It’s functionally impossible to be truly Arminian (absolute free will) and uphold eternal security. In this belief, you are free to be saved as much as your as free to be unsaved.
It's amazing to see all the differences in the way people believe totally arbitrary stuff for no real reason. None of this stuff makes any sense, and people who follow the Bible disagree on everything, so how is anyone supposed to know what is true?
I still don't like that they changed the name of the church I was married in, raised my family in, and hoped to die in. The name of the church that is on my marriage license no longer can be found. The building and people are still there, the heritage is not.
i always wondered what they believed. Thanks