By Labeling each other have we moved from A Movement to a Denomination??

[revrandy]

Are the Words of This Thread True??

By our Labeling of each other have we transitioned from a Movement into a Denomination..

Thereby destroying ourselves from the Inside out?

It would seem that there are many splinters in the UPC nowadays.. Men who once respected the difference's of the others now isolate fellowship over simple differences.

I am NOT speaking of differences of Grand Proportions but insignificant differences...

We put labels on everything nowadays.. and if we disagree with someone we label them.. as to categorize the Organization..

Don't have him preach.. He wears a Wedding ring...
Don't have him preach.. He preaches against short sleeves..

Paul warned against this in the New Testament.. and we commit it everyday..

Paul said.. some are of Apollos and some of Cephas... and some of Him.. and others say they are of Christ..

I ask you as Paul asked??? IS CHRIST DIVIDED???

Paul said that NO Flesh should be glorified... are we sinning by labeling each other??

He said in Chapter 3 of Corinthians...

3For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

4For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?

5Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?

6I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

7So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.

8Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.

9For we are labourers together with God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building.


I am guilty of labeling co-laborers and for that I am Sorry!!

I do NOt want to be counted as Carnal in this matter... Because it is God that gives the increase...