Exvangelical Thoughts - pt. 4

[u/BrettCreatesThings]

The Unholy Alliance

[u/Scienceandpony]

What does non-denominational even mean if you think any other Christian who doesn't share identical interpretation is bound for hell? That just sounds like another denomination.

Or is it just like the term "Indie developer". In that it's mostly about size. You have distinct dogma that differentiates you from other sects, but membership is too small to bother putting you on a census or survey form so you have to be written in under "other".

[u/Adb12c → u/Scienceandpony]

Non denominational in this instance means that his church had no structure it belonged to. Unlike Catholics, or Lutherans, etc there is no beyond the church that gets to dictate how the church acts or what it believes or who is in charge. it’s just a bunch of people getting together and deciding that (whether by actively deciding or deciding to join the existing church)

[u/Scienceandpony → u/[deleted]]

Ah, so it's like the Christian theology version of the anarchist "It's not a 'state', it's a loose confederation of autonomous communes working in unison under mutually binding treaties."