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Is There Only One True Church?

Sep 25, 2020
Kenneth Drew

Where Is the True Church? What is the Church?

According to the scriptures the Lord commanded His disciples, (the 12 Apostles) to tarry or wait in Jerusalem, on the day of Pentecost and they would receive power from on high to start His church. (Acts 1:4) 

The same church we find in Matthew 16:16 where Jesus told Peter, "Upon This Rock, meaning the statement that Peter made prior, that Jesus was the Christ, the son of the Living God, and that he would build his church upon every confession made by men. He also told Peter that He was going to give him the keys to the kingdom/church and whatsoever was bound on earth shall be bound in heaven and whatsoever was loose on Earth shall be loosed in heaven. This was done in accordance with the prophecy found in the book of Isaiah, chapter 2, which states that the kingdom/Church would have it's beginning in Jerusalem. (Isaiah 2:2-4) Once the prophecy was fulfilled there was no authority given to start another church other than the one that Jesus started through his appointed disciples on Pentecost. (Cor 3:11) 

When was the church started?

The church that was started in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost has identifiable marks that we should be able to find in the Lord's church we see today. However, when you search the scriptures you will find that these different denominations are not found in the scriptures. According to history, so called denominationalism started during what is known now as the Protestant Reformation Period. Anyone claiming Christianity after this point were considered Protestants, because they came from a movement that was protesting against Catholicism and its teachings.

This description fits neatly around  the Catholic Church being The Great whoremonger spoken of in the Book of Revelation, which states that she would have bastard children/churches claiming to be of God. (Rev 17)

These same bastard churches have been around for quite sometime and has spawned the many community worship centers, and these so called none denominational churches, naming themselves everything but the church of the Lord. As if God is going to recognize them by some name He never authorized. Now this is the mess we as the church are faced with in these days and times.

 There is so much more information to share with you, but it's too much to put in this article. So if you have any questions about what I have just stated so far, please contact us and we can open the Bible and look at the scriptures for ourselves.

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