"Hyphenated" Christians

   I find it more and more difficult to swallow the wide variety of Christianity that I see in America today.

   You know what I am talking about, Willis.  In case you are blind to the divide and conquer strategy orchestrated by Slew Foot, permit me to provide a brief list of some of the Heinz 57 flavors on display.

   Fundamentalist Christians, Liberal Christians, Social Justice Christians, Pentecostal Christians, Charismatic Christians, Orthodox Christians, Red Letter Christians, Apostolic Christians, Bible-Believing Christians, Lutheran Christians, Baptist Christians, Southern Baptist Christians, Free-Will Baptist Christians, First Baptist Christians, Second Baptist Christians, Primitive Baptist Christians, Methodist Christians, African Methodist Episcopal Christians, Presbyterian Christians…you get the drift.

   According to my research there are nearly 34,000 denominations of Christianity in the world with nearly 2.5 BILLION adherents.  Nearly 75% of American’s self-identify as Christians…that is 280 million souls, spread out over 300,000 churches.

   Did you know that “DENOMINATION” is a math term?  If you think back to your time spent in the 2nd grade you will remember that a “denominator” is the number by which the “whole” is divided.  Numerator and denominator.  Jesus said that H ...

Want to read more?

Subscribe today!

Learn how to email this article to others