what is the difference between lutherans, methodist, presbyterians and baptist?

Question

I have been born and raised lutheran but I am thinking of looking for a new church. There are no other lutheran churches around so I thought I might try something new. We prefer a more traditional service.

Pastor Art I would think a religious leader would be more compasionate and less critical. God bless you anyway

Answer 1

Try Googling questions like this rather than using this site. The problem here is that you will get all kinds of snide remarks and maybe nothing useful.

I just googled "christian denominations" and found this site:
http://www.religionfacts.com/christianity/denominations.htm

Answer 2

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Difficult to advise you. Stay away from major cults like roman catholics, charismatics, seventh day adventists, mormons, Jehovah witnesses, scientology ..... If you cannot find a good local church, perhaps you should worship at home. Don't have the institutionalised mentality that you need to go to a physical building as a 'church'. When two or three are gathered, with the presence of the blessed Holy Spirit, that is the true Church.

Generally:
Baptist baptise by immersion and do not baptise children
Presbyterians baptise by immersion or sprinkling and do not baptise children

Here are few distinctives to look for in a :
1) uses KJV
2) Calvinistic rather than Arminian
3) only have men preachers
4) women submit to the ordinance of and wear head coverings (as in 1 Cor 11)
5) do not practise the demonic tongues today!


Anyway, the most important thing is that, they preach the Strait Gate, Narrow Way Gospel; which is many are called, few chosen. Today, the hirelings 'perverted' the preaching of the Gospel such that, many are called, 'all' are chosen! Perhaps, email me to see if I could help any further.
Shalom.

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Answer 3

Of the churches you listed, only Lutherans have the sacraments. The rest have been influenced to varying degrees by Calvinism and have a quite different concept from Lutherans of what salvation is and how it works.

The Baptist church in particular would be very foreign to you, and they will tell you that your baptism is invalid.

If you are ELCA, you *might* be comfortable in an Episcopal church. If you're LCMS or WELS, that probably won't work, though a conservative Anglican church might.

Answer 4

difference lutherans methodist presbyterians baptist

Answer 5

Not too terribly much. The main differences occur within the structure of the churches, as in how they are operated and by whom.

I attend a Baptist church but went to a Lutheran church in college because I had friends there. One difference I noticed was that while I believe that the Eucharist is purely symbolic (Baptist leanings to be sure), Lutherns believe it is spiritually the body of Christ. My friend said he would never be able to take communion at a Baptist church for that reason.

Also, Baptist churches do not typically do a catechism, and do not do infant baptisms.

I cannot speak to the other two churches as I have no experience with them.

God bless you as you seek a body of believers with whom you can praise His name.

Answer 6

The Reformed Lapsii: This is a merge between Cathari & Lapsii. Peter Waldo's Waldensians of N. Italy, South Carolina & Argentina, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Anglicans, Methodists, Mennonites, Amish.

o Key Tennant:
§ Various modes of Baptism, some infants baptized, (sprinklers, baptize babies,
§ women preachers).
§ Heirarchy over local assemblies,
§ Call themselves Protestants, Buy into Ecumenical Movement
§ Combined Authority of Church & Bible.


The Cathari: Welsh Believers, Anabaptists, Valdese, Bogomols, Paulicians, Henricians, Petrobrussians, Culdee, Baptists, Waldensians, and any who hold to historic "Baptist" doctrines & Practices.

o Key Tennant:
§ Baptism by immersion of professors only,
§ Jesus is only authority over the churches autonomy of local church,
§ Believe in individual local churches that answer to God uniquely.
§ Rejection of Ecumenical Ideology
§ absolute authority of Bible.

Personally, I hope you at least visit an old fashioned Baptist Church, and give it a few services to grow on you.

Wish you well in your search for a church family.

Answer 7

There are slight differences, but there are differences. Lutherans, Methodist, and Presbyterians all have rituals. Baptist, are not as traditional. I will throw another one out there for you. There are Assembly of God services that are traditional, but you have to find them. :)

Answer 8

There's not a huge difference between them all, I think Baptists are a little more ..eh. If you're a Lutheran, I'd suggest a Methodist church. They're very similar in their teachings, but it all really depends on what you want to learn! Try several different churches until you find one that suits your beliefs.

Answer 9

This is an interdenominational website for Christians, with a separate section for all the churches you listed, you should be able to find everything you want to know here...

http://foru.ms/f75-congregation.html

Answer 10

Eh, Baptists are, unfortunately, some of the most hypocritical people on the face of this world. i'm not meaning all baptists, but alot of them. especially the preachers. they say that you should give to god or something like that, but that money's going to thier wallets. yeah, that's most churches, but hell.

also, those evangelical baptists happen to be those who drive the best cars, and have the multi billion dollar homes.

i'm not a churchgoer myself (only strayed back onto a path resembling half christianity recently) but i would say a methodist church or a non denominational. if you want a traditional service, however, most methodist churches do have them.