Denomination Conflicts

Reading many threads regarding denomination issues. In my view, Doctrine of Church is often interpreted as bigotry by the fear-ridden statements and this misunderstanding will get Christians into trouble. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is for all who wants to know and find the truth through Him. As long as we remain in this twisted world, the Church will have her own problems and in reality as history shows, we cannot escape them. God would rather see us accept the problems as opportunities to exercise our spiritual virtues. We the Church can turn problems into useful spiritual growth for the purification and rejoice that we are permitted to suffer with our Lord. It is always easier to bear what we know someone has successfully the trials before us that we can learn from them. Have we not learned? Perhaps part of the problem lies in our emphasis on Church traditions rather than in Christlike living as revealed through the Word of God. Does a Church resemble toddler's playpen rather than groups of maturing spiritual leaders who are forgetting what is truth and straining on toward what is ahead? 'My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.' (John 17:20–21). Jesus prayed for the unity of believers. Church labels may differ; faith expression vary; biblical interpretation be less than harmonious. Allow the Holy Spirit convict our hearts to follow Jesus Christ regardless what denomination we belong to. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.( John 3:7). The Holy Spirit allows us to convict us and sense spiritual concerns. These are spiritual matters about which we must be legitimately honest and in which we must seek the discernment of the Holy Spirit. These are things about which we cannot afford to be wrong; to be wrong is still to be lost and far from God. Let us never forget that the Word of God stresses the importance of conviction and concern and repentance when it comes to conversion, spiritual regeneration, being born from above by the Spirit of God. Many did say, "What must I do?" but the Pharisees never did. They never got under conviction, and blindly battled with Christ regarding their traditions as truth. They were so self-righteous that they cannot get under conviction simply because they were blindly following their traditions.