It is not easy to convert to Christianity solely because it is confusing and frustrating to extract truth within the religion. Because you have one church over here that is teaching this practice and another church that is teaching the opposite. One church says that item A is sinful and another church says that item A is mandatory. Who is right? Can they both be right? And of course, some people will tell you, “That is good!” for it is good to have variety and just attend the church of your choice. Others will tell you that, “We are going to the same place (Heaven) it is only that we are just on different roads while one may argue that they agree to disagree. I have read the entire Bible 10 times in search of truth. I have prayed several times to God for Him to help me understand His word. I have prayed to Him in spirit and followed His prayer guidelines. When I read the New Testament, I read about only one church. But when I look around today, and I see those who profess Christianity, I see thousands. Now the question is how did we get from one church to thousands? And the answer is…something went severely wrong. But it did not go wrong with God, but went wrong with man for Apostle Paul in his letter to the church of Corinth notes that God is not the author of confusion but of peace.
For one to learn about the church, he does not have to rely only on the Bible, but read thoroughly about the branch of Christian theology called ecclesiology. Ecclesiology is defined as the study of the nature and mission of the church. As indicated before, during the first century there existed only one church established by Jesus Christ and recognised by God but after 21 centuries, there are thousands of man-made churches misleading the entire human race. In this masterpiece, we learn about the Church of Jesus Christ and later on we learn about all cults, sects, schisms and all man-made churches (denominations) starting with the Catholic Church, Lutheran Church, Seventh - day Adventist, Mormon Church, African Independent churches and African charismatic churches.
