Narrative Report

PROTESTANTS Group ABF 2-1
Written Report
 Questions that were asked to the specific religions that were assigned to us:
1. Discuss their organizational structure.
2. How they view the Higher Being?
3. Who is their prominent Higher Being? Discuss how this person claimed to be a Higher
Being?
4. How they view afterlife and salvation?
5. What are their practices, rituals and beliefs?
6. How other individual can be part of their organization?
7. Can a member leave his or her current organization? What is the process if a member
decided to join other organization? What are the consequences that the person will
encounter?
 Born Again Christian ;

1. God, Head Pastor, Missionary Pastor, Outreach Pastor, Elders and Deacons
2. Deity - we belive there is only one true, living and enternal God, who ia the creator of
all things, who exist in three distinct divine poems, namely the father, the son, and the
holy spirit, who has same same nature, attributes and perfection ang who is worthy of
equal homage, confidence, and obedience. (Gen 1:26, Deut 6:4, Matt 28:19, john 14:16-
17, 2 cor 13:14, 1 tim 3:16, 1 pet 1:2, 1 jn 5:7)
*Father. We believe that God the Father, the first person of the trinity, orders and
deposes all things according to His own purpose and grace (Ps 145:8-9, 1 Cor. 8:6). He is
the Creator of all things (Gen. 1:1-31, Eph. 3:9)
*Jesus Christ. We believe in essential deity and virgin birth of our Lord Jesus Christ; that
He was begotten by the Holy Spirit; not having a human father and is true God and true
man. He is the only hope of salvation from sin, and the only mediator between God and
man. (Isa 7:14, Lk 1:35, Jn 1:1-14, Jn 14:6, 1 Tim 2:5-6)
*Holy Spirit. We believe the Holy Spirit to be co-equal with the Father ang the Son. He is
a person. He has come to fulfill Christ's promise. He baptize, convicts, regenerates,
indwells, seals, fills, empowers, and guides the believers to live a victorious Christian life.
(Jn 3:3-8, Jn 16:7-13, Acts 1:8, 1 Cor 6:19, Eph 1:13-14, Eph 5:18, 1Jn 5:7)
3. My answer to no. 3 is the role of the Father..
4.Answer to Afterlife:
We as the body of Christ believed and teach that life after death are based on the
resurrection of Jesus Christ. We believe that Jesus’ death and resurrection are part of
God’s divine plan for humankind. (John 11:25-26)
Through his death on the cross, Jesus pays the penalty for mankind's sin and mankind's
relationship with God is restored. (John 3:16) This is called salvific way/ atonement.
We, as Christians believe that three days after the crucifixion, God raised Jesus from the
dead and he once again appeared to his disciples. This is taken to mean that Jesus’
sacrifice was a victory over sin and death. Although physical death still happens, those
who believe in Christ and live good lives will be given eternal life in Heaven.
Many Christians believe that after death, they will be taken into the presence of God
and they will be judged for the deeds they have done or failed to do during their
lifetime.
5.
6. Before an individual person becomes a member of our church, he/she will go first for
an interview. We want to know their background regarding spiritual aspects and what
leads them to come into our church.
And after that, we will tell them about what we believe and teach on our church.
Then goes a discipleship training with our pastor for just a month.
And if we truly saw their consistency and passion to worship and serve the Lord, we will
give them our membership profile for them to fill it up and we welcome them in front of
our members that these people or these individual is part of our church organization.
7. First of all, we don't have any power to hinder them to go to the other church. But
it's a sad story if a member leaves his/her own church.
But as a pastor of this church,
I would like to know and find out why he/she is leaving the church.
- if he/she is commiting a sin
- if he /she is having a bad relationship to other members or to pastor also.
- if he/she is not agree to our teaching and beliefs
-if he/she doesn't like our church.
-if he/she has a big problem
Before I'll take a move, i need to find out first why he/she is leaving. My action to that
question is depending on a situation.
If a member is doing and commiting a sin, we will take our step by step action on how to
rebuke him/her on what they are doing.
We will a biblical kind of restoring a person or biblical church discipline and you will find
it out in Matthew 18:15-20
Matt. 18:15
This is our prescription to church discipline. The goal of this process is restoration. If
successful, “you have gained your brother.”
Step one is to “tell him his fault” privately.
If he does not listen, or if he remains impenitent, follow step two: “take one or two
others along with you,” to fulfill the principle of Deut. 19:15.
And if he refuses to do so..
Follow Step three: tell it to the church. If he still refuses to repent, step three requires
that the matter be reported to the whole assembly (v. 17)—so that all may lovingly
pursue the sinning brother’s reconciliation. But failing that again,
You need to follow: step four means that the offender must be excommunicated,
regarded by the church as “a Gentile and a tax collector” or consider him/her as an
unbeliever.
The idea is not merely to punish the offender, or to shun him completely, but to remove
him as a detrimental influence from the fellowship of the church, and henceforth to
regard him as an evangelistic prospect rather than as a brother. Ultimately, the sin for
which he is excommunicated is a hardhearted impenitence. But because we are
commanded to continue love them, after that confrontation, we will try to reach them
out again as part of our restoration. But if he/she refuses again, he/she will never be a
part of our organization. He/she will decide to go to other churches if they want to.
 Ang Dating Daan;

1. Because of Bro. Perez, an ex-minister of Iglesia ni Cristo. Bro. Perez, organized the
organization due to the wrong belief of his former religion.
2. We view the Highest Being as GOD who made everything. The almighty.
3. It is God. God is claimed to be the Highest Being because he made everything with His
voice.
4. Salvation is for those who are people of God. Salavation is the only way we can be
with God.
5. What we practices, rituals, and belief are all according to Bible . On how we worship,
we praise according to the Bible.
6. They must undergo in Mass Indoctrination which they will teach the laws, practices,
how they will praise God.
7. In our organization called ANG DATING DAAN, we have many ways to make people
left in organization. For example, if they committed a serious sin which is really
prohibited in the Bible. They must undergo in investigation which will decide if they
guilty or not. But if the person who is willingly to leave that will be okay.
 Apostolic Pentecostal;
1. Discuss their organizational structure.
✓ United Pentecostal Church (UPC) is a one-God apostolic doctrine believers’
organization. The organization believes that there is no one higher than the Lord Jesus
Christ. As Philippine law requires that such group of people be organized, UPC is
henceforth formed. Officials of the organization are voted merely for leadership. They
are not in any way being worshipped. There is a pastor who leads for every local church.
Ephesians 4:11 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some
evangelists, and some pastors and teachers
2. How they view the Higher Being?
✓ The Lord whose name is Jesus Christ is our Saviour, the King of kings, Healer,
Provider, Protector, the Alpha and Omega, Creator
3. Who is their prominent Higher Being? Discuss how this person claimed to be a Higher
Being?
✓Jesus Christ
John 14:23 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is
above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and
on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the
glory of God the Father.
Revelation 22:13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and
the end.
4. How they view afterlife and salvation?

✓Acts 2:38 . Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in
the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the
Holy Ghost. (Salvation)
✓Acts 4: 12. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under
heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
-There's none written in the bible about afterlife, only ETERNAL LIFE (John 3:16 For God
so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall
not perish but have ETERNAL LIFE)
5.What are their practices, rituals and beliefs?
✓John 4: 24. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in
truth.
6. How other individual can be part of their organization?
✓we encourage people to be part of God's kingdom by living a holy life in accordance to
the Word of God (Holy Bible) and not by merely being affiliated to our organization
7. Can a member leave his or her current organization? What is the process if a member
decided to join other organization? What are the consequences that the person will
encounter?
Yes, it is a person’s discretion whether he/ she stays affiliated with the organization.
Person may just walk away from church—no any formal process needed.
Leaving the organization makes no consequence to the person at all. Salvation is
through one’s relationship with God—not by being affiliated with any organization, not
even with UPC. There is no any formality needed to be complied with. First time visitors
are encouraged to fill out forms just for welcoming and praying for them during church
service and for church record. Should they opt not to fill out forms, the same would be
respected.

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 Born Again Christian ;

 Ang Dating Daan;

4. How they view afterlife and salvation?

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