Saturday, December 31st, 2011.
Why are there so many different churches?
Many think for the same reason there are so many different restaurants: people have different tastes.
While this is partially true in consumer driven 2011; there is also large confusion in the church regarding what we ought to be doing.
There is terrible doctrinal disunity in the church in large part due to a failure to recognize the greater commission given to the apostle Paul to us-ward in this dispensation (Eph 3:1-9).
By failing to distinguish Paul’s ministry of the mystery of Christ to all men from the ministry of the Twelve apostles to prophetic Israel, commision confusion ensues.
Divisions are created when a doctrine to Israel is combined with a mystery truth. There are hundreds of combinations of these wrong admixtures; there are hundreds of churches.
Separating prophecy and mystery promotes unity around sound doctrine. The Lord teaches us that unity any other way is not worth having.
For God’s glory,
Justin “unity in doctrine” Johnson