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I think this guy is a bit much. For what he is saying is that his church is the one true church And of course isn't it a coincidence that his church is called the church of Christ....
I think this is a startling claim.... and of course you need to leave your church (a false church) and join his. Actually he answers the question quite nicely...he thinks his church is the one true church...yet, I go to a Baptist church and we believe we belong to the one true body.. Christ along with our other brothers and sisters all over...presbytterians, Lutherans et...
You see this guy has one great flaw .. his chart isn't exactly accurate and he weaves hand picked scripture and weaves it in and out of his chart.. while all the time your eye is fixated on the green line..which surprise surprise...is his church...amazing!
I think this is a startling claim.... and of course you need to leave your church (a false church) and join his. Actually he answers the question quite nicely...he thinks his church is the one true church...yet, I go to a Baptist church and we believe we belong to the one true body.. Christ along with our other brothers and sisters all over...presbytterians, Lutherans et...
You see this guy has one great flaw .. his chart isn't exactly accurate and he weaves hand picked scripture and weaves it in and out of his chart.. while all the time your eye is fixated on the green line..which surprise surprise...is his church...amazing!
One day Jesus is walking down the street and a group of people bring a blind man to Him, asking for healing. Jesus spits on the ground, makes a little mud, puts some in the blind man’s eyes, and tells his friends to take him down to the river and wash. They and the crowd do just that, and when the man washes he is healed.
So off this group goes, preaching ‘spit and washing’.
Another day, Jesus is again walking down the street when a blind man comes to him seeking healing. Jesus tells the man to go to the temple and pay his alms. The man and the crowd around them do, and he is healed.
So off this group goes, preaching ‘alms and giving’.
On still another occasion, a blind man is brought to Jesus wanting to be healed. Jesus asks the man if he believes He can do it, the man says yes, and he is healed.
So off this group goes, preaching ‘faith and belief’.
So now we have three ‘denominations' going at it, arguing over spit and faith and alms and such, totally losing sight of the point that there are many ways sight is restored by God. While Jesus stands off to the side asking ‘can’t we all just get along?’
It’s a jigsaw puzzle. No one has the whole picture, but we all have a piece of it. That's why it's important we accept and interact with one another in communities including this one.
So off this group goes, preaching ‘spit and washing’.
Another day, Jesus is again walking down the street when a blind man comes to him seeking healing. Jesus tells the man to go to the temple and pay his alms. The man and the crowd around them do, and he is healed.
So off this group goes, preaching ‘alms and giving’.
On still another occasion, a blind man is brought to Jesus wanting to be healed. Jesus asks the man if he believes He can do it, the man says yes, and he is healed.
So off this group goes, preaching ‘faith and belief’.
So now we have three ‘denominations' going at it, arguing over spit and faith and alms and such, totally losing sight of the point that there are many ways sight is restored by God. While Jesus stands off to the side asking ‘can’t we all just get along?’
It’s a jigsaw puzzle. No one has the whole picture, but we all have a piece of it. That's why it's important we accept and interact with one another in communities including this one.
B
So three people respond without a lick of knowledge or common sense when it comes to the Bible...I guess that's why all three of them made such ignorant comments...
The first quotes a scripture but doesn't finish the part where paul condemns them for their religious division....
The second tries to make assumptions and religious claims without ever backing up the idea that division in denominations is backed by the Bible...I would love to see where unity in division is ever taught?
The last guy acts like we have all been given pieces when he completely forgets that we have all been given the same Bible...and if I understand 1 tim. 3:16-17 correctly then it has everything we need...
So when you sum up all three of these responses I guess the question is answered...the reason there are so many churches is because of individuals like the ones above me which don't read and study their Bible to show themselves approved before God...they are like trees tossed too and fro but never rooted in God's word...If everyone would be grounded in the plain and simple word of God then maybe there wouldn't be so many divisions...but I guess asking to get back to the Bible is too much?!?!
The first quotes a scripture but doesn't finish the part where paul condemns them for their religious division....
The second tries to make assumptions and religious claims without ever backing up the idea that division in denominations is backed by the Bible...I would love to see where unity in division is ever taught?
The last guy acts like we have all been given pieces when he completely forgets that we have all been given the same Bible...and if I understand 1 tim. 3:16-17 correctly then it has everything we need...
So when you sum up all three of these responses I guess the question is answered...the reason there are so many churches is because of individuals like the ones above me which don't read and study their Bible to show themselves approved before God...they are like trees tossed too and fro but never rooted in God's word...If everyone would be grounded in the plain and simple word of God then maybe there wouldn't be so many divisions...but I guess asking to get back to the Bible is too much?!?!
The book of revelations mentions the seven churches oops I forget, I'm not sapose to take things out of context.
My brother belongs to the Church of Christ in Minneapolis, area in Minn. and when he would come to his root home here in WI he goes to another church called The Assembly of God (otherwise known as "Holy Rollers") because he claims it's the closest thing to his Church beliefs. Those rollers are quite the sight.
When I visit him and his family in Minn., I go to his church on Sunday and they pretty much believe the same things as the Pentecostal. Me, I'm brought up WELS Lutheran and this is the same Creed that the Roman Catholics have so all in all there appears to me one basic principal from God to us - from cover to cover in the what we have of his word.
We were made perfectly sinless and walked with God, we sinned, Christ suffered died and rose and now if we believe then we are once again walking with God and the perfection part is just a step away. I think this principal floats with the majority of christian denominations today. We are all in all in christ.
My brother belongs to the Church of Christ in Minneapolis, area in Minn. and when he would come to his root home here in WI he goes to another church called The Assembly of God (otherwise known as "Holy Rollers") because he claims it's the closest thing to his Church beliefs. Those rollers are quite the sight.
When I visit him and his family in Minn., I go to his church on Sunday and they pretty much believe the same things as the Pentecostal. Me, I'm brought up WELS Lutheran and this is the same Creed that the Roman Catholics have so all in all there appears to me one basic principal from God to us - from cover to cover in the what we have of his word.
We were made perfectly sinless and walked with God, we sinned, Christ suffered died and rose and now if we believe then we are once again walking with God and the perfection part is just a step away. I think this principal floats with the majority of christian denominations today. We are all in all in christ.
B
One thing unique about the church of Christ is that they are all independent of each other. So to find one that is similiar to Pentecostal beliefs and practices is possible but I have never heard of one. All the churches of Christ I ever see are the complete opposite of "Holy ROller" Pentecostal churches...
D
Wouldn't it be nice if it was still like this
Acts 4:32
"[SUP]32[/SUP] And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common."
Has anybody ever seen this in a group of four or more people? Even two or more people?
Acts 4:32
"[SUP]32[/SUP] And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common."
Has anybody ever seen this in a group of four or more people? Even two or more people?
W
only one Entity has it "all 100.00% completely correct"...
division results from non-negotiating claims of totality... people claiming they are completely correct, and others completely wrong
an attitude of "i finished homework question one, what did you get for question two" would be less divisive, acknowledging that some % truth exists, in the various opinions, and reconciling them all
division = hardline + no reconciliation
(and by non-compromising, i mean not compromising, and what "should" be compromisable... there are always those things, that cannot be compromised)
division results from non-negotiating claims of totality... people claiming they are completely correct, and others completely wrong
an attitude of "i finished homework question one, what did you get for question two" would be less divisive, acknowledging that some % truth exists, in the various opinions, and reconciling them all
division = hardline + no reconciliation
(and by non-compromising, i mean not compromising, and what "should" be compromisable... there are always those things, that cannot be compromised)
That's like asking why are there so many flavors of ice cream. Sorry. Seriously, it could be that each one of the churches gets a new understanding and so they set up a banner of that new understanding and fail to keep going further into truth. They have some truth and perhaps some things not quite scriptural. Fortunately, God looks at each individual and judges the heart of that individual. In the meantime, stay in the Word, study, study, study and obey and trust in the Father and His Son.
For the body is not one member, but many. If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. And if they were all one member, where were the body? But now are they many members, yet but one body. And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary: And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked: That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it. Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
(1Co 12:14-27)
The various churches are like various members of the One Body which ideally should...
From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
(Eph 4:16)
Different Churches is fine until...
And not holding to the Head (Christ), from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
(Col 2:19)
(1Co 12:14-27)
The various churches are like various members of the One Body which ideally should...
From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
(Eph 4:16)
Different Churches is fine until...
And not holding to the Head (Christ), from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
(Col 2:19)
and some say ''I" am of Christ, which doesn't solve the matter either...
Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.
(1Co 1:12)
The true attitude would be... though we are gifted differently and are at different levels of understanding, ''WE are of Christ''.
Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.
(1Co 1:12)
The true attitude would be... though we are gifted differently and are at different levels of understanding, ''WE are of Christ''.
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