Suppose I baked a dozen cookies. Each cookie contained equal amounts of chocolate chips, flour, sugar, and butter. Now, they all taste and look exactly alike. However, each cookie was baked differently. Even if I baked them at different temperatures for different periods of time, it’s still a chocolate chip cookie, right? If each cookie tastes the same, it really does not matter whether I baked one at 400º for 15 minutes and another at 450º for 10 minutes. I will call this the “cookie theory”. I believe that the “cookie theory” is applicable to church denominations. As long as each church follows God’s commandments, it does not matter whether the sermon is taught by a pastor or by a priest. Either way, God’s people can get His message. Denominations arose from the idea that God must be worshipped a certain way. Over time, people disagreed over the way God should be worshipped. This caused division among the body of the church. Hundreds of years of dissension and disagreement among the Christians led to dozens of denominations that hold different belief regarding how God is to be worshipped. I believe that denominations cause unnecessary division among Christians since each sect holds a different meaning for the word …show more content…
A pastor and church elders usually govern each church, and presbyters govern Presbyterian churches. Even though this seems like a good idea, since each sect of Christianity has a different idea of what a “church” actually is, it can be difficult to understand the meaning of the word. When two or Christians gather in a single space to pray and worship, God says it is a church. However, man defines church as the physical place of worship and the people who worship there. Personally, I believe God’s definition is the better