{"id":135,"date":"2014-08-02T21:51:07","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T02:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slovakzionsynod.org\/sip\/?p=135"},"modified":"2016-03-16T13:39:33","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T18:39:33","slug":"differences-of-american-church-in-10-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/slovakzionsynod.org\/sip\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"Differences of American church in 10 points"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lutheran church in America has some differences compering to Slovak evangelical church. Now you can read some facts about Lutheran churches in America and Slovakia.<\/p>\n

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  1. \u00a0At first I was surprised, that everyone had to sign in. In America you have to register and take a X<\/strong>, to say either\u00a0you will take communion or not<\/strong>. In Slovakia we don\u2019t do this it would be too much work.<\/li>\n
  2. \u00a0My pastor Matt Poock doesn\u2019t sing<\/strong> during the worship liturgy, everything is said with words. In Slovakia pastors sing a lot, special liturgy and I know in Germany they use to sing too. Doesn\u2019t matter because \u00a0my pastor Matt sings always one song for everyone with her wife Becca.<\/li>\n
  3. \u00a0Communion in USA can be served not only by pastor,<\/strong> he can call some helpers, volunteers from church members. In Slovakia unthought-of, communion is only in hand of pastor. \u00a0USA communion is served in the small cups, in Slovakia in the big once, but I think that this trend come to us soon.<\/li>\n
  4. \u00a0Volunteer read the bible text and prayers, almost same<\/strong>. In USA every time somebody read, in Slovakia it is up to pastor. By Easter or Christmas Eve, Slovak pastors have more volunteers, because these are big holidays.<\/li>\n
  5. Casual clothes<\/strong> for pastor during the worship in the park? In Slovakia it would be faux pas<\/strong> (f\u00f3-pa). Church in Slovakia is conservative and not liberal as in America.<\/li>\n
  6. \u00a0Children in the worship with adults<\/strong>, in America YES<\/strong>, in Slovakia NO<\/strong>. Slovak children have separately worship with volunteers -full of bible stories and games.<\/li>\n
  7. Creed- at my first worship in Evansville park. I asked and realized, that Americans say:,,I believe in the holy Catholic church<\/strong>\u201d \u2013 which means universal. In Slovakia it would be like catholic church-religion, so we just say catholic <\/span>church<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  8. \u00a0Roll play in the church is in USA okey.<\/strong> Today I played Ruth, it was such a great time. I am foreigner like Ruth so my accent doesn\u2019t bother anyone. Another thing, I like pictures presentation. For example in \u00a0Bratislava church we use picture presentation only one time per three months because the\u00a0seniors don\u2019t like it. In Evansville church they used to present pictures every Saturday and Sunday by worship<\/strong>. I hope that this trend come to Bratislava soon.<\/li>\n
  9. \u00a0Eternal<\/strong>-neverending light in the church and candel assistants<\/strong>, these both things you can\u2019t see in the Lutheran church in Slovakia. These customs are only in Catholic Church. Here in Evansville Lutherans do these customs too, interesting.<\/li>\n
  10. \u00a0Air condition in the church is such a big luxury.<\/strong> I expected that in a small town, people don\u2019t have everything, but it was BIG mistake ! Here in Evansville they have almost everything -swimming pool , golf areal, lot of parks\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    After my three weeks, these are the differences between Slovak Lutheran church and American lutheran church. In Evansville in st. John\u2019s church are the activities more modern. I realized that pastor Matt lead the church in liberal way. I hope, that Slovak Lutheran church will take some customs from America.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    PS:<\/strong> Maybe I can help to build the bridge between church and social work, teach how to do church activities more attractive for everyone. So we could have more church members in Slovakia.<\/p>\n

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    Lutheran church in America has some differences compering to Slovak evangelical church. Now you can read some facts about Lutheran churches in America and Slovakia. \u00a0At first I was surprised, that everyone had to sign in. In America you have to register and take a X, to say either\u00a0you will take communion or not. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americantime","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/slovakzionsynod.org\/sip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/slovakzionsynod.org\/sip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/slovakzionsynod.org\/sip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/slovakzionsynod.org\/sip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/slovakzionsynod.org\/sip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/slovakzionsynod.org\/sip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"http:\/\/slovakzionsynod.org\/sip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/slovakzionsynod.org\/sip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/slovakzionsynod.org\/sip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/slovakzionsynod.org\/sip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}