Birth of a Reformation; Or, The Life and Labors of Daniel S. WarnerByers, A. L. (Andrew L.)
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Birth of a Reformation; Or, The Life and Labors of Daniel S. Warner
Byers, A. L. (Andrew L.)
Church of God (Anderson, Ind.) -- History; Warner, D. S. (Daniel Sidney), 1842-1895
But it may be claimed by some that all the sects taken together
constitute the true church in her visible organization. This is
also a great mistake. How can all these bodies sum up the one
organic visible church of God, when they have no organic relation
to each other? In what a disgraceful light sectism presents the
church! Does that look like a divine and heaven-born family,
that is composed of numerous, rival, jealous, independent, and
conflicting organisms? Oh, I beseech you for Christ's sake, do not
dishonor God by confounding his church with Babylon confusion!
Instead of sects giving the church of Christ a visible organization
they mar and destroy the visible organization and unity of the
church of Christ. A striking want of identity in the membership of
God's church and human sects also proves conclusively that no sect,
nor yet all sects together, constitutes the divine fold. Their
walls are not the walls of God's house at all, neither are "their
thresholds" his threshold. Many are in them who never entered God's
church, and, thank God, many have entered by Christ the door who
have never attached themselves to any of the factions that are not
of God, but the result of sin. If, then, the constituent elements
of sects are not identical with the elements of God's church, sects
themselves are not identical with her, and consequently their
organization is not her organization.
QUESTIONS ANSWERED
(Aug. 15, 1881.)
First: "Does the come-out element constitute the true church of
God?"
Answer: All true Christians in heaven and earth constitute the true
church of God. Eph. 3:15.
Second: "In what particular is the separationist, or come-out
church, better than the Wesleyan Methodist Church?"
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