It is only in close fellowship that there can be a creative frankness. As Christians we appeal to the nations to keep the doors open and to continue talking with one another. We must practise what we preach. Differences are settled in fellowship, not out of fellowship. We are all conditioned by the group which provides the medium of our development.
Denominationalism is such a conditioning medium.
For all that different people find their final authority in the Bible their understanding is conditioned by their different denominations. Under such conditioning and in isolation our insights are partial. Denominationalism is self-perpetuating. We shall move in parallel grooves unless there are some cross currents, in the fellowship of confrontation. In studying and searching together, and in the exchange of our various ideas there is the possibility of being delivered from our conditioned prejudices and partialities into the fulness of truth.