The Ultimate Question - 2520 Words

The Ultimate Questions First, let me start off my paper by giving thanks. I would like to thank you Lord for loving me enough that he thought I was worth saving and worth keeping. He gave his life for mine, if this wasn’t so my presences would not be here. He put in place a Church and its leaders that helped with my feedings of the words of God and as I listened my life began to change. My relationship with him grew personally as well as my spiritually again thank you. Being in this course the History of Ecclesiology and Polity, it has taught me many things about the difference in denominations of the church. In the Pauline letters Paul, who was a minister of Christ Jesus wanted us to know what was the structures and order of the Gentile†¦show more content†¦Paul refers to many church leaders as Thessalonica for their hard work in the Lord. He asks that they hold these leaders in the highest regard in love because of their work (Longenecker, R. N. 2002. p. 84). The overseers are those who serves the church as elders, bishops and deacons, â€Å"So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ† (Ephesians 4:11-13 NIV). There was no absence of organization i n the office of the church. So why are there so many denominations? Here are a few names of some denominations that many have choose to worship with. Some of us attend the Christian Non-denomination, Catholic, Presbyterian, Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist or Wesleyan, Protestant, Pentecostal or Charismatic, and Episcopalian or Anglican, Jehovah’s Witness and Mennonite a few that comes to mind. I am sure that there are more but I cannot think of them at this time. The denomination that has the largest membership size in the United States in today’s churches is the Catholic Churches. The Catholic Church is also part of the Christian Church community that is led by a Pope, the Rome Bishop or