christianity practices

• reconciliation


  making up and reuniting after division
• persecution


  persistently cruel treatment often due to religion or belief
• pluralist society


  where several different religions and people of no faith co-exist
• mission


  christianity bearing witness to faith in the wider community
• agnostic


  unsure whether there is a God or not
• atheist


  believing that there is no God
• ecumenical


  representing or promoting unity within different christian churched
• pilgrimage


  a journey to holy/sacred place as an act of religious devotion
• nativity


  accounts of Jesus' birth in Luke and Matthew's Gospels
• Lay person


  someone who is not an ordained member of the clergy
• baptism


  a ceremony using water to show someone's commitment to the Christian faith
• rite


  a ritual or series of ritual practices which often have symbolic meaning
• prayer


  a means of communicating with God
• denomination


  groups within the Christian Church (eg. roman catholic, baptist)
• liturgical worship


  following a set structure and words in a Church service
• evangelism


  preaching the Gospel to others with the aim of converting others to the Christian faith
• sacraments


  outward signs of an invisible and inward blessing by God, for example baptism and Eucharist
• informal worship


  more spontaneous, varied and open styles of worship
• individual worship


  where people worship God by themselves to develop their personal relationship with Him
• extemporaneous prayer


  not planned, prayer that is spontaneous