Have you ever looked around and wondered why there are so many different religious organizations or churches in the world?  It seems that there are new religions popping up everyday in most places around our country.  What is even more confusing is that most of these religious groups are all teaching and preaching a different message.  In many ways the message of one group is a directly opposed to the message of another.  Can all of these be true to the directions of God?  Is God’s message to man really full of oppositions and contradictions?  Is truth relative?

     Consider what we find written in God’s word in Ephesians 4:4-6, “There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all (NKJV).”  Notice in this passage that there are many faiths (one) and as many bodies (one) as there are Lords and Gods (also just one).  We can also see that the body is the church by reading further in the Ephesian letter (Ephesians 5:23) and in the book of Colossians (Colossians 1:18, 24).

     Since we see in God’s word that there is just one body – just one church – then we should do all that we can to make sure that we are in that one church.  This is the church that Jesus promised to establish (Matthew 16:16-19).  This is the church that was established on that day of Pentecost in Jerusalem (Acts 2).  Back in the first century there was only one church that the believers were a part of.  There were not different denominations on every corner or on every street.  Let us strive to belong to that church that was built by God!