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Denominations

There are over 40,000 Christian denominations which vary in doctrines and form.

A religious denomination is said to be "a subgroup within a religion that operates under a common name, tradition, and identity."

A Christian denomination is a generic phrase pointing to distinct body identified by religious characteristics such as a common name, structure, leadership, and doctrine.

But to be truly Christian any and every denomination must have a doctrine that is in conformity with the doctrines of Jesus.

There can be but one common denominator for the "called out" of Christ and that is Christ Himself, His teachings, and His doctrine.

Most that claim to be His Church are often seriously flawed when compared to what Jesus, who was the Christ, specifically decreed.

If the Church was established by Jesus the Christ there should be some consistency in what is claiming to be the Church. We are told that we will know them by their fruits. So what is the fruit of His Church as opposed to the churches of the world?

Denominations - Followers Catholicism 1.2 billion Protestantism 800 million Eastern Orthodoxy 225–300 million Oriental Orthodoxy 86 million Anglicanism 85 million Restorationism and Nontrinitarianism 41 million Church of the East - 0.6 million

The early Church provided all the social welfare of Christians. If you accepted Jesus as the Christ you would be cast out of the social welfare system of the government of Judea run through the temple and its system of synagogues. That system of welfare was established by Herod and his Baptism and was funded by the sacrifice or Corban of the Pharisees.

Jesus said that form of Corban made the word of God to none effect because it was not based on charity but a socialist type of welfare. Without charity to care for the needy or elderly in society, including our parents, the sacrifice will not bear good fruit.

Jesus came to take the kingdom away from a group that had set up this ineffective system of Corban. And He was going to give it to a group He called out of the world. They were going to be in the world so that they could be His ministers of the righteous mammon.

Not only Judea but Rome had its own system of Qorban which had changed from a republic to system that brought in corruption and despotism. The term offering or "freewill offering" is found in the Torah in relation to the worship of Ancient Israel. It is mainly represented by the Hebrew noun korban (קָרְבָּן) which we see as Corban κορβαν in the New Testament which is also translated "treasury" in Matthew 27:6. Forms of the word qorban ןברק are translated hundreds of time as offering, oblation, offered, sacrifice... and are from a verb defined "to come near, approach, enter into, draw near or cause to draw near". It is through the sacrifices of love and charity found in the character or name of Jesus the Christ that we draw near God.

The word disciple means student and He told this little group of students that they had to give up all their property and own all things in common to be his disciples and the eventual ministers of his appointed kingdom.

So all these Church denominations claim to be the Church.

What are their fruits?

Most people who were called Christians were forced to become a part of the Catholic Church about a thousand years after Christ instituted His Holy Church. Over 60,000,000 perished during the conflict imposed across Europe while at the same time the Catholic Church began crowning kings over one community of people after another until governments ruled vast areas with or without the peoples consent.

About 500 years later the protestant reformation attempted to go back to what the early Church was intended to be but they too often brought with them ideas about the Church that were not wholly Christ ordained. They were found dividing people by their private interpretations.

The Church was to bind the people by love alone.

They were to practice Pure Religion.

They were to be the Benefactors who did not exercise authority one over the other.

The Church legally defined as a government that had an identity based on two or more witnesses and the practice of Pure Religion. It would not return the people to the bondage of Herod or Egypt

The only way the Church can be the Benefactors of the people is by the people voluntarily coming together in a living Network of small intimate Congregations of Record that love one another as much as they love themselves.

The denomination of Christianity is based on Christ as the one common denominator. So Christians will be doing what Christ said and he wanted us to to attend to the Weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith which include caring for the needs of our neighbors and the widows and orphans of our society through Pure Religion in matters of health, education, and welfare. We are NOT to provide for the needy of society through the Covetous Practices and the men who call themselves benefactors but who exercise authority one over the other like the socialists do.

The Way of Christ was like neither the way of the world of Rome nor the governments of the gentiles who depend on those fathers of the earth through force, fear and fealty who deliver the people back in bondage again like they were in Egypt. Christ's ministers and true Christians do not depend upon systems of social welfare that force the contributions of the people like the corban of the Pharisees which made the word of God to none effect. Many people have been deceived to go the way of Balaam and the Nicolaitan and out of The Way of Christ and have become workers of iniquity.

The Christian conflict with Rome in the first century Church appointed by Christ was because they would not apply to the fathers of the earth for their free bread but instead relied upon a voluntary network providing a daily ministration to the needy of society through Faith, Hope, and Charity by way of freewill offerings of the people, for the people, and by the people through the perfect law of liberty in Free Assemblies according to the ancient pattern of Tuns or Tens as He commanded.

The modern Christians are in need of repentance.

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"Follow me!" —Jesus the Christ.

• One of the most important things to do is to become involved in a network of Charitable Practices. Everyone should want to join a Living Network of Love and Charity.

• If you think you have a calling to be a Minister of God or you might want to dedicate your life to Christ as an Ordained Minister of His Holy Church, contact us to start the process of discipleship and become the benefactors who exercise only love, NOT authority.

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