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Was there salvation outside the ark? Was there salvation outside the nation of Israel? Will there be salvation outside of the church of Christ? bilingual spanish church in houston to all of these questions, per the Bible, is clearly “no”.

Before your emotions get the best of you, calm yourself down and consider two preliminary points; (1) I grew up in one of the biggest, main-stream denominations in the us – not in the church of Christ, therefore i can speak directly to this matter. What I’m going to share with you comes from years of personal study, debating, argumentation, and absolute have a problem with proven fact that salvation is in only one church. (2) Jesus said in Matthew 22:29, “Ye do err, being unsure of the scriptures, nor the energy of God.” Many “religious” folks have formed their ideas about salvation on their own opinions, pre-conceptions, and statements that they’ve heard over and over since they’ve been children (as opposed to the Bible).

The Bible says that there is no salvation found outside the church of Christ. The Apostle Paul said in Colossians 1:18 that Jesus may be the head of your body, the church. Your body and the church are one in the same. Paul told the Ephesians, in Ephesians 5:25, “…even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it.” The church is singular around, and Jesus gave Himself for the church. In Ephesians 5:23, Paul said, “…even as Christ may be the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.” For an individual to say that they can be saved without being a member of the church of Christ reveals their ignorance of the Scripture, because the Apostle Paul says that Christ is the “saviour” of your body, and the body may be the church.

How many “churches” was Paul speaking of? Now watch this; the same Paul told the Ephesians, in 4:4, that there is one body. If your body is the church, as Paul stated, and, as he also stated, that there is only one body, then there’s only one church. A kid can understand why simple Bible teaching.

Although, this begs the question, “Which church may be the one church?” Well, let’s work with a simple example. Martin Luther was a fine man with the noble desire to make contact with the Bible. After Luther’s death, his follower’s established the denomination bearing his name; the Lutheran Church. Now, was this the one church that Paul spoke of in his epistles? How could it possibly be – the Lutheran Church didn’t exist when Paul wrote his epistle. The truth is, the Lutheran Church was established some 1500 years after Paul spoke his inspired words; therefore, it isn’t logical, reasonable, or biblical to conclude that the Lutheran Church is the one church of the Bible, since it simply did not exist in those days (the first century)!