What do you think would be a good reason for dividing a church? Doctrinal differences held in good conscience by both sides? Is this a good reason and the most common one for church splits? At the very beginning of church history Paul had to admonish the Corinthians who claimed to follow him, or Apollos, or Christ. Don’t you see this same pattern today, that the main reason for church splits is about personalities rather than doctrines? The Body of Christ is a transcendent single entity. If you are able to discern the Body of Christ you will be able to look past the people that comprise it.
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reason to split?
by Anonymous
God hates division. He knows the pain of a split -- after all satan took 1/3 of the angels in his rebellion. I do recognize that sometimes leaving a church becomes necessary -- for example -- if you cannot support the pastors vision -- to stay and cause division is worse than leaving without grumbling or complaint. Sometimes those "church hoppers" are those who are looking for fresh bread. Not all church hoppers are grumblers -- some are just starving. We must look at our own motives if we are wanting to move to another church. Sometimes if it is "people" who we are not getting along with -- the problem might be us!!! And the new place we will encounter the same situation because God is trying to work out our impurities and so we go back in the fire to bring those things to the surface, so they can be removed or we can run away again when things get too uncomfortable and end up going around the same mountain again.
Passing the Test
by Anonymous
I truly believe that God allows us to go through the fire time and time again to reprove and correct us. Shaping and cutting things out of us that should not be. Some test we will see again, if we do not pass the test the first time around and then again sometimes the same test revisits, so graciously and confidently to assure us that we are standing firm in the Lord. There comes a time when you have to move on and sometimes its hard and other times it can seem so easy. May God's plans prevail in the earth as it is in heaven!!!
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