QUESTION: Do all different churches (denominations) make up the church of Christ?

ANSWER: No! In Ephesians 4:4, the Bible says that there is only “one body.” In Ephesians 1:22-23; Colossians 1:18, 24, we learn that the “body” is the church. Therefore, if there is only “one body,” there is clearly only one church. This church is the church of the Bible and is the only church that is of divine origin. All others are of men and will eventually fail (Psalms 127:1; Matthew 15:13). Neither is there salvation to be found in any of them (Acts 4:12). Different groups cannot walk together except they be agreed (Amos 3:3).

Additionally, God’s people are to be of the same mind and in the same judgment (I Corinthians 1:10). Since clearly and certainly, there are great differences and disagreements between today’s denominations, it only follows that the thinking that all of these make up the church of Christ has absolutely no foundation in His Word, and that it is impossible for them to walk together in one body!

The only church in which one can be saved is called in the Bible the “church of Christ” (Romans 16:16). It is the church that Christ promised to build (Matthew 16:18); the church that He died to build (Acts 20:28); and the church to which immersed believers were added on the day of Pentecost (Acts 2:47). It is that body of believers, called out from this world, who look only to the word of God fortheir worship practices and conduct of life. It is the church of Christ!