You are a member of the ABC denomination, a Reformed church. Sadly, a group of men whom you consider friends and brothers has decided to leave ABC and form QRS Church, a new Reformed denomination.
What is your attitude towards QRS? Does it matter whether the new QRS denomination are friendly, neutral, or hostile to your ABC church? I am mainly speaking about the "larger" church's attitude, though depending, it may of course affect relations between individual men in those churches.
Or is it simply a matter of the doctrinal differences between ABC and QRS? For example, if the reasons QRS formed a new church are invalid, or if their doctrine is now in error, would you then *not* consider QRS to be a true church?
What is your attitude towards QRS? Does it matter whether the new QRS denomination are friendly, neutral, or hostile to your ABC church? I am mainly speaking about the "larger" church's attitude, though depending, it may of course affect relations between individual men in those churches.
Or is it simply a matter of the doctrinal differences between ABC and QRS? For example, if the reasons QRS formed a new church are invalid, or if their doctrine is now in error, would you then *not* consider QRS to be a true church?