Response to Zoe Larwill’s Creek Road Presbyterian Blog

This blog was interesting and contained very useful information. I thought that it was very interesting that she stated how many times a year Creek Road Presbyterian Church and more traditional Presbyterian Churches have communion. When I visited the church, I noticed that they did not have communion, but I would not have thought that they had communion so few times throughout the year. It was also helpful how she explained about Pastor Phil Strong, who I also spoke with, reading John Calvin’s works and about how he believes that some of his works are correct while others are incorrect. She also stated that Creek Road Presbyterian Church believes in the bible first and then in the writings of John Calvin. Her quote from Pastor Phil’s showed good evidence for her observation. He stated that “sometimes Calvin is misunderstood and sometimes Calvin was wrong just like Church Pastors can be, but God is always right”. This is very effective because it emphasises what Pastor Phil believes, he also said this to me, but she was able to recognise the importance of this statement. She then went on to explain that Presbyterians are followers of Jesus Christ, not John Calvin, which I think is an important difference. One point that Zoe stated was that the Presbyterians believe that if you belong to God, you will go to heaven and if not you will go to hell. This is not necessarily true because we all belong to God, but it is determined by whether or not we have chosen to put our trust in Him and have accepted Him into our lives. When talking about liturgy, she stated that the sermon was not based on a topic with scriptures that supported it, but that it was based on a certain passage of the bible and scenarios were based on that passage. I noticed this too, which is interesting because that means that this point is something that she does not find in her own church, as I have found. Overall, Zoe’s blog is excellent, it is filled with interesting facts about Presbyterian theology and I agree with a lot of the points that she found when she attended Creek Road Presbyterian Church.