Perhaps... but 'won' what? These churches are hemorrhaging members. They will surely die on the vine as their congregants leave for greener pastures. And it is no coincidence that the fastest growing churches are the non-denominational spirit-filled variety that have no 'confession', but are only and very insistently Bible concentric.
The smaller churches with a congregational structure tend to be more adept at removing heresies by utter collapse. It is the hierarchical churches, which by their hierarchy, are able to absorb heretical doctrine and survive it for a longer period of time... And the more hierarchical, the more likely one is to find institutionalized forms of those very things, because the hierarchy becomes inured to admitting their error.
And the cost of bureaucracy ALWAYS leads to concession. Gotta get them butts in the pews and get them wallets to open up... And so, a compromise in doctrine becomes inevitable.
> Perhaps... but ‘won’ what?
Agreed. But still....
“non-denominational spirit-filled variety that have no ‘confession’, but are only and very insistently Bible concentric”
No Nicene Creed?
“very insistently Bible concentric”,
So what’s stopping them from accepting one sans Romans 1?
“The smaller churches with a congregational structure tend to be more adept at removing heresies by utter collapse”
Nonsense. The congregationalists have no formal structure and they are on this list along with the UMC, Episcopalians, etc.
I'm sorry, but that's incorrect -- I believe that the Mormons and Oneness Pentecostals and Jehovah's Witnesses are the fastest growing.