Lecture 9/30/2009

In class on Wednesday we discussed more in depth about the class assignments. Then we split up into groups of 4 and each shared about our church backgrounds - from early on in our faith up until our present affiliation. I was especially surprised by the fact that several of us had similar stories; grew up in traditional church backgrounds like Presbyterian and Lutheran and through a series of life transitions were exposed to charismatic, even Pentecostal church backgrounds. It seems to me that the generations before us - starting with my parents age, it was more common for them to grow up and stick with the same denomination their whole lives whereas the proceeding generations (myself included) have been exposed to been committed at one point or another to the spectrum of christian denominations.