The New Testament always refers to the Church at Ephesus or the Church at Corinth. Denominations were unknown. Somewhere along the line this disappeared and each city and town had multiple Christian churches of various denominational stripes. The Church of Buenos Aires, however, is marching back to the future, focusing on being one not just in name, but in fact.
Almost half of the 350 churches in the capital of Argentina have banded together in the Buenos Aires Council and it is not just the typical once-a-month luncheon and then everybody goes their own way operation. For example, one church was about to close because it could not pay a $25,000 debt. The other churches passed the hat and in two days the debt was paid. When an Anglican church had to close its Sunday school program for lack of volunteers, other churches sent in their people to save the day. Joint evangelism programs are underway to evangelize the city for Christ. These are but a few of the examples of what is happening and it is very impressive!
It worked in the early Church. It's working now in Buenos Aires. It might be interesting to give it a shot here. Just a thought.
www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2010/june/25.38.html
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