11-10-2013, 09:33 PM
sanantone Wrote:Thank you for the offer. I haven't done much research on the Mennonites yet, but I did just finish researching the Baptists. There are two major issues I have with Baptists.
1.Closed communions. Only members of the church are offered communion.
2. "Once saved, always saved." They don't believe people can fall from grace.
The Methodists don't hold these stances, but I think I wasn't matched with them because I'm strongly opposed to a hierarchical system. Methodists have the Episcopal system of centralization while Baptists have an independent, congregationalist system.
The Churches of Christ do not believe in closed communions and do not believe in "once saved always saved." They also have independent congregations and don't even have a convention such as some of the Baptists do. Each individual church is autonomous.
I don't know what the future holds, but I know Who holds the future.