We need to ask ourselves ‘If the Holy Spirit speaks today, will our denominational leanings hinder our acceptance of the teachings given?” There is a popular Christian song with the words “The Spirit won’t be hindered by division, in the perfect work which Jesus has begun.” Well the experiences of Jesus speaking to the religious people as recorded in the gospels, they show what happens when Jesus’ teachings and words full of the Holy Spirit meet with denominational and sectarian biases. It gets nasty. Someone gets hurt. Eventually Jesus got hurt. Later they all got hurt when the Romans came and wiped the floor with them, because God didn’t like what they did to His only-begotten Son.
