HOW MANY?

How many people attend your church, 50, 100, 1,000, 5,000?

How many people make up God's church or what is known as the kingdom of God? 1 billion, 2 billion, 3 billion?

How many people make up the Kingdom of God (his church) in your town? Your 50 or 500 or everyone in all the churches?

Going by the actions and attitudes of most churches, only the people in their particular expression of the church. The rest are..well Christians maybe but not quite to the standard we are.

You don't hold to these sentiments? Then why is it you never talk to the other Christians outside the four walls of your building. Why have you formed a separate congregation? Is it because of a burning desire to bring the good news to that part of town or is it because you want to keep yourself pure and unstained from Christians who0 don't think like you or believe what you believe?

If all the churches in any given town dropped their exclusion zone and asked their members to join together to evangelise and pray for the street they live in by using their homes as a base for their evangelism which woould mean that the Baptists, Anglicans, Pentecostalessies etc etc. would work together for the salvation of all the unbelievers in the street, would that be too much of a challenge to you as you may have to show grace for your brother who thinks a bit differently to you?

It is illogical and unacceptable to say we are members of the body of Christ and then not talk to 90% of the other members.

It is illogical and unacceptable to say we are doing God's will as a church when we shun nearly everyone who is part of it.

It is illogical and unacceptable to expect God to bless us when we actively divide the body of Christ.

It is illogical and unacceptable to say we follow God's word when we make doctrine more important than loving one another.

When Jesus brought into being his church it was one body with one Lord. What right do we have to usurp his authority and divide it into many bodies with many lords, with most of them promoting division and personal power.