can world-views. The Native Americans do not have one central ideal to follow, nor one God to praise. The covenant is the basic doctrine of Puritan experience. It is the notion that God makes people his own good people. There are three parts to the Puritan covenant. The first part is grace. This is the idea that few are chosen for salvation by God. The elected few live a life of faithful obedience to demonstrate that they are a member of the covenant of grace. The second part the covenant deals with the social aspect. This is when the Puritans agree to live according to principles of the bible in order to have God bless the community as a whole. The church is the third aspect of the covenant. This is when people agree that each of them is a Christian and they become a church community. They are not longer subject to any outside authority, and therefore only agree to follow the rules of God. These three parts make up the covenant, which is a staple on the Puritans beliefs. There is nothing even remotely similar in the Native American religion; therefore proving once again how different each groups world-views are from one another. There are two institutions of Puritan life. They are family and church. Families are the center of the community in Puritan life. They are known to create stability and loyalty in the town. A family in the view of the Puritans also helps to create cultural stability, which enables each generation of a family to pass down Puritan ideas, beliefs and ways of living to the following generation. The church is a predominant pillar in Puritan towns. It was known as a meeting house. It brought religion and politics together. It tried to bring religion and society together in and for the glory of God. This is the direct opposite of Native American ideas. In the Native American religion there is no specific place where it is important to worship, unlike the Puritans who base a large part of the worshipping at church. A m...
