Posted on 05/15/2026 10:32:32 AM PDT by TexasKamaAina
Why do modern Christians instinctively assume that Christianity depends so heavily upon their own ability to preserve it?
That assumption says more than people realize.
Beneath much of modern religious culture lies a quiet distrust that the Church can truly carry and preserve the faith through history. The burden therefore falls upon the pastor, the scholar, the movement, the denomination, or eventually the individual believer to rescue Christianity from corruption.
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The Fathers never used the word “denomination”. There was the Church, the pagans, and the heretics.
Congregationalism needs to make a big comeback.
As long as apostates run the churches and it is all about filling the pews for donations with rock and roll shows the church will shrink more.
That was long before the “Creative Readers” came along.
Arrogance.
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