Mac and I are double brothers. We are both veterans and both Christians. Mac comes from a Roman Catholic upbringing and I came to faith later in life at age 29. After a journey through several denominations, I came to the point where I simply say I am a non-denominationalist.
Mac being Roman Catholic was accustomed to Protestants disparaging his views. The same is often true of the Roman Catholic view towards Protestants. Is this what the Bible teaches us? Is this what Jesus prayed for? No. It is clear that Jesus and the Biblical Old and New Testament authors taught the unity of the church.
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John 17 Jesus Prays for All Believers
20“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— 23I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
34“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. 35By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”
Indeed, you are still not ready. 3You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere humans? 4For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not mere human beings?
5What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe…
21So then, no more boasting about human leaders! All things are yours, 22whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas (Peter) c or the world or life or death or the present or the future—all are yours, 23and you are of Christ, and Christ is of God.
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