How can christians or anyone else in a religion be non-denominational?

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Answer 1

To my knowledge the Church of Christ is the only non-denominational church or religion. Catholic, Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, etc. all have a national headquarters. The members of the Church of Christ say their headquarters is in heaven.

While there is certainly some association between the various congregations each is independent and separate. In fact years ago it was often difficult for ministers of the Church of Christ to obtain licenses to perform marriages because the state would require a letter from their headquarters and their reply would be their headquarters was in heaven.

Answer 2

In the beginnign of Jesus teachings he did not formed any denominations, Neither did the Apostles, Acts 2:42 speaks of the Apostles doctrine, The Apostles never did form a denomination, Denominations are made by men, they take a certain part of truth & stop with it & some re 300 yrs behind God, God keeps on revealing his Truth. There will be a Bride That lstern to the 5 fold minitry as Eph. 4:11-17 says & also as Rev 19:7 says that the Bride Hath made herself ready. Denominations are made by man, Truth is given by God.

Answer 3

Real simple. I'm not a member of any established "religion" or church. Once in a while I do go to a church that is non-denominational, but very conservative and outside the "mainstream" religious canopy of modern religion.
This church is not organized like other 501(c)3 churches, takes no collections, discusses any topic-religious, political, social, economic, scientific (one of the attendees has his Ph.D in BioPhysics and is extremely interesting to talk with-thinks Dawkins is a total ***), or whatever. The main thrust is centered on studying the Word and its application(s) and implications for mankind. It's very informal but productive. I probably should attend more often than I do.

Answer 4

I think that just means they don't commit to any particular church. And the churches who are "non-denominational" just support that idea. The only thing I can figure is that it is popular among those who are afraid of commitment.
Edit:
I guess that they could have not found what they are looking for in a religion.

Answer 5

Young Prophet,
Most Denominations believe alike and expect all other churches in that "denomination" to fall in line with those beliefs. A Non-Denominational Church is free to read, study, and obey the BIBLE without the constraints of a Denominational ideology holding them from the TRUTH in many ways. For instance, many denominational churches put all of their monies together and allow someone to do their choice of evangelists. This is not what I see in the BIBLE and I do not want any part of it. Have a wonderful day!
Thanks,
Eds (Non-Denominational Christian)


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Answer 6

I'm not sure what you are asking, but I will do my best to answer. A denomination in Christianity is a group of churches that share common beliefs and scriptural understanding. They work together as a denomination to achieve greater goals. Churches within a denomination are Christian churches.

A non-denominational church is one that normally forms within a community from a small group who shares common beliefs and scriptural understanding. They choose not to associate except very loosely with other churches. Christians who belong to these churches are non-denominational.

A third factor is the person who calls themselves a Christian but does not associate with any church. In my opinion, this is a position that is difficult to maintain as Jesus himself stressed the importance of the ministry of the church and the fellowship it brings.

Pastor John

Addendum: To Kelly Ann - Both the Churches of Christ and the United Churches of Christ are denominations (http://church-of-christ.org/). However, I noticed several churches that say they are Church of Christ. However, there are numerous Bible churches in any community that are non-denominational.

Answer 7

I go to a fine non-denominational church, that concentrates more on the person of Jesus Christ, and the Biblical doctrines that hold all Christians together, than it does on the differences that create denominations in the first place. Someone said it show a lack of commitment. More correctly it shows more of a commitment to God than it does to an organization. All Christians are welcome in my church, no matter what their denomination, and I feel like I can go to whatever church I want to, as long as the name of Jesus Christ is being lifted up. Amen.

Answer 8

Denomination is a just another word for separation. However it becomes necessary to separate yourself when some groups decide to deny the real word of God and phase in their own ideas or morality. This is usually a mixture of pagan traditions.

For example during the council of Ephesus, when it was decided that the mother of Jesus was worthy of deification and had the ability to forgive sins. This is clearly against what Christ taught. This did not stop the Ephesians though, who were already used to worshiping the goddess Diana.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Ephesus
http://www.abcog.org/mary4.htm

Answer 9

Simple. By not having a denomination. I attend a Baptist church, but I am not a member of the church, nor do I consider myself a Baptist. There is quite a lot I disagree with in their doctrine.

Answer 10

We don't follow organized man made religion like Methodist, Catholic, Lutheran etc. etc. We are a "New Testament" church (for the most part) and follow and adhere to the teachings of Christ - hence: Christian. Even though Christianity is refered to as a religion in the dictionary, I do not consider Christian to be a religion. It is more of a lifestyle. You live your "Christianity" every day -- you don't just follow man made rules and regulations inside a building on Sunday.

I asked my pastor what "religion" we most resembled and he said "Methodist".