OK! So God doesn’t want Division. Jesus didn’t establish any Denominations. And Paul condemned any Christian that would have any part in one…

Since that New Testament church in the Bible, that is, the fellowship comprised of the churches in the Bible (Corinth, Ephesus, Colosse, Rome, etc.) are long gone and lost, today in the 21st Century, aren’t we all, even so-call Non-denominational churches, a little denominational?

This is a good and fair question. The question can be adequately answered by both concept and parable. First, the concept.

When a farmer sows seed, he always gets a crop based upon the type of seed that he sowed. White corn seed will only produce white corn unless he adds another type of corn seed to the batch. The same is true of Christianity. What made the Christians at Corinth, Ephesus, Colosse, Rome, etc. what they were? Upon what did they unite? The word of God. If a person will divest himself of every religious name, practice, and belief that is not in the Bible, every religious denomination would end right then and there!

Some might say that the churches of Christ attempted to solve the problem of denominationalism by starting another splinter group denouncing splintering. You cannot be true to the Biblical pattern of unity in the Body of Christ and join a denomination, so the answer was not to join the crowd. Let me illustrate the solution.

    1. Imagine that God allowed the apostle Peter to come alive and preach one more gospel message to us, and that 500 people believed in Jesus and asked what to do, and Peter replied as he did before, "Repent, and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins," and all 500 who believed were baptized and they were now members of the Body of Christ, just like it happened in Acts 2.

    2. Imagine that 4 groups of 100 converts decide to break up and join different denominations in the area, now calling themselves by different names with different religious affiliations, but the final group of 100 decide that they will not participate in denominationalism by becoming partners in them, and they decide to look at how the church under the apostles was organized, how it worked, and what it taught, and they decide to follow that divinely approved pattern, calling themselves and their local church by no name other than Bible names, having no other organization than the Bible organization, and doing the work of local churches in the same way as the church you can read about in the Bible.

    3. What would you call them?

    4. Are they contributing to the problem of denominationalism, or did they find the solution?

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