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Dr. Jamie Jenkins: What's in a (church) name?
The Rev. Dr. Jamie Jenkins (UMC)What is in a name? Sometimes it is obvious but sometimes it is hard to tell.
I have always been interested and am often amused at the names of churches. One survey of 95,000 churches shows that there are 11,852 "first" churches. 20,219 are named after "saints" (St. James, St. Paul). 6,749 carry names of various mountains and hills that include many biblical sites (Mt. Nebo, Mt. Bethel) and some are probably derived from the city or some other geographic designation (Pleasant Hill, Sugar Hill).
The name serves a practical purpose for many, such as Second Avenue and Tenth Street United Methodist Churches, in identifying the location. Then you have the churches whose name indicates some biblical or theological principle or concept. These include grace, faith, messiah, covenant, harmony, prince of peace, good shepherd, and others.
Most of the church names listed above are very ordinary and common place. There are others that catch my attention and pique my interest. For instance, I wonder if the Baby Farms Baptist Church is memorializing a particular infant or is it located where babies are produced in quantity.
There are many Methodist churches named after their founder, John Wesley. But I am curious about the theology of the John Wesley Baptist Church.
Dr. Jamie Jenkins: Reading and studying the scripture is important
The Rev. Dr. Jamie Jenkins (UMC)I was brought up on the King James Bible. It was the only Bible I knew for years. I grew up in a religious environment that strongly encouraged memorization of scripture, a tradition we would do well to claim or re-claim. There was a "memory verse" for every Sunday School lesson and many people committed large sections of scripture to memory, all in 17th century King James English.
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