If you disagree with other church members' theology, do you leave, change your mind or tolerate the diversity?

Answer 1

If a regular member has a differing view, that will not affect my decision to worship in that church. But if the pastor has a view that I feel contradicts the Bible, I will definitely move on to greener pastures.

Answer 2

If it's unbiblical theology being touted as the church's belief, then I find another church to worship in. If it's a "negotiable" or only a difference of opinion, or is a misunderstanding of one person at the church, I stay. Tolerate diversity but not to the point of letting the Word become mutated and twisted or abandoned.

Answer 3

I would have to go to a church that taught the way I believe. Ive been a Christian for over three decades and Ive heard a lot of teaching. Ive read the bible through a few times, so I believe that I have a fairly good idea of what is gospel and what is man made teaching.There are many churches out there, find one that seems to teach the truth.

Answer 4

What is wrong with agreeing to disagree? We have some members in our church whom I disagree with and who disagree with me on matters of theology but I respect them for who they are.

Answer 5

I have switched churches a few times. Mostly because the leaders lost focus by purchasing themselves Escalades and private planes.

Answer 6

It would depend on whether it disagreed with your own core beliefs and the foundations of your own spirituality.

Also if others were totally respectful of your perspective.

In such a case why would you want to stay in such an environment.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

I walk out if I disagree with what Is being taught.

Answer 9

if you were me which your not I would A . follow your heart an d do what you feel you need to do, or B. prayer to god to give you a answer about this problem.

Answer 10

One Religion Will Remain

IMAGINE what it would be like if all people on earth were united in one religion, in one pure worship of the only true God. What a source of unity that would be! There would be no more religious contention, strife, or war. Is this only a dream? No. The apostle John’s vision of the destruction of the harlot, the world empire of false religion, indicates that one form of worship will remain after her destruction. Which one?

The voice that John heard from heaven gives us a clue: “Get out of her, my people, if you do not want to share with her in her sins, and if you do not want to receive part of her plagues.” (Revelation 18:4) It is evident that God himself is here speaking to his people. Note that he does not command his people to mix in with the harlot in an ecumenical effort to save her by helping her to adjust to a decent life. No, there is no remedy for her. Therefore, he commands them to get out of and stay away from her in order to avoid being contaminated by her gross sinfulness and to avoid eventually being judged and destroyed together with her.

The heavenly command to “get out of her” also helps sincere truth seekers to identify God’s people. They may ask themselves, ‘Which people on earth today have heeded this command by resigning from any religion, organization, or body of worshipers connected with “Babylon the Great”? (Revelation 18:2) Which people on earth today have thus freed themselves from all Babylonish doctrines, creeds, practices, and traditions?’ Who else could it be but Jehovah’s Witnesses? Among the more than 6.2 million Witnesses in upwards of 235 lands, all who had been associated with some Babylonish religion, either by birth or conversion, have expressly resigned from it—sometimes in spite of protests and opposition from relatives, friends, and religious leaders.

One example is Henry, a South African man, who was the treasurer of his church and was deeply attached to it. But he was searching for the truth, and one day he accepted a free home Bible study with Jehovah’s Witnesses. In time, when he decided to become a Witness, he told his pastor, who was also his close neighbor, that he wanted to resign from the church.

The pastor was shocked and later took the moderator and other members of the church to visit Henry. They asked why he had left their church to become a member of a religion that, according to them, does not have God’s holy spirit. “At first, I was afraid to answer them,” said Henry, “because they had always had great influence over me. But I prayed to Jehovah for help, and he enabled me to make this defense: ‘Of all international religions, which is the only one that regularly uses God’s name, Jehovah? Is it not Jehovah’s Witnesses? Do you think God would allow them to bear his name and not also give them his holy spirit?’” The church officials were unable to refute this reasoning, and Henry is now one of Jehovah’s Witnesses.

So when the voice from heaven commands: “Get out of her,” there is somewhere to go. (Revelation 18:4) There are people, worshipers of the true God, Jehovah, to whom you can flee. Millions have fled. Known as Jehovah’s Witnesses, they make up an international Christian brotherhood, organized in over 78,600 congregations, and are now experiencing the largest growth in their history. They have baptized over 1,200,000 people in the past four years! Before baptism, all of these had completed a spiritually stimulating course of Bible study, enabling them to make a personal, well-founded decision to resign from all former attachment to any other religion.—Zephaniah 2:2, 3.

If you have not as yet attended a meeting of Jehovah’s Witnesses at one of their Kingdom Halls, why not do so this week? You may well be favorably impressed with what you see and hear. And if you want to understand the Bible, why not ask one of Jehovah’s Witnesses to study it with you, as millions of others have done? If your prayer is for the true understanding of God’s Word along with a way of life that is in harmony with that Word, you will find the answer to your prayer.