Religious
people — even sincere Christian people — may divide themselves into
various denominations or churches, but there is no indication in the
Bible that God recognizes these divisions. Indeed, God makes it
abundantly clear that in His sight there is but one Church, composed of
all who truly trust in the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior. In I Cor.
12:12,13 the Apostle Paul declares by divine inspiration:
“For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ:“FOR BY ONE SPIRIT ARE WE ALL BAPTIZED INTO ONE BODY….”
Again, in Rom. 12:5, he says:
“SO WE, BEING MANY, ARE ONE BODY IN CHRIST, AND EVERY ONE MEMBERS ONE OF ANOTHER.”
Indeed,
it is on the basis of the fact that there is but “one body” in God’s
sight that He exhorts us to seek to “keep the unity of the Spirit”:
“ENDEAVORING TO KEEP THE UNITY OF THE SPIRIT IN THE BOND OF PEACE.“THERE IS ONE BODY….” (Eph. 4:3,4).
How
can we become members of that “one Body ,” the true Church? Ephesians 2
explains how Christ died for all, Jew and Gentile alike, “that He might
reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross…” (Ver. 16). Indeed
the Epistles of St. Paul show how God “hath concluded… all in unbelief
that He might have mercy upon all” (Rom. 11:32), and offer to them
reconciliation and salvation by grace through faith in Christ who died
for our sins.
The
question, then, is not: What church do you belong to? but, Do you
belong to the Church, the Body of Christ, composed of all who have
acknowledged themselves to be sinners in the sight of God and have
trusted in Christ and His finished work for salvation?
Les Feldick Ministries
30706 W. Lona Valley Rd.
Kinta, OK 74552
Posted By Cecil and Connie Spivey
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