Did Jesus really want seperate churches?

Question

Ok I know somebody is going to say he wanted one church, the only church, the church of christ. Let's be real and stop trying to make the church of christ the legitimate church because of the name......I know somebody is going to say please be a little more specific because there are many so called place of worship called the church of christ..It's all the same family.....Inglesia Ni Christo

Answer 1

Iglesia Ni Christo is simply another Christian denomination that found favour with in the Philippines because it supported and was supported by the Marcos regime.

Cheers :-)

Answer 2

In answer to the initial question, I would strongly suggest that no, he did not want separate churches. The Church was described as the body of Christ in which each member played an essential role. What good would it do if the body of Christ were divided? Christ called Apostles, Seventies, Priests, teachers, and other officers to govern his Church. There was a definite structure and corpus. After the first few decades after his Resurrection, persecution caused this initial Church structure to fall apart. The apostles were killed before new apostles were chosen. Communication between congregations was extremely difficult. The original Church that Christ established was lost. The divisions you see today in Christendom are a result of this "falling away" from the original Church of Jesus Christ. That original church was nowhere to be found for almost 2000 years. The Church of Jesus Christ had among the saints of former days can now only be found in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which is Christ's church restored in our own day by modern prophets of God.

Answer 3

No He did not. From my knowledge, over the years, the Church began as one with one doctrine. Then something occurred called the "Great Schism" or "East-West" Schism in 1054. You might want to google it. This is according to who you speak to, when the Catholic and Orthodox religion separated from this one faith based religion due to disagreements in Papal authority. So at this point and many years of disagreements you end up with the Orthodox Christians and the Catholics. It was man who allowed for the separate churches to occur. Then came Martin Luther and Protestantism and so on. There are those Christian religions who rely heavily on doctrine. For the most part in today's world the main thing that I think all Christians can agree on, which is the most important, is their belief in Christ as their Lord and Savior. Regardless of how they worship. When you pluck away the laws and the rules governing all Christian churches, He is the ONLY reason left. According to the Bible and Christians everywhere He is the Only Way into Heaven.

Answer 4

lets not get technical about the (church of christ)....its rediculas!
1 body...<---maybe, all christians do belong to 1 church! its all these little hang ups people have thats splits us...oh and dont forget power! I'll bet you did not know that the catholic church founded the inquision mainly to rout out the belief in reincarnation.
The church rested largly on the belief that it could decide, or at least influence, your state in the next world.
If reincarnation is true, no church or priest or anyone besides yourself has such power.
lol ..it made the church rich, all you had to say was that your neibor believed in reincarnation and the church would come take half the mans property and you would get the other half!
anyway I think if we are christians, we all claim the same right to the riches in heaven...thus we are all one church an dont even know it!

Answer 5

appears like the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. a million. It bears the call Jesus Christ 2. It has a administration of a Prophet and 12 apostles. 3. similar company. 4. Male individuals of the church holds the holy priesthood of Jesus. 5. there is not any paid ministry. 6. We baptize by immersion 7. certain, there is laying on of palms to receive the holy ghost. 8. we may be able to bless human beings interior the call of Christ, and we use a drop of 'blessed' olive oil. 9. God the daddy, Jesus Christ, and Holy Ghost are 3 separate persons. 10. The Church teaches that God and Jesus have bodies of flesh and bone. eleven. each chief/officer is termed TO and by revelation. 12. They do. 13. The Church sends hundereds of missionaries out each 365 days. the first oportunity to serve a challenge is once you're 19-21 years of age. also senior couples can also serve yet another challenge. 14. that's a restored church, it became restored to the international interior the 1800s. 15. We do, interior the holy temple. Yep appears like the Mormon Church to me. :D

Answer 6

Actually, biblically, a church is not a building where people meet or a specific denomination. It was really meant to be the term for a group of believers in Jesus Christ to meet, worship, pray and learn God's Word. All believers make up the 'church'. The different denominations and the great buildings are man invented. They seem to be a convenient place to meet, but they are not required. Yes, I agree with you that separate churches with their different rituals and traditions are often just confusing and negate their real purpose.

Answer 7

There is one Church, it consists of all who believe in Christ for salvation.

Now for why there are so many churches? Well, if I live in one town, it's not practical to fellowship regularly in one 60 miles away. Some division is geographical, some is cultural/linguistic, some of comes from differing polity (episcopalian, presbyterian, congregational), some from worship styles (formal, casual, liturgical, unstructured), non-essential doctrine (modes of baptism, the role of women, the role and practice of spiritual gifts).

Is Jesus grieved by these differences? Sometimes, especially when they are caused by quarrels and fighting. Sometimes these differences celebrate the fact that Christians aren't cookie-cutter copies of one another. I may attend a church that is structured differently from the one down the street - it probably has worship practices that I'm not used to as well. Good for us both! As long as we can pray and bless one another, I don't need to attend one giant church building with them to be one in Christ, we already are.

Answer 8

In my opinion God never said he wanted a church. Why did people even come up with a church? People are always saying oh well if you don't go to church so your going to hell. Just because someone doesn't go to church doesn't mean that if they pray god doesn't hear them and forgive their sins just like as if they did go to church. Why would god want a church and have them make donations to make the church better when people in the old days only prayed at home before there were ever churches?

Answer 9

The many denominations should not exist.

Notice what 1 Corinthians 1:10 says;"Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment."

Jesus prayed for such unity in John 17:20-21.

Why do we have so many divisions? Men are not satisfied to all speak the same thing. Men are not satisfied to teach only the word of God. Men are not satisfied to only speak where the Bible speaks, and be silent where the Bible is silent. Men are not content to do Bible things in Bible ways and call Bible things by Bible names. Too many wish to add their own desires and teach their own doctrine.

Notice 2 Timothy 4:2-4.
"Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables."

We should return to the Bible as our authority and only guide book. We should have a "thus saith the Lord" for everything we teach and do as a church. (Colossians 3:17)

The Bible teaches that the church is the body of Christ (Eph. 1:22-23) and that there is only "one body" (Eph 4:4).When the church first began, there were no denominations.

In Acts 2, we see that about 3000 all heard the same message, all understood it the same way, all believed it the same way and all obeyed it the same way. The result was they became Christians - nothing more, nothing less, nothing else. At this point, God added them to His church (Acts 2:47).

There is no authorization for Christians to "join the church of your choice", but they were added to the church Christ built and purchased! (Matt. 16:18, Acts 20:27)

After they became Christians they continued in one accord in fellowship and together in the apostles doctrine. (Acts 2:42-47) They had the type of unity Christians should have.

Today, if we read and understand what they understood, believe what they believed, and do only what they did, without adding any man-made doctrine, we will become only what they became - Christians!

This is the goal and plea of those who meet together under the name "church of Christ" today. We only want to be the church you can read about in the Bible.

Jesus said He has "all authority" and the apostles were to teach the things He had commanded. (Matthew 28:18-20) We want to follow that authority by following the things Jesus and the apostles taught. If we follow the teaching (doctrine) of men, then Christ does not have all authority in our spiritual lives. Those who are "teaching as doctrine the commandments of men" have form of worship that is "vain" or useless in God's eyes. (Matt 15:9)

Christ is the head of the church (Eph. 1:22-23), therefore we have no "headquarters" on Earth that oversees the local congregation, but each congregation goes directly to the Bible to see what should be taught and practiced.

A denomination is larger than the local congregation, but smaller than the universal church. Since the church of Christ congregations are autonomous, only governed by local congregations, with no regional, national, or world-wide "headquatrers" they are not a denomination. There is no man-made organization in between the local congregation (which is not a denomination) and the church as a whole (which is not a denomination).

We only want to follow God's word in our name (Rom. 16:16), method of worship, organization, and teaching (doctrine). The word of God is sufficient for doctrine, reproof, correction and instruction. Using it in this way, we can be completely furnished with everything we need, and there is no need to add any man-made doctrine. (2 Tim. 3:16-17)

I invite you to examine the Church of Christ by a comparison with the scriptures! If the things we teach are scriptural (things found in the Scripture), then accept them. If the things we teach contradict the Bible, then reject them! (See Acts 17:11)

Any church that claims to follow the Bible should not object to such a comparison to scriptures. In fact, they should encourage it!

Answer 10

Biblical History states Jesus stated about Peter to the assembled Apostles, "On this rock you will build my church." Peter was a Roman Citizen and eventually became not only a proselytizer, but, also the Bishop of Rome. Following him were a line of Popes.

Luther protested and founded the Protestants who hold the record for splintering a singular religious Faith into a multitude of variable religious faiths and "End of World" cults.