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Is the message a denomination?: Difference between revisions
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A denomination is a faction of the church, out of fellowship with other factions, holding to some “distinctives” of doctrine, practice, worship, ethnicity, style, history, social class, etc. Denominationalism is any attempt to justify and maintain the separate existence of a denomination.<ref>John M. Frame, Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Christian Belief, (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 2013), 1141.</ref> | A denomination is a faction of the church, out of fellowship with other factions, holding to some “distinctives” of doctrine, practice, worship, ethnicity, style, history, social class, etc. Denominationalism is any attempt to justify and maintain the separate existence of a denomination.<ref>John M. Frame, Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Christian Belief, (Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing, 2013), 1141.</ref> | ||
On the basis of this definition, it is clear that [[The Message|the message]] is | On the basis of this definition, it is clear that [[The Message|the message]] is a denomination. | ||
==Is the message also a sect or a cult?== | ==Is the message also a sect or a cult?== | ||