What is your model of the church?
You scored as Sacrament model. Your model of the church is Sacrament. The church is the effective sign of the revelation that is the person of Jesus Christ. Christians are transformed by Christ and then become a beacon of Christ wherever they go. This model has a remarkable capacity for integrating other models of the church.
| Sacrament model | 89% | |
| English | 83% | |
| Herald model | 72% | |
| Mystical Communion model | 72% | |
| Servant model | 56% | |
| Institutional model | 28% |
What is your model of the church?
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Naturally, internet quizzes are seldom scientific, particularly QuizFarm quizzes. This one was less scientific in that it used typical hymns that people would sing in your church as one of its ways of gauging your model. My church really doesn’t sing hymns. Occasionally someone might drop “Be Thou My Vision” or “Alas and Did My Savior Bleed” into the mix, but most of the songs are worship choruses, and I really don’t remember too many of the hymns from my childhood because our worship leaders often stuck to their own Top 40 list. So the reason I didn’t score higher is because I disregarded the hymn questions.
I do believe one of the main reasons for church is the sacraments. They can’t be done alone. You need other Christians to baptize you, share communion, disciple, confess to, witness a marriage, or pray with. I don’t limit the number of sacraments to two or seven; anything mystical and allegorical and involving God is a sacrament. And most sacraments require other people. Therefore we have the church.
I don’t believe, contrary to the Catholics, that the church is the person of Christ. Jesus is the person of Christ. The church may be his body, but he is the head… and sometimes the body acts as if it belongs to a paraplegic. It doesn’t always do what he wants it to. It will someday, but to say the church behaves exactly as Jesus wants it to is to disregard or misrepresent centuries of killing, stealing, and destroying when evil men took power within it. The church can and must become better, and it will if Christians will spend more time serving in it and less time ripping at it.
As to the other models, I agree with them somewhat, of course. Not so much the institutional model. Government is a necessary evil, and that’s even true of church governments. We’re all supposed to be answering to God, and if we did that, we’d actually love one another, support one another, and submit to one another… instead of the usual knee-jerk attitude of “Who are you to tell me what to do?” that we so often see in Americans.