{"id":8465,"date":"2019-01-05T12:54:55","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T16:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=8465"},"modified":"2019-01-05T12:59:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T16:59:50","slug":"exploring-churches-in-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=8465","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Churches in New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While still going to MeRF in Time Square, I have to check out the body of Christ in NJ since we've moved to South Amboy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus far I've visited 2: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"New Durham Chapel  (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/newdurhamchapel.org\" target=\"_blank\">New Durham Chapel <\/a>(225 New Durham Rd, Piscataway Township, NJ 08854) &amp; <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Mt. Carmel Orthdox Presbyterian Church (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:.\/\/mtcarmelopc.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mt. Carmel Orthdox Presbyterian Church<\/a> (350 Franklin Blvd, Somerset, NJ 08873).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though Mt. Carmel is listed under the OPC denomination, I'm not sure how closely it is practicing OPC's tenets. It's like a black church with a white pastor, with evangelical sermons leaning towards black\/charismatic slightly. It is definitely unique in some sense, since this is an OPC and not a Baptist church which is a common black church custom. Traditional hymns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for New Durham, we went with Willy's friend Grace. Supposedly the church she goes to. I said supposedly because it appears that no one there knew her. Leaning towards Charismatic. Modern hymns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The folks from either churches are very friendly and welcoming, that's for sure. They definitely follow the fundamental evangelical practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next two churches I plan to visit will be RCCC (the famed Rutgers Chinese Mega church in NJ) and Ferry's church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While still going to MeRF in Time Square, I have to check out the body of Christ in NJ since we've moved to South Amboy. Thus far I've visited 2: New Durham Chapel (225 New Durham Rd, Piscataway Township, NJ &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=8465\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflection","category-theologization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8468,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8465\/revisions\/8468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}