Kenneth Copeland Ministries (Eagle Mountain International Church) 'heard God' declare that 2021 was 'the Year of the Local Church'; but there was not a single photograph of an Oklahoma Church!
I suppose that 'local' means "wherever you happen to be" and not "where you originally lived"---like Kenneth Copeland's a church in Brother Kenneth's hometown (Lubbock, Texas), or Oral Roberts University (Tulsa, Oklahoma, where the seed first took root).
My post about 'their "Year of the local church"' is linked through 'the main word' below. Here, I list a few 'root-words' that tie that word into our lexicon....
The word “Church” is built on ancient words that mean Strong, Powerful ( |Swollen-->(House of the) Lord, Ruler). #ChurchBell #Churching #Churched #ChurchGoer #ChurchKey #ChurchMouse #Churchman #Churchyard #Unchurched #Churches
The Search for My Local Church
I wanted to find 'churches across Oklahoma' (the search linked through the picture), but first searched for 'local Oklahoma churches' (which--since Bing thinks that means I'm searching for churches 'near me'--only brought up Oklahoma City churches).
I went ahead and 'explored' the various results it gave:
- Yellow Pages' Local Churches in Central OKC
- Church in Oklahoma City | The Local Churches
- Town of Buffalo, Oklahoma - Local Churches
- Category:Churches in Oklahoma - Wikipedia
- Churches in Shawnee Oklahoma - ChurchFinder.com
- Oklahoma City Oklahoma Churches (churches-in.com)
- Home > Oklahoma Baptists
- Church Directory - Owasso, Oklahoma
And then 'churches from Kenneth Copeland's hometown' (to make up for the brief time I spent claiming Copeland's hometown was in 'Oklahoma' rather than Lubbock, Texas)
- Microsoft Bing's list of Lubbock, Texas churches (although I don't know how many of these were open back when Kenneth lived there)
And some of the churches that I've attended:
- Churches in Durant, Oklahoma (not knowing how many of these were around back when I lived there)
- - in Enid, Oklahoma (not knowing how many of these were around back when I lived there)
- in Oklahoma City (the only churches I can specifically remember, tho I'm told I was baptized at St. Charles Borromeo, which is where we congregated when we moved back to OKC)
- Epiphany of the Lord
- my paternal grandparents went to Metropolitan Baptist Church (where my siblings & I went to Awana meetings & 'Summer Camp' (not really a "camp"--not in the 'roughing-it in nature'-sense nor the 'retreat with colleagues'-sense--but just 'an hour or so of watching videos & playing in the gym with fellow Christian youths)
- And when I moved out, I was going to a university founded by the Methodist Church of Christianity, so I went to the Wesley United Methodist Church near the school, to a few House Churches fellow students would hold around the neighborhood (culminating (for me) in 'another Mars Hill church'), and some wandering around led me to Gospel Celebration Fellowship (a "non-denominational" Sabbatarian church, with a big focus on prison-ministry (most of its leaders being ex-convicts))
- When I realized that school was not my path, I moved to a different 'locality' of Oklahoma City (sure, it's all the same 'locality' if you can drive & have a car; but I only walk). There, I went to Bethany First Church of the Nazarene (where I found out a few of my early teachers had gone and were continuing to go), and I also went to an Evangelical Covenant Church (I forget the name, that branch-of-the-ECC having closed)
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