Unions Or Unity?
Pastor
Cornelius R. Stam
(A 10 Minute Video)
Here is a company of Bible-believing Christians joined together
in, let us say, an evangelistic endeavor. All are trusting in the
shed blood of Christ for salvation, though some are Baptists, some
Presbyterians, some Episcopalians and some represent other
denominations.
Are all these believers one? Yes, in Christ, for “there is one
body” (Eph. 4:4).
What united them? The “one baptism” (Eph. 4:5) by which the
Holy Spirit unites all believers to Christ and to each other: “For
by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body whether we be Jews or
Gentiles…” (I Cor. 12:13).
Yet these same believers, all trusting in the finished work of
Christ for salvation, remain sadly divided as far as fellowship in
the work of the Lord is concerned. They may have blessed fellowship
in their evangelistic endeavor, but at its conclusion they go back to
their mutually exclusive church organizations.
The reason? Basically it is that they have confused “the gospel
of the kingdom,” proclaimed by Christ on earth and His twelve
apostles, with “the gospel of the grace of God,” proclaimed by
the ascended, glorified Lord through the Apostle Paul (Acts 20:24;
Eph. 3:1-3).
Striving over baptismal modes and meanings, most of them still
require their particular forms of baptism for entrance into their
churches, while explaining at the same time that the ceremony has no
saving value and that it is not required by God for entrance into the
true Church.
Can’t we stop being Presbyterians, Baptists and Methodists and
just be Christians? Why should the Church of Christ remain divided
and weak, when God says:
“WE BEING MANY ARE ONE BODY IN CHRIST, AND EVERY ONE MEMBERS ONE OF ANOTHER” (Rom. 12:5).
How
God Saves Men
Believing
Christ DIED, that’s HISTORY.
Believing
Christ DIED for YOU SINS and Rose again that’s SALVATION.
Read
Acts 16L31 Romans 1:16, and 1. Corinthians 15:1-4
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