Jude 3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

Often times I’ve been asked why there are so  many different kinds of Churches. Some religious scholars say there are as many as 45,000 different denominations world wide which doesn’t take into account how many different churches there are. Since Jesus said that He would build His Church and the gates of hell would not prevail against It; that’s singular not plural, it stands to reason that a divided Church is not what God wanted it to be. God envisions one Church, man has divided it into many. Jude simplifies the issue for us when he says that we should earnestly contend for the faith. There is only one true God, there is only one true way to salvation, and there is only one true way to live out faith God’s way. Our call is to seek after God and His ways, not man’s. Even the Apostle Paul said to follow him as he follows Christ. In these last days it is becoming more and more important for us to work out our own salvation with fear and trembling before God and to make sure we are following leaders who are following Christ, not some man-made religious ideology. May we all seek hard after God is my prayer.

Keeping it Real!

Pastor Crowson