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Evangelical · 10-10-2016, 08:52 PM

Hi Exodus16,

Practical unity, for a start, is about people leaving their denominations and meeting on the basis of locality. Suppose I meet with Baptists one week and then Lutherans the next then Catholics the next.. doesn't change anything. Just as Jesus did not encourage his disciples to join the religion of his day, but met outside of it, we do the same.

You are right that those that took names were still in the one church. But the existence of denominations can and has been the result of that. Those that followed Apollos could have started the Apolloeran church, or those that followed Paul start Paulerian church. What has happened in history? Luther started the reformation but they created a thing called the Lutheran church. So the Lutheran church is the real church and Catholic isn't? So on and so forth.

So a solution to this is to simply not take names at all, everyone just consider themselves Christian. But everyone considering themselves just Christians is not a solution either, if people stay in their denominations. So we need to leave the denominations and meet on the basis of locality. Then we have the proper ground for true unity.

10-10-2016, 08:52 PM	#35
Evangelical Member Join Date: Aug 2016 Posts: 3,965	Re: The Fallacy of Ecumenism Hi Exodus16, Practical unity, for a start, is about people leaving their denominations and meeting on the basis of locality. Suppose I meet with Baptists one week and then Lutherans the next then Catholics the next.. doesn't change anything. Just as Jesus did not encourage his disciples to join the religion of his day, but met outside of it, we do the same. You are right that those that took names were still in the one church. But the existence of denominations can and has been the result of that. Those that followed Apollos could have started the Apolloeran church, or those that followed Paul start Paulerian church. What has happened in history? Luther started the reformation but they created a thing called the Lutheran church. So the Lutheran church is the real church and Catholic isn't? So on and so forth. So a solution to this is to simply not take names at all, everyone just consider themselves Christian. But everyone considering themselves just Christians is not a solution either, if people stay in their denominations. So we need to leave the denominations and meet on the basis of locality. Then we have the proper ground for true unity.