Personal preference or salvation issue?

With the growing number of Protestant denominations, I felt it necessary to address the differences to try to find some common ground. Methodist, Baptist, Church of Christ, Church of God, Calvanists, JW's and Espicopalians.....

So many church sects that all claim to go only by scripture and they condemn other Christian churches. Is is misinterpretation? Or is it simply a matter of personal preference?

I grew up in a conservative Church of Christ. In our church, it was pretty much sinful to have musical instruments in church services. But scripture does not say that we cannot have musical instruments. While scripture DOES tell us to have orderly services (1 Corinthians 14:26-40), it also tells us in the Psalms to praise Him with the harps, trumpets, horns, lute, timbrel, and cymbals (Psalm 98:5, 144:9 and 150:9). This is a perfect example of personal preference and is not a salvation issue. Meaning that a person's salvation is not based on whether or not there are instruments in the church.

Some churches dispute how often communion (Or the Lords Supper) should be taken. The amount of times a person partakes in communion is another example of personal preference. In speaking of communion, our Lord Jesus Christ says " Do this in remembrance of Me", Luke 22:19. In 1 Corinthians 11:24, we see that Christ says "This do, as often as you drink it (referring to the wine) in remembrance of me. "

So we see that there is no strict timetable that we must obey in reference to communion. It is another matter of personal opinion and NOT a salvation issue.


The point behind this writing to to let please see that these 'differences' between sects are not salvation issues. Yet the feuding continues.