The Visible Church Was There All Along
By Cindy Beck
“I just can’t be Protestant anymore,” I blurted out one night as my husband and I were driving in the car.
“What?”
“This is just crazy. Every church teaches something different. Every pastor interprets the Bible according to his own personal beliefs. How is anybody supposed to know who’s teaching the truth?”
“Well, all we can do is choose the denomination that’s most faithful to the Bible.”
“So we decide what the Bible means? We decide what’s true? Then the Bible isn’t our final authority – we are.”
“What?”
“This is just crazy. Every church teaches something different. Every pastor interprets the Bible according to his own personal beliefs. How is anybody supposed to know who’s teaching the truth?”
“Well, all we can do is choose the denomination that’s most faithful to the Bible.”
“So we decide what the Bible means? We decide what’s true? Then the Bible isn’t our final authority – we are.”