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Church Denominational Differences 138
Church denominational differences are being whittled away by the Media who seek maximum impact all the time. At the time of the Reformation, protestants would have no decoration or symbolism in their churches and even whitewashed over medieval paintings in the name of religious purity. Today on television, those same zealous protestant evangelists surround themselves with banks of flowers and row upon row of vested choir members in glorious color gowns. The Media demands color, variety, and visual excitement and does not care particularly for church denomination differences except when it creates controversy and thus good theatre. The overall effect is to water down denominational varieties in favor of the overall production.
All Christians belong to the denominational body whether they want to or not. They are bound together, live together and sometimes die together in Christ. Colin Morris tells of the bloody counter revolution in the Belgian Congo in 1960-61. "Over three hundred missionaries, mostly Roman Catholics and extreme fundamentalists were killed. They not only bled the same way but whether they died clutching crucifixes or Schofield Reference Bibles they died for the same reason and the same Lord." Will the church grow by erasing church denomination differences? Interestingly, research shows that when churches amalgamate the overall body generally shrinks in size. Examples in South Korea according to eminent analyst Dr Donald McGavran show that, when churches splinter on questions of practice, they generally grow! The Lord seems to want his denominational body to contain as many church denomination differences as possible. At the same time, they retain theological unity in Christ himself. He is head over all parts of this as in all other Mystical Bodies.
"Church Denominational Differences."
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