HOW OLD IS YOUR CHURCH?

 

HOW OLD IS YOUR CHURCH?

If you are Lutheran, your religion was founded by Martin Luther, a former monk of the Catholic Church, in 1517

If you belong to the Church of England, your religion was founded by King Henry VIII in the year 1534 because the Pope would not grant him a divorce with the right to remarry.

If you are a Presbyterian, your religion was founded by John Knox in Scotland in the year 1560.

If you are a Congregationalist, your religion was originated by Robert  Brown in Holland in 1582.

If you are a Baptist, you owe the tenets of your religion to John Smyth, who launched it in Holland in 1582.

If you are of the Dutch Reformed Church, you recognize Michaelis Jones as the founder because he originated your religion in New York in 1628.

If you are a Protestant Episcopalian, your religion was an offshoot of the Church of England and was founded by Samuel Seabury in the American colonies in the late 1600s.

If you are a Methodist, your religion was started by John and Charles Wesley in England in 1744.

If you are a Unitarian, Theophilus Lindley founded your church in London in 1774.

If you are a Mormon, the Church of the Latter Day Saints, Joseph Smith started your religion in Palmyra, NY, in 1829.

If you worship with the Salvation Army, your sect began with William Booth in London in 1865.

If you are a Christian Scientist, you look to 1879 as the year in which your religion was born and to Mary Baker Eddy as its founder.

If you belong to one of the religious organizations known as the Church of the Nazarene, Pentecostal, Gospel, Holiness Church, Pilgrim Holiness Church, or Jehovah's Witnesses, your religion is one of the hundreds of new sects founded by men within the past one hundred years.

If you are ROMAN CATHOLIC, you know that your religion was founded in the YEAR 33 by Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and it is still the same one, holy, catholic, apostolic Roman Catholic Church.

O God, I humbly beseech You to teach me Your true religion that leads me to everlasting happiness through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord. Amen.