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Perhaps no statement has been made by religious people more often than this. On every hand, from the pulpit and in the pew, you will hear the statement: "One church is as good as another; so it makes no difference which one you belong to."

Maybe you have said this over and over; and you have heard your preacher preach it all of your life. Then it must be something that both you and he are interested in, and you should want to know just where the Bible makes the statement. I am not asking too much when I ask you to ask your preacher about it, am I? That is what your preacher is for - to tell you where you can find in the Bible the things he preaches. So why not use him? I expect my brethren to use me in this way. And they feel free to make such demands of me.

In Eph. 4:4, I find recorded this statement: "There is one body, and one Spirit, even as we are called in one hope of your calling." This passage plainly says: "There is one body." Yet in the face of it we have hundreds of conflicting religious bodies in the world. Well, one body can't mean two hundred bodies. But what does Paul mean by the one body?

In Eph. 1:22, 23 he said: "And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the church, which is his body." So the body is the church. But Paul says there is "one body." Furthermore, when Jesus promised to build the church, he said: "Upon this rock I will build my church." Matt. 16:18.

He did not say: "upon this rock I will build my churches." He mentioned only one -"my church" not churches, If the Lord built but one, and he certainly did for that is all he promised to build, then somebody else must have built all the others. And are we ready to say that any church that man built is as good as the one the Lord built? This is what we will have to say if we contend that one church is as good as another. In Col. 1:18 Paul also declared: "He is the head of the body, the church." Look at this passage in your Bible - Col. 1:18 - and see just what it says.

I don't want you to take my word for it, but it will certainly be all right for you to read it yourself and take just what it says. Now, does it say, "He is the head of the BODIES the CHURCHES?"

It does not read that way in your book, does it? But it says: "He is the head of the body, the church." There is the same number of bodies there is of heads. How many heads? He is THE HEAD. That means just one head, doesn't it?

All right. "He is the head of the body, the church." So there is one head, one body, one church. And since Jesus is the head of only one. somebody else must be the head of every other. Do you believe that a church of which man is the head is as good as the church of which Jesus is the head? You must believe this if you believe that one church is as good as another.

I do not believe that I could found a church that would be as good as the one founded by Jesus, but I believe I could come as near doing that as any other uninspired man. But no uninspired man, or even inspired man, could do that. Jesus died that he might establish his church - he purchased it with his own blood.
If man could establish one just as good, without even dying for it, as the one Jesus purchased with his blood, then Jesus died in vain. This would give man more power than the Lord had.

So if your preacher has been telling you that one church is as good as another, just ask him for the scripture that says so. And while he is finding that for you, you might ask him how many churches are mentioned in the New Testament, anyway.

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