The Cause We Plead

Some may ask, “Why would I want to come to your church?”

You wouldn’t. You shouldn’t. My church would be just one of the many others that would be claimed to follow Christ, but still be based on human thinking and opinion.

You should be interested in attending Christ’s church.

The plea of the restoration has been and still should be to reject human creeds and denominational names and return to the practices, beliefs, and structure of the early Christian church as described in the Bible. We unite not on human leaders or traditions but under Christ alone.

If we give up what I think or what, what you think or want, what they thought or wanted, we are left with the pure gospel facts. Division comes not in the Bible or what the Bible says, but over what is outside of the Bible, or what the Bible does not say.

On the witness stand, one is asked to “tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. In the pulpit, we need something similar, “The Bible, the whole Bible and nothing but the Bible.”

The cause we plead is not to for you give what you believe for what I believe, but for us all to give up those things not consistent with the word of God.

We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ,

2nd Corinthians 10:5

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