Name A Church

[Salty]

Rapture Baptist Church?????

 

[JonC]

Ah....the good 'ole BPBCAPFO.

 

[agedman]

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Ah....the good 'ole BPBCAPFO.

is that an unknown tongue?

 

[JonC]

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is that an unknown tongue?

Only on the 2nd Sunday of the month.

 

[Rob_BW]

Rapture Baptist Church?????

Naw, let's really confuse them, make it past tense.

Raptured Baptist Church

 

[Salty]

NIV-NASV-New King James Version Baptist Church

 

[SheepWhisperer]

Foundational Baptist Church
Psalm 11:3

 

[Salty]

Foundational Baptist Church
Psalm 11:3

and their theme song would be "How Firm a Foundation" ?

 

[SheepWhisperer]

Good song!

 

[agedman]

Reconciliation Center

 

[Salty]

I wanted to get a bit serious here
The name of many churches end in Temple, Worship Center, Fellowship, ect.

It the organization, is a church, why not use the name church in the title?
Open for discussion

 

[agedman]

I wanted to get a bit serious here
The name of many churches end in Temple, Worship Center, Fellowship, ect.

It the organization, is a church, why not use the name church in the title?
Open for discussion

Could it be the focus is the preeminence of the building rather then the assembly that occupies the building?

Crystal Cathedral comes to mind.

 

[Salty]

Could it be the focus is the preeminence of the building rather then the assembly that occupies the building?

Crystal Cathedral comes to mind.

Excellent point!

 

[agedman]

Sort of off topic, but could a RCC be properly named “Huddled Masses Catholic Church?”

Or would that shame the statement attached to Ms. Liberty?

 

[thatbrian]

If you were to have the authority to name a church, what might you use to identify it as both the assembly of believers and doctrinal view?

Some that come to mind is:

Master's Sheep Pen of Baptists

Faith Baptist Church

Believers Baptist Church



What might you choose?

Biblically, a church was named after the city it was located in. I like that.

 

[Salty]

Biblically, a church was named after the city it was located in. I like that.

and then what do you call the next church in that city?

 

[thatbrian]

and then what do you call the next church in that city?

There is an argument to made that if there already is a gospel-preaching church in that city, then to plant another one is to cause a schism.

 

[Squire Robertsson]

Which is why I tend to favor street or location (neighborhood) based names. Though if the meeting house is located across the street from a park that works too.

 

[Salty]

There is an argument to made that if there already is a gospel-preaching church in that city, then to plant another one is to cause a schism.

Depends on how big the city is.

Would it really make since to only have the New York City Baptist Church -
Or am I missing something.

 

[Squire Robertsson]

When you have a city the size of San Francisco, more than one assembly of Believers is not schismatic. Also, the case maybe the other Gospel preaching church is not of the same faith and order, say its Orthodox Presbyterian or Free Methodist.

There is an argument to made that if there already is a gospel-preaching church in that city, then to plant another one is to cause a schism.