2007-04-19 23:58:53 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I suppose I am. Well, for many years I went to an Apostolic Protestant Church, and my dad worked for the Apostolic movement in NZ and preached a bit. But me and my family left that church and now have a house church, in our house. So we disagree with a lot of what we saw in that church. My dad says he's more baptist, now. Who knows. Yeah, I guess I'm Protestant. What does that mean? If Protestant means you have to be rich and not give much to help the poor, I'm certainly not Protestant. But I guess that's not what it means - though that's what almost all Protestants I know are doing (otherwise they seem like caring, good people - contradictory but true). Baptists seem to be a bit better than Protestants on that issue - at least they support missionaries, and poor people overseas more from what I've seen. Whereas many Protestant churches I've been to seem on the surface to be: big bands, expensive (expensive!) music systems and buildings, church giving funding church cafeterias, planting churches in the West - but the poor are very much secondary. I've never heard a sermon from a Protestant church about giving more to the poor. Its always sermons about giving more to the church. But many churches are hardly helping the poor). SORRY long answer. Ultimately, I suppose I'm 1/2 PROTESTANT.
2007-04-20 00:36:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Apostolic Pentacost.
2007-04-20 07:02:58 · answer #2 · answered by birdsflies 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nominally I'm protestant (presbyterian) but in reality I have no interest in religious practice.
2007-04-20 07:09:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
census will tell if any.
jtm
2007-04-20 07:02:56 · answer #4 · answered by Jesus M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋