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Reformation Day 134
Since the Reformation, denominations have been a major force in church life. They have survived and flourished because each had some special and major feature which distinguished them from the rest. These differences were generally about practice and caused splinter groups to separate from the main body.Anglicans came out of the Roman Catholic Church, the Methodists out of the Anglicans, the Salvation Army out of the Methodists.. Sometimes these splits were a reaction to abuse or were caused by political pressure.
Sometimes these denominations represent different forms of church government. One church thus becomes Methodist, another Free Methodist, a third Wee Free Methodist. Loren Mead describes this phenomena, "There was a make believe quality in each shard's assumption that its world was a microcosm of the whole world of which it was the remnant, as if nothing else exists."1
1Loren Mead "The Once and Future Church."
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