QC and SG accountability
Today (as promised) our QC question was on denominations. I mentioned that critics of denominations (like Roman Catholics) quote Jesus’ prayer in John 17:21 “That all of them may be one” as evidence that denominations are wrong. But the context of the verse – “that they may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you.” tells us that the unity Jesus prays for (and surely His prayers are always answered) is not organizational unity, but spiritual unity. We believe, then, that true believers who make up the invisible church are always united in Christ, even if they belong to different denominations. In contrast, those members of the visible church who are not believers are not united in Christ. The chief reason why the Roman Catholic is able to maintain a structural unity is that they believe in an infallible, church-sanctioned interpretation of God’s infallible word. This means that they avoid the numerous theological disagreements Protestants have that separate diffe...