BIBLICAL EXAMINATION OF FACTORS RESPONSIBLE FOR DIVISIONS IN THE CHURCH: A CASE STUDY OF CHRIST APOSTOLIC CHURCH
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the study
Helping people express and maintain their identities in the face of modernity, urbanization, and exploitation, as well as maintaining and advancing cultural traditions, are all part of a church’s purpose1. The church held discussions with followers of traditional religions in order to uphold the admirable divine and human ideals they embodied and to lay the groundwork for future forms of collaboration with them. Jesus called for unity among his disciples in John 17 because it is God’s will for us to be united.
“I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those who believe in Me through their word; that they may all be one; even as You, Father, are in me and I in You, that they may also be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me,” Jesus prayed in verses 20–23. In order for the world to know that You sent Me and loved them as much as You have loved Me, I have given them the glory that You have given me so that they may be one, just as We are; I in them and You in Me, so that they may be perfected in unity.
He prayed for others who will become disciples via their work in addition to the eleven surviving disciples1. According to the Bible, Christ Jesus gives his disciples credit for the numbers that would be generated. Unity among the disciples is the main worry Jesus raises at this point in his life because it will undoubtedly be a necessary condition for their future mission2. Members of the Body are at risk of disunity and division, particularly as the Church’s membership continues to grow.
It is evident that the oneness here represented is more transcendent than that of “simply human fellowship or the harmonious interaction of Christians,” as Christ is unquestionably supplicating the Father with references to God and himself.3. The Church’s message to the world, which bears witness to the Father’s sending of Christ, is the outward manifestation of this oneness.
“Now I exhort you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all agree and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be made complete in the same mind and in the same judgment,” Paul says in 1 Corinthians 1:10. In this passage, he takes a strong stance against factions and divisions within the Church Body, both in terms of doctrine and personal division. In his connection with Barnabas, Paul regrettably succumbs to one of these ideological divides.
The term “heiresses,” which Paul uses in 1 Corinthians 11:19 and Galatians 5:20 to address doctrinal divisions, indicates a divergence in good theology, even to the extent of being an unjustifiable group4. In light of the Passover holiday, Jesus instituted the Lord’s Supper just before the prayer in John 17. This institution was offered in large part to demonstrate and promote unity with the Godhead and unity as members of the Body of Christ. In 1 Corinthians 10:16, Paul maintains that the Lord’s Supper, which is a “sharing” in the blood and the Body of Christ, is the material manifestation of this desired oneness of communion, or church.
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According to Mounce, the word “church” connotes a sense of community, communion, involvement, and sharing5. Paul then only uses the term in a religious sense, not a secular one, to refer to something higher than a society and a higher level of fellowship. He also uses it to describe a “religious fellowship (participation) of the believer in Christ and Christian blessings for the mutual fellowship of believers.”6.
Although the church is also held with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in addition to the communion of the saints, according to 1 John 1:3 and 2 Corinthians 13:14, it is the Holy Spirit who alone draws believers into this fellowship7. The spiritual fellowship experienced by the Body as it is knitted together with the Godhead8 is manifested externally and physically in this church evidence.
The church, then, is the internal religious community or participation in the advantages of a connection with Christ, which occasionally takes the form of the Body of Christ. The right of indigenous and tribal peoples to follow Christ without losing sight of their ancestry is protected by the church7. As a result, the church plays a crucial role in the evolution of civilization. According to Schmitz, homothumadon is imbued with “togetherness,” as demonstrated by the outward, internal solidarity of a community confronted with a shared responsibility or peril; this unity, or unanimity, does not embrace a particular goal, but rather “on a cause greater than the individual”9. As a result, the term is used in Acts and just once else in the New Testament to describe the early Church and emphasize the group’s internal unity.
Table of Contents
Title Page i
Certification ii
Dedication iii
Acknowledgement iv
Abstract v
Table of Contents vi
CHAPTER ONE: – INTRODUCTION
1.1. Background of Studies
1.2. Statement of Problems
1.3. Objectives of Study
1.4. Significant of the Study
1.5. Scope of the Study
1.6. Limitation of the Study
1.7. Definition of Terms
Endnotes
CHAPTER TWO – LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1. Concept of the Church
2.2 Defining the Term “Unity”
2.3 Schism, Division, Separation, and Excommunication
2.4 Division and Personal Conflict
2.5 Establishment, Growth and Development of Churches
2.6 Unity and the Church
Endnotes
CHAPTER THREE – FACTORS RESPONSIBLE FOR DIVISIONISM IN THE CHURCH
3.1 Theological Teachings of Churches on Church Unity
3.2 Fellowship in the Old Testament
3.3. Induction of the Biblical Text on Division
3.4. Personal Conflicts in the Old Testament
3.5 Factors that Cause Divisions in Churches
Endnotes
CHAPTER FOUR: – THE BIBLICAL EXAMINATION OF FACTORS RESPONSIBLE FOR DIVISIONS IN THE CHURCH
4.1 The Contextualization of Division
4.2 Christological Separation
4.3 The Purity of the Church
4.4 Effects of Divisions on Churches
4.5 Possible Solutions to the Factors responsible for Divisions in the Church
Endnotes
CHAPTER FIVE: – SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
5.1 Summary
5.2. Conclusion
5.3 Recommendation
Endnotes
Bibliography
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