Denominationalism
12 Lessons in this series
Denominationalism: How Did Jesus Organize His Church?
In this introduction to a series on denominationalism, we look at how Christ's church is supposed to be organized. When we see how Jesus designed...
Denominationalism: How Do Men Organize Their Churches?
In the previous class, we looked at how Jesus organized His church. In this class, we want to contrast this with how men organize their churches or...
Denominationalism: Naming the Church
In this class, we focus on the name of the church and demonstrate that there is no title given by God to the church. We also see that "name" often...
Denominationalism: Clergy (part 1)
Is there such a thing as clergy or laity in the Lord's church? What do these ideas even mean? Who has authority to determine roles within the church...
Denominationalism: Clergy (part 2)
When we look at the idea of clergy, we must notice that there are those who are appointed within the Lord's church to various work. What is the...
Denominationalism: Clergy - How It Creeps Into the Lord's Church
While the full idea of clergy can never be in the Lord's church, some of the concepts that go along with it can easily find their way into our own...
Denominationalism: Creeds
What is a creed and why are they are a problem? Is the only problem with creeds that they sometimes contain false teaching or is there a deeper...
Denominationalism: Creeds In the Church of God
In God's church, there are no true creeds. However, in the mind of individuals or groups of Christians, there may be some thinking that is similar...
Denominationalism: Organizations
While the local church is an organization, Jesus never set up any other organizational structure in His church. We look in this lesson at some ways...
How Churches of Christ Fall Into the Trap of Organizations
When we look at churches that in general are trying to follow Christ, where do they sometimes go wrong in following the examples of denominations?...
Uniforms
In South Africa, denominations tend to have specific uniforms to identify their members when they are going to worship. What does the Bible say...
Review and Conclusion
In this final class in this series, we take a brief look at what we have found regarding certain ideas found in denominationalism and we look at 1...