Lloren
Christian Gamers Alliance Forums Administrator
Fortunately what you and I see doesn't really matter. It's what God sees as truly the Catholic (invisible and universal) Church. Division and divisiveness roots itself in the pride and sin of our humanity. When one group (Catholic or Protestant) props itself up as the "right" way... they are wrong.
When we start setting up that "we know" we immediately don't know. God in his infinite wisdom doesn't see a broken and diverging stream in Protestantism or in Catholicism, but His Body. The weakness of us magnified in the Power and Holiness of Himself.
There will be a Day when people from all tribes and ethne (people) will be worshiping the Father in the Kingdom. And I'm convinced that those tribes and people will not all worship the same, in the same tongue, with the same dance, or the same rituals. God is not a Catholic. God is not a Protestant. God is God. And our joy will be that at the end of His command make disciples worship will continue on for all eternity. Our mandate to spread the gospel will end. Worship will not. And this worship will be as unique as all the people of the world whom God created.
Let's not devolve this thread into a "X denomination is this so therefore Y denomination is wrong". If the finger pointing continues the thread will close.
2 If anyone supposes that he knows anything, he has not yet known as he ought to know 1 Cor 8:2
When we start setting up that "we know" we immediately don't know. God in his infinite wisdom doesn't see a broken and diverging stream in Protestantism or in Catholicism, but His Body. The weakness of us magnified in the Power and Holiness of Himself.
There will be a Day when people from all tribes and ethne (people) will be worshiping the Father in the Kingdom. And I'm convinced that those tribes and people will not all worship the same, in the same tongue, with the same dance, or the same rituals. God is not a Catholic. God is not a Protestant. God is God. And our joy will be that at the end of His command make disciples worship will continue on for all eternity. Our mandate to spread the gospel will end. Worship will not. And this worship will be as unique as all the people of the world whom God created.
Let's not devolve this thread into a "X denomination is this so therefore Y denomination is wrong". If the finger pointing continues the thread will close.
If you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other. - Gal 5:15
Romans 14:19 - Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another