The problem with 'Non-Denominational' churches

Find a church in a historic denomination:

[pedroguimaraes]

Great video. Historical Protestantism always believed that the church should be rooted in the historic catholic (universal) Church. The ones who disagreed were the Anabaptist / restautarionists, who were rejected by the reformers.

[asherlito]

The rise of non denominational churches rose from the failure of the mainline and traditional churches.

[Flame]

Bro just made the argument for the “one true church” doctrine without realising it.

[levitheworst]

This basically was an unintentional Roman Catholic propaganda 💀

[timsmith]

I am a Non-Denominational Christian. I would like to put my church to the test of this video.
1) Does my church have accountability? Yes. It operates in a similar way to the three branches of government in the US. We have a Pastoral Staff, Elder Team, and Deacon Team. These three teams keep one another accountable. It might not be the same model of accountability in a Denomination but that doesn't mean it isn't accountability.
2) Does my church have tradition? Yes. We care deeply about Baptism. We celebrate Communion at least monthly. We hold a strong view of marriage (which is a sacrament in some traditions). We agree with the Apostle's Creed even if we don''t read it during service. We of course celebrate Christmas & Easter and have our own yearly traditions focused on Prayer, Reading of Scripture, Worship, and Service. We even have some Traditions that our friends from the Messianic Jewish tradition lead us in.
3) Does my church have resources? Yes. My church is not a Mega Church but these days it is certainly on the larger side. It probably has more resources then any other church in the community besides a Mega Church not to far away. And we share these resources with churches who are part of different denominations. We are also connected to a number of universities even if we don't own them.
4) Does my church have impact? Well we certainly do in our own local community. We support dozens of different Local Non-Profits and lead a Multi Denominational Mission Week each summer we call One Kingdom. That mission week does project in every town within our county. Plus we support a number of missionaries serving oversees.
5) So is my church unbliblcal, lacking unity, or refusing to share resources? I would have a strong no.

[GabrielPereira-hmcz]

Using the same logic you should be catholic. You can't just say: my split is okay, but the smaller ones are not.

[onesqueazyboi]

But Zoomer, I was predestined to be non-denominational

[ogshotcallerz]

Bro just no, I left a denominational church because of the tradition it got in the way of teaching Christ. I go to a non-denominational church and the ability they have to collaborate and reach into communities is insane. God works in mysterious ways but this one isn’t it.

[buckshot]

I give Zoomer 6 months before his video about why he's converting to Catholicism.

[Gunblastz]

The argument that non-denominational churches lack unity extends to denominational churches too. By categorizing yourself as a denomination, you arbitrarily restrict yourself to working only within that organization. Why don't we see inter-denominational projects? How cool would it be to see all the churches in the city we live in get together, have a meal, pray for the city, care for the homeless, and preach the gospel? If all the denominations stopped arguing about their differences for once and mobilized as one body - especially in our ever-increasing polarized world, I imagine we would be unstoppable.

[Whispn]

I’ve never been around nondenominational churches that haven’t been connected with other churches or with organized, global networks of other non-denominational pastors. I’m sure there are some, but overall they’re very connected. The upside of nondenominational churches is that they unite beliefs between “mainline” denominations. For example, a lot of nondenominational churches are like a mix of Baptist and Pentecostal (not all of them. Many have a different mix of theologies. I use this one for the sake of making my point).
Also, nondenominationals do create schools and largescale charity programs. There is no glory in being the ones that created “highly rated” universities when those universities have been totally warped and taken over by anti-Christian ideologies as they have today. The same can be said about hospitals that are now mutilating people in the name of gender ideology.

If you take your arguement to its conclusion, then we should just get rid of denominations altogether and form one united denomination. But that isn’t going to happen. Theres nothing wrong with nondenominationals. Instead of worrying about what denomination someone is, we should all work together as Christians in the world, united despite our denominational (or lack thereof) differences.

[Lazymotion]

This is the hardest I've seen Redeemed Zoomer get ratioed.

[bamf]

Wrong on most points. also "my church is rich and yours is poor make your chuch unbiblical" is a rough argument

[JeyBerg]

I’m non denominational and all you did in this video was make an argument for the Catholic or Orthodox Church. Did you seriously think this one through?

[ilduce]

Redeemed zommer is becoming catholic without realizing it

[tristanstevenson]

Good thing those mainline churches founded our prestigious universities. Why don't we check on them and see how they're doing now...

[philc.]

Baptist here. Your argument is really against congregational polity, which is a perfectly valid point of disagreement within Christianity and not deserving of the conclusions you reach. If an individual non-dom church is unbiblical in its teaching, of course it should be condemned - but saying the existence of them as a group is unbiblical is simply false

[FieryHornet]

POV: you click on a redeemed zoomed video just to look at the comments

[gabewillis]

I think your head is in the clouds a bit too much with this one. Just because non-denominational churches are not taking over the world, founding highly-rated universities, and other things you describe as having a "huge impact" does not mean that they are not having an impact for the Kingdom of God in their own respective spheres.

I do agree that denominations are a good way to organize for the reasons you mentioned, but a lot of your argument relies upon "most nondenominational churches" as I heard over and over, which seems to be an argument based on what is practiced most frequently rather than what could actually be done in a non-denominational church.

[Jerome]

In this video:
Zoomer steps in the wrong hole and falls right in. Find out if he makes it out next time on Dragon Ball Z!