Tag: catholicity

  • Brand Ambassador or Christ’s Ambassador?

    Brand Ambassador or Christ’s Ambassador?

    Is a pastor a brand ambassador? Christ calls every pastor to a specific work in a specific church. God calls him to minister to a local body, to serve as the shepherd to a definite membership roll. In the apostolic era, the name of your church simply matched its geographical location. We have letters to…

  • Right Doctrine and the Function of Denominations

    Right Doctrine and the Function of Denominations

    There is a place, then, for faithful denominations to emphasize and debate their differences. Those differences matter. We should be equally vocal, however, about what we call the “catholicity” of the church. In the Apostles’ Creed, we confess, “I believe in the holy catholic church.” Catholic, in this sense, means universal. There is one and…