One Lord, one faith, one baptism
“One Lord, one faith, one baptism” (Ephesians 4:5)
Someone once said that those who adhere to religious pluralism are in hell.
Religious pluralism arises because their own salvation is inaccurate.
Furthermore, those who make Christian ethical practice a key agenda for church reform don't truly understand what salvation is.
Those who criticize offerings in churches are like the leftists in the real church.
These people have banded together and are now blatantly claiming to be reforming churches and creating good or healthy churches.
The reason they always stand on the left is because they haven't yet been united with Christ and have not been given God's value.
If they receive talents through Christ, they unknowingly become messengers who share what they have.
Their constitution changes.
Therefore, if they are under death, under God's curse, they become religious pluralists and leftists who criticize and divide the church.
They don't understand the value of the true church.
There is one body of Christ, one Spirit, and one hope in the Lord (Ephesians 4:4).
There is no room for religious pluralism or church renewal.
There is only one church.
By understanding the truth through the teaching and reminders of the Holy Spirit in Christ, we keep the new covenant that has united us with Christ, and thus receive the Father's love and experience Christ's manifesting (John 14:21).
However, faith that hopes for the things from God rather than for God Himself becomes an indirect end, not a direct end, but a transaction of substitution.
This leads to the level of pluralism, and calls for respect for one another's faith.
However, the Bible states that there is only one Lord, one faith, and one baptism.
Furthermore, there is only one God (Ephesians 4:6), and there is only one way to God (John 14:6).
By the grace of the redemption accomplished through our Lord Jesus Christ on the cross, God has transferred us into Christ and sent the Holy Spirit of truth to make us one body with Christ.
Therefore, although our bodies are dead because of sin, our Spirits, called in Christ, worship and praise God with the grace and truth in Christ.
By worshipping truly in the Spirit of truth, the words heard are connected and embodied.
Faith becomes life, and life becomes faith.
The problem is that although we claim to believe in Jesus, we are not the body of Christ, so we cannot enter the way. Instead, we stand on various ways. Therefore, the manifestation of the Holy Spirit takes on various forms and does not unite.
This is truly a hundred schools of thought contending.
This is pluralism itself.
The Holy Spirit is one, and the baptism that receives the gift of the Holy Spirit is one.
We are united with Christ's death on the cross and his being raised , dying with Christ and being raised with him, attaining righteousness in Christ and being filled with the Holy Spirit's indwelling work.
Therefore, the faith that receives the Spirit of truth, which makes us one with the Lord who ascended above all heavens and fills all things (Eph. 4:10), does not recognize any other faith or baptism.
We come to understand that there is only one way: through Christ, we can reach and continue to reach the Father, the Father of all, who unites all and is in all.
Naturally, through the fullness of grace and truth in Christ, we become righteous people who serve others with what we have within and give to others with our material possessions.
We are united with Christ through the Spirit of truth and connect the Father of all who fills the infinite universe. By calling on the name of the Lord in faith, we receive and receive again from His fullness (John 1:16).
Written by Ptr. Yohan Kim
Translated by missionary Nancy Kim
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