ealgeone doesn’t NEED to belong to a church.
He belongs to JESUS and that is all anyone needs.
FWIW, I don’t belong to a church.
These flame bait threads attacking the Reformation are being posted on a daily basis. I’m sure it will get worse this fall. There are those that cannot stand the thought that their errors have been exposed and corrected and the Reformation has lasted 500 years. Their loss but we should avoid being drawn into the same tired old tactics. All these threads are designed to do is provoke argument so those that started it can run to mommy and daddy to get the big bad Christians banned. I for one am done playing
....”FWIW, I don’t belong to a church”....
Well that is worth a lot ....it indicates you’re standing “in” Christ for your Salvation. Whereas going to any particular church as a member will never guarantee ones Salvation...it cannot........Like works we ‘go’ to church ‘to worship the Lord as a body of believers together’...which He asks us to do.
I try to remember that Jesus’s ministry brought division wherever He went .... It was separating those who wanted to pursue the truth from those who did not and wanted to keep the error that their religious leaders were teaching them.... Separation becomes THE Issue in the end just as it was in the beginning.....but it is a hard thing that we have to accept the fact that God’s truth divides when we so want it to unite us as believers.