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Evangelical · 09-17-2016, 10:27 PM

Hi Nell,

God principally works through human beings, not that he needs to do so (He is God), but he has chosen to do so. The ecumenical movement is an attempt to bring man-made organizations together, which is a false unity.

The church is not an organization but the Body of Christ. The church is just Christ. The gates of hell can prevail against man -made organizations but not the true church. The true church is that which is made of living stones by God and not human hands, and is none other than Christ himself who is the only one who can prevail against the gates of hell. If we have a vision of the church we will see that Christians are already united spiritually in the one church, the body of Christ. To make any sort of distinctions between Christians is to exercise a sectarian and divisive spirit. The principle of Matt 23:8 is "all ye are brethren". There is no hierarchy in the sense of organizations and denominations and ruling over others. There is hierarchy in the sense of function - just like in our bodies the shoulder is higher than the arm and the arm cannot move unless the shoulder "tells" it to, but this does not mean the shoulder is more important than the arm.

09-17-2016, 10:27 PM	#5
Evangelical Member Join Date: Aug 2016 Posts: 3,965	Re: The Fallacy of Ecumenism Hi Nell, God principally works through human beings, not that he needs to do so (He is God), but he has chosen to do so. The ecumenical movement is an attempt to bring man-made organizations together, which is a false unity. The church is not an organization but the Body of Christ. The church is just Christ. The gates of hell can prevail against man -made organizations but not the true church. The true church is that which is made of living stones by God and not human hands, and is none other than Christ himself who is the only one who can prevail against the gates of hell. If we have a vision of the church we will see that Christians are already united spiritually in the one church, the body of Christ. To make any sort of distinctions between Christians is to exercise a sectarian and divisive spirit. The principle of Matt 23:8 is "all ye are brethren". There is no hierarchy in the sense of organizations and denominations and ruling over others. There is hierarchy in the sense of function - just like in our bodies the shoulder is higher than the arm and the arm cannot move unless the shoulder "tells" it to, but this does not mean the shoulder is more important than the arm.