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Protestant Church Day 137
The Worldwide Body is only effective while attached to Christ as the head. Heresy or disobedience may disable or even cut a denomination off from the body. Christ hurts when this happens for he died for his Body! One denomination does not have a monopoly over all of the Christian church's functions. The three major streams of Catholic, Protestant and Pentecostal unify the Body by the various roles they play. Those in the Catholic tradition bring liturgy and worship. It was the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches that maintained worldwide Christianity from the third to the fifteenth centuries of its life. Protestants major on personal faith. It is the churches of the Reformation who rediscovered the Bible and renewed the church over four centuries. The Pentecostal strand of Christianity allows the work of the Holy Spirit to be re-established in God's church.
Like the three strands of a rope, the Catholic, Protestant and Pentecostal movements give great strength in their diversity to the church. When one is weak, the other two take the load. In the New Testament church, the Pentecostal and Protestant strands were strong, especially in the Gentile church.In the Early Church, it was the Protestant section which brought such widespread growth, but after the third century the Catholic wing was in the ascendancy while the other two virtually faded away. At the Reformation, Protestants came to the fore. At the end of the Nineteenth Century, Pentecostal Renewal again swept through the church. A true disciple of Christ is fully Protestant, completely Pentecostal and thoroughly Catholic. Genuine Christianity holds all these truths and practices together at the same time.
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