Hello everyone,
my name is Kai and i`m from Germany, so i hope you will forgive me possible mistakes while i`m using English.
Usually we are just learning a more formal version in school, compared to the american styles ^^
Anyway.
Maybe you would like to know a little about me and why i registered at your forum.
Currently i`m studying evangelical theology at the University of Hamburg, my dream is to become a christian minister. Not necessary one of the evangelical major churches in Germany, i`ve got a few reasons for being sceptical towards their theology and way of dealing with modern status of christianity in Germany...
Well, i started with studying to become a teacher at first, for the subjects German and Religion, but later i felt something like a "call" to deal only with religious things (i hope that does not sounds funny or crazy, with "call"... ^^ ).
I`m feeling literally that it is right for me to live with god, explore his and follow his will and teach and preach to believe in god and i`m very happy with that.
The reason i registered at this forum is that in march of the current year i had my first "bigger exam" at university and the topic i chose for my exam was the history of the baptists.
More the general history, not every detail, for there was only quiet limited time in our lecture in the summer term.
I already knew a few things about baptism (i hope that is the correct term for the "whole" denomination, i know there`s no big church for all like the catholic church), because last year i visited Sweden and learned a lot about different christian denominations.
And while preparing myself for my exam and dealing with the history of baptism and baptist theology i developed the feeling of great positive sympathy to the values one consider as "baptist".
Also i feel very appealed to the baptist approach to the bible and god.
Yeah and so finally i registered at these forum and i hope i will learn more about your denomination(s), for i already learned that especially in USA the baptist denomination developed and spread out to the whole world and is very vivid.
I`m happy to read interesting explanations about these approach and personal approaches to bible and god by you.
Also of course you can ask me how i believe in god and what my opinions are to different topic
All the best,
Kai