Comments on: What’s In A Name?

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:09:18 +0000

My favourite church name?
St. James Bond United Church.

No kidding. Really.

By: Mike S

Mike S — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 07:23:11 +0000

Why Corinth? Why no Thessalonica or Phillippi?

Phonics.

Corinth sounds just like it looks. The other two…not so much.

To the gentleman farmer/preachers who planted many of these churches, I’m sure it had to be a subconscious consideration…

By: Russell

Russell — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 01:31:13 +0000

I work at a 1st Presbyterian. But for community with others my age, I attend an SBC church-plant called Matthew's House. As in the Matthew whose roof was torn up my some people bringing their gimp friend to Jesus. It's kinda like University Baptist in Waco, TX. Distinctively Baptist church done in a way appealing to young whippersnappers. Anyway, I guess the name fits in the 2nd-place missional category, but I really like it and just wanted to share it.

By: Mort Chien

Mort Chien — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 21:29:53 +0000

I guess my favorite has been “Bucksnort Baptist Church” in Bucksnort Tennessee.

Another in Ft Wayne, IN used to advertise themselves as:
“Not your father’s church” until someone pointed out that people might not think of the Oldsmobile commercial and would capitalize the F in Father.

Mort

By: ChestertonianRambler

ChestertonianRambler — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 04:29:41 +0000

Last year I lived down the street from the Dallas suburb named Corinth.

Strangely, there was no First Corinthian Christian (/Baptist/Presbyterian/etc.) Church

By: Nicholas Anton

Nicholas Anton — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 01:13:02 +0000

What’s in a name?

What gives a church the right to claim to be The/part of The Catholic/Universal Church? The name? The doctrine? The human leadership? or The Founder, Jesus Christ?
I know of no church/denomination that conforms to the teachings of Jesus Christ as found in the Gospels.
Is it possibly the individual who truly believes in Jesus Christ in spite of the church?

By: o.h.

o.h. — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:35:00 +0000

My town features a St. Mary Baptist Church. I attend St. Mary Catholic, & when I run into a congregant from the Baptist St. Mary’s, we always find it mutually amusing.

By: Orthodox

Orthodox — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:21:50 +0000

Maybe it’s because Corinth was a Roman colony, and they are crypto Roman Catholics.

By: Zoomie

Zoomie — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 15:55:08 +0000

My favorite – over in western NC is Bat Cave Baptist Church. Who knew?

http://www.batcavebaptist.org/

Zoomie

By: Tom Jackson

Tom Jackson — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 14:09:21 +0000

Somewhere in the back woods near Hagerstown, Md., there’s a church called “Hades Church of the Brethren.”

I had always assumed that the name was an unfortunate reference to the local Hade family, one of whom I knew in high school, but a Google search just now turned up several churches of the same name, in several wide-spread places.

Could they have been referring to “He descended into Hades”?