Part A comments on Blog

My comment is on Nick L.Barrow's Blog. Nick went to a protestant church called River City Church which is an ACC church.

Both churches are both friendly and are willing to go out of their way to help people and see if they have a problem instead of the person asking the church for help. The churches are run pretty much the same way.

In Nick’s blog he states that the church he attended the music was not usually Pentecostal-type music. It is more solemn, but still along the same lines of how ACC congregates worship. While the church I attended was more active songs were a lot of people get into it and jump around and very little worship songs but there are still a few, so the church that nick attended was more spiritual then the one I attended.

Both churches seem to have the same beliefs that God is the one and only God and he sent his son to save us and take our sins away and that the bible teaches everyone the way to live and to set examples for others by living for God.

Nick explains in his blog about how River City Church teaches a lot about focusing on doing the good deeds that the Bible teaches people to do this was showed in a sermon that Rod Pietila preached it was about being the leader and overcoming all odds with the power of Christ and that story lead into the sermon about having the courage to step up and do God’s will in the community.

Both churches are very similar and the teachings are very much alike and both churches are churches that give more than taking and that this size might be different but the big picture is the same, and that is to spread the word of the gospel and to tell as many people about God as possible and show people how good God has been a huge effect to them in their live.

To read Nick's Blog go to:
http://nicklbarrow.blogspot.com/

PART B (refrences)
http://www.urbex.50megs.com/Places/Brisbane/Churches/Holland_Park_West_St_Joachims_Catholic_Church_Full.jpg

http://bne.catholic.net.au/asp/index.asp?pgid=11560

PART A (refrences)
-http://www.citychurch.com.au/
-http://www.architecture.com.au/awards_search?option=showaward&entryno=2008048104
-http://www.citipointe.com.au/
-http://www.aog.org.au/AboutUs/OurHistory/tabid/117/language/en-AU/Default.aspx

Part B

The Catholic Church I visited was St. Joachim's church,
(http://bne.catholic.net.au/asp/index.asp?pgid=11560)
the person who runs the church was Senior Kari Hatherell, and the Catholic Church was built on the 12th of February 1961.

Here is a picture of St. Joachim's church.

(http://www.urbex.50megs.com/Places/Brisbane/Churches/Holland_Park_West_St_Joachims_Catholic_Church_Full.jpg)

The catholic church believe in God but they believe that God has passed his authority and power down to his disciples or followers and some of the followers in now times would be people like Priests, monks, Popes so catholic people put their faith in them and God. The service in the church St. Joachim's was a very different experience from the protestant church.
The music in the Catholic Church was very plain; it was just a piano playing and 3 women singing from a book with the rest of the church. While at Brisbane City Church it was very active and different and fast then they had a few slow songs which still were very good and not normal.
At the Catholic Church every time you walk in front of the big crucifix you have to bow before you move on, at the protestant church you don't have to bow to anything you can sit or stand.
The clothes that the Priest in the catholic church wore was the same as back in the middle ages in Europe, while in the protestant church the Pastor wore very casual clothes that were up to date.
the Priest in the catholic church was telling everyone they had to repent and that not repenting was very bad and you are hiding your sins and they had a confessional box, but at the protestant church the pastor says "if you would like to ask God to forgive your sins it is as easy as just asking or you could ask me if you would like me to pray with you."
The Catholic Church finds that wearing hats or anything that makes you stand out is disrespectful but at the protestant church you can wear anything and it will not be disrespectful.
The Catholic Church was very monotone, because when the priest would start a prayer which he did a lot the rest of the church would join in but everyone would sound the same and when they sung it was all the same levels of singing no variety. While in the Protestant church anyone can sing at whatever level they want or not sing at all and if someone prays a lot of the time it is not a prayer in a book it is their own words.
The Catholic Church service was not run as well as the protestant church was and the Catholic Church expected the church to join the prayers when the priest started to pray, there was also very little humor so it was very serious and there was no Church involvement besides the songs and the prayers and some volunteers for the offering.
The Protestant service was run excellent and involved the church in everything they could and made the songs fun for everyone and had more than one instrument to play music and when they pastor or the guest speaker is talking they involve the whole audience sometimes by doing tests or talking to individuals.

Part A

The two churchs i visted were.
Citipointe youth church Brisbane (http://www.citipointe.com.au/)
and Brisbane city chruch (http://www.citychurch.com.au/)

Citipointe youth church was started in 1974(http://www.aog.org.au/AboutUs/OurHistory/tabid/117/language/en-AU/Default.aspx)
It is a church that is run by Sam Gunser the service was run very good and had a lot of people that were nice there and people that greeted you inside, but the music was very loud and if you were trying to concentrate it was a very bad place to concentrate. One song was a fast jumping around song but the rest of the songs were very slow they all were talking about God and how he saved us and gave up everything so we could be free.
The sermon was mainly about how giving and tithing is good and having faith in God to make your prayers come true and that he will help you.
I thought the whole service was to much about the music and not enough about God and the Sermon they needed more time to tell people about God instead of singing so much, they could have made the service much better by doing this.

This is a newsletter from Citipointe Youth Church.

Brisbane City Church is a church that is run by Wayne Alcorne The service was very good and the people who worked there were very nice and welcomed you in and talked to you and made sure you found a seat and helped any way possible they had a lot of loud music too and the same genres as the other church but the sermon was about a clean start and washing our sins away the preacher used this in a good example and that was, how God gave up his son to save the world and how he died to set all of us free and to wash our sins away and a new clean start.
I thought that Brisbane City church was very good and that the people there were very nice and the sermon was longer then the music and they told people about what God did in song and preaching, people gave there lives to God and got their sins washed away.
Both of the churches be live that:
God sent his one and only son to save us and wash our sins aways and that one day Jesus will come back down to Earth and save all the Christians and take them back up to heaven to live with him and that his father is God and that there is no other like him.

Here is a picture of Brisbane city church.

(http://www.architecture.com.au/awards_search?option=showaward&entryno=2008048104)