At church and in their everyday lives, American Christians continually fuse together the ideas and practices they encounter in the mass media, in their community, in their church, and in their personal experiences of God. My dissertation is based on three years of intensive ethnographic engagement with the members of Mt. Pisgah Chapel, an independent Pentecostal church. I argue that, rather than simply deriving their individual religious identities from their faith community, religious people like the members of Mt. Pisgah constantly negotiate the relationship between individual and communal religious identities, and both are continually changing as they reshape one another in dynamic relationship. To explore these negotiations, I examine three sites of religious practice at Mt. Pisgah: a pre-membership class series, music in the church community, and a Halloween drama ministry. My ethnography incorporates not only frill participation m the life and practices of this community, but also interpretive collaboration with its members - including their accounts of God’s agency in shaping their religious lives. Through dialogue both with anthropological theories of identity and practice and with believers’ own interpretations of their religious lives and selves, this project challenges and elaborates existing theories of everyday religious practice.