2. The First Principles Sunday Class: Evidence for Faith
Sunday AM: Is One Faith as Good as Another?
Sunday PM: Bible Authority
Monday: The Blood of Christ
Tuesday: Will Only Those in the Church of Christ be Saved?
Wednesday: Conversion of the 3,000
Thursday: Grace, Faith, and Works
Friday: The New Birth

3. Form of a question Form of a statement Form of a Joke
“Those in the Church of Christ think they are the only ones going to heaven.”
Form of a question
Form of a statement
Form of a Joke

4. Will Only Those in the
Church of Christ
Be Saved?

5. Will Only Those in the Church of Christ Be Saved?
Understanding the Question
Understanding the Answer
Understanding What the Answer Demands

6. Will Only Those in the Church of Christ Be Saved?
Understanding the Question
Understanding the Answer
Understanding What the Answer Demands

7. I. Understanding The Question
Why it is asked:
Denominational view

8. Denominationalism God’s People (The Saved) Christ Adventist Presb.
Nazarene
Catholic
Ch. Of God
Ch. Of
Christ
Methodist
Baptist

9. I. Understanding The Question
Why it is asked:
Denominational view
Prejudice
Ignorance
What it does:
Puts you in a dilemma

10. The Dilemma If Say “No” If Say “Yes” Hard to harmonize
with what you teach
Not the truth!
If Say “Yes”
Person is “turned
off” to further
teaching
“Confirms” their
Prejudice

11. I. Understanding The Question
Why it is asked:
Denominational view
Prejudice
Ignorance
What it does:
Puts you in a dilemma
Charges us with narrow-mindedness
Creates prejudice

12. Will Only Those in the Church of Christ Be Saved?
Understanding the Question
Understanding the Answer
Understanding What the Answer Demands

13. II. Understanding The Answer
Church Defined
People
Who Are Saved

14. Church = Men & Women Acts 8:3
As for Saul, he made havoc of the church, entering every house, and dragging off men and women, committing them to prison.

15. II. Understanding The Answer
Church Defined
People
Who Are Saved
Acts 2:47
Church = Ekklesia

16. Those Who have been called out:
Church (Gk: Ekklesia)
Out of
To call
Those Who have been called out:
By the Gospel (2 Thess. 2:14)
Out of sin into salvation (Eph. 2)
Out of darkness into light (1 Pet. 2:9)

17. II. Understanding The Answer
Church Defined
People
Who Are Saved
Acts 2:47
Church = Ekklesia
Eph. 2:16
Eph. 5:23
Acts 11:20-ff

18. Acts 11 Heard “preaching the Lord Jesus Received the grace of God
Believed &
turned to
Lord
Church
Christians
Disciples

19. II. Understanding The Answer
Church Defined
People
Who Are Saved
Acts 2:47
Church = Ekklesia
Eph. 2:16
Eph. 5:23
Acts 11:20-ff
Terms of entrance - Same

20. II. Understanding The Answer
Church Defined
One Church

21. Jesus Only Promised One Church
Matt 16:18
And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.
Church = Singular in number

22. There is Just One Church
“There is one body”
(Eph. 4:4)
Body = Church
(Eph. 1:22-23)
Thus: One Church

23. Bible is Silent about Churches
There Is No Passage
That Says Anything
About
Churches or
Denominations
If The Bible Is Silent
Then, It Is Not
The Will of God
1 Pet. 4:11
Heb. 7:14
2 Tim. 4:1-2
If Churches Are In The
Bible,
Where is passage?

24. II. Understanding The Answer
Church Defined
One Church
Denominationalism is Wrong

25. Denominationalism $ 1 $ 5 $ 10 $ 20 $ 50 $ 100 Defined: Illustrated:
“The act of naming. 2. A name; designation. 3. The name of a class of group; classificaton” (AHD, 381)
Illustrated:
$ 1
$ 5
$ 10
$ 20
$ 50
$ 100
Division
One is as good as another
No wrong choices

26. Denominationalism God’s People (The Saved) Division
Adventist
Presb.
Nazarene
Catholic
Division
One is as good as another
No wrong choices
Ch. Of God
Ch. Of
Christ
Methodist
Baptist

27. Denominationalism is Wrong
Not found in the Bible (1 Pet. 4:11)
Contrary to pleas for unity (John 17:20-21; 1 Cor. 1:10)
It makes a difference what one believes (1 Thess. 2:10-12)
Contrary to idea of “one body” (Eph. 4:4)

28. YES! One must be a member of the Church of Christ to go to Heaven!
II. Understanding The Answer
Church Defined
One Church
Denominationalism is Wrong
God’s Way is Narrow
Parallel Question
YES! One must be a member of the Church of Christ to go to Heaven!

29. Will Only Those in the Church of Christ Be Saved?
Understanding the Question
Understanding the Answer
Understanding What the Answer Demands

30. That you be in the church of Christ
III. Understanding What
The Answer Demands
That you be in the church of Christ
to be saved.

31. Finding The Lord’s Church
“One boy is as good as another”
Find a boy that I like
Most popular boy

32. Finding The Lord’s Church
10 Years old
70 lbs
50” tall
Name is Tommy
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Green
Name
Origin
Organization
Work
Doctrine
Practice

33. That you be in the church of Christ That you leave and renounce
III. Understanding What
The Answer Demands
That you be in the church of Christ
to be saved.
That you leave and renounce
denominationalism.

34. Will Only Those in the Church of Christ Be Saved?
Understanding the Question
Understanding the Answer
Understanding What the Answer Demands