A person who was baptized for the forgiveness of his sins so
he could be saved (Mark 16:16), it is then the Lord adds him to His one true
church (Acts 2:47), the
church
of
Christ
where he is to worship God in spirit and in truth (John 4:24).
The Lord only has one true blood-bought church (Acts 20:28) of which
He is going to save. All of the
denominations are fakes and counterfeits, which are designed by Satan to
cause people to lose their souls in Hell.
But there are those who were once faithful members of the Lord’s
one true church who later join a denomination.
Can a Christian, a member of the Lord’s one true church later
become a member of a denomination and be faithful to the Lord and go to
Heaven? Let’s see what the
Bible says.
Members of the Lord’s church who join a denomination “have
condemnation because they have cast off their first faith” (1 Timothy
5:12). “They have forsaken the
right way and gone astray” (2 Peter 2:15).
God’s word says, “Unless the Lord builds the house they labor in
vain who build it” (Psalms 127:1). A
lot of people are laboring in vain in their denominational churches.
Jesus says, “Every plant which My heavenly Father has not planted
will be uprooted” (Matthew 15:13) and “In vain they worship Me, teaching
as doctrines the commandments of men” (Matthew 15:9).
It is vain and sinful to worship in a denominational church.
God’s word says, “Therefore come out from among them and be
separate, says the Lord…and I will receive you” (2 Corinthians 6:17).
A member of the Lord’s church who has gone into a denomination must
repent and come out of it and be a faithful member of the Lord’s church if
he expects to go to Heaven.