It is divided.
I got a headache just reading that.
I’m surprised they’re not arguing over whether Adam and Eve had bellybuttons.
What’s next? Dividing over the color of the carpet?
Jesus made salvation easy enough for a child to understand. These men are too religious to receive Christ as little children.
Interesting. You can add the loosey goosey teaching in some C of C Bible Colleges and have big issues on other end of spectrum. Trying to emulate liberal churches.
What’s the purpose of all these threads you’ve posted about the church of Christ?
There is at least one cult version.
The International Church of Christ (ICOC) http://www.icoc.org/
http://www.cultwatch.com/icc.html
As soon as you let humans into anything, you are going to have divisions, disagreements, pulling and tugging.
Its a human thing. Even something as relatively straightforward as the Bible, whoever reads it, someone else will quibble about some minor issue. Humans are just that way.
But just as God gives us grace, we need to extend grace to each other. And we need to keep a sense of proportion. Some disagreements are important; some are not. Some are worth separating over as the Holy Spirit leads and some simply are not. If you can forgive your brother’s doctrinal shortcomings in areas that are not make-or-break you also trust that God will overlook yours, which you surely will have. The body of Christ is a big noisy family; we are going to be arguing with one another all the way to the grave and, who knows, right on through eternity. God made us this way, I suspect he is used to us.
Sheep and Goats divided as promised.
Read Mark 9:38 as the Lord Himself deals with the issue of His disciples who want to set themselves up as dividers.