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Many churches and different denominations exist in the world today. These include Reformed, Baptist, Pentecostal, Roman Catholic, non-denominational, and many others. This is a massive change in the church world that started around 500 years ago. Prior to the Protestant Reformation only a few separa
The Methodists, Adventists, Unitarians, Mormons, Baptists, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Pentecostals, Reformed, Roman Catholics and others all claim that they are the Church, and they all claim that the command of Christ. “Follow me” can be fulfilled in their respective organization. In addi
Many denominations there are who not only exist but claim the right of separate existence. A right, by the way, that is only justifiable when there is sufficient difference to warrant such. Into this mammoth subject we will not enter. Suffice it to say that many denominations in the church world is
There is however, more to the church than that. All through history there have been numbers of such congregations joined together in some expression of unity. That was true of the seven churches in Asia Minor and in the early church. They gathered together for example in a general meeting at Jerusal
were a church and have exercised more power and authority than was rightly theirs. The New Testament knows of only two "churches": the universal church of all ages, comprised of all the elect; and the church local. Christ has given the ministry, the keys of His kingdom, the sacraments and the author
One who is ambivalent about what Scripture teaches and neglects to walk according to the Christian life described therein cannot honestly claim to possess true faith or to be a member of the invisible church (Matt. 7:15–20). Similarly, denominations that have cast off any attempt to faithfully honor
When such is the case within denominations, they have ceased to serve their purpose. When one denomination can encompass vast and fundamental differences concerning the truth, there is no more any basic reason why any or all denominations can not be united with this one denomination (except, possibl
Within this vast conglomeration of churches if sound the Protestant Reformed Churches, a denomination which totals 19 congregations, 663 families, 2,906 members—if baptized members are included. This is little more than a spot on the ecclesiastical map. The question inevitably arises: What justifica
There were three main branches of the churches of the Reformation, the churches that repudiated and separated from Rome. There were, first, the Anabaptist churches. The Anabaptist movement is sometimes referred to as the “Radical Reformation.” The Anabaptists are the ancestors of the modern-day Bap