Thursday, June 28, 2018

Finding Peace In A Christian Church

By Rebecca Fox


The universe is vast. The majority of it cannot be comprehended by the naked eye and especially not while standing on a single planet. But in that vastness is power, and in that power, human being find meaning. Now, this meaning can be discerned in Christian church Wichita KS.

Now, people hold religious beliefs for a lot of reasons. For many, it is habit, something they did with their families growing up that stuck with them to adulthood. Others simply hold sincere beliefs in their particular deity of choice.

Throughout history, religion has shaped the world. It was in its name, under the banner of the cross, that many countries went out and colonized other countries. Faith was also the foundation of many monarchies, with spiritual leaders often wielding the same level or even greater levels of power than a monarch.

The most widely practiced faith in the world is Christianity. With around 2 and a half billion followers, it holds around one third of the total population of the world. It can trace its genesis to the Middle East, where over two thousand years ago, a carpenter stopped carpentry and started preaching instead, telling people to love and forgive each other and not to judge other people.

A church is a building. It is where the worship generally happens. They can ranger from unassuming buildings that look almost like houses to Gothic cathedrals that would put many palaces to shame, especially in the largest sect, which has its own nation state.

The most prominent and most populous branch of Christianity is Catholicism, which traces its historical roots back to original disciples of the carpenter. For a long time, it was the only branch. Then several splits happened in the Middle Ages and new sects branched out. In certain countries, some sects are more widely worshiped than others.

Each branch of the religion is going to have different focuses on the gospels left behind by the founder and the original disciples. However, across all of them will be the belief in a supreme being, the divinity of the carpenter, and the spreading of love, as love was the original message. Some will have a greater emphasis on punishing the guilty whereas others will focus greatly on reconciliation and forgiveness.

The reality is that there are unscrupulous individuals out there who look to take advantage of the religious beliefs that people may hold. Many of them will often ask for money and say that the deity they all worship says that the parishioners have to give it to the preacher in order to spread the message. Oddly enough, these preachers seem to forget that the carpenter whose footsteps they follow in often walked the desert on feet covered in nothing but simple sandals.

Human beings worship. Worship can be done in churches. No matter the venue, the main message should be of love.




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