Schism

I gather from the leaflet that has just dropped through the letter-box that a new church has been formed. The "Frisby Baptist Church of the Infinitely Deep Furnace" will be holding its meetings in the Primary School at 9am on Sundays. Clearly Joseph has moved quickly.

Under the tyranny of Rome, where two or three disagreed over principles of interpretation one would be told to shut up because the other was a priest (or bishop, or Pope, according to the situation).
In the Methodist or Anglican Church, this kind of theological debate would result in the formation of various committees that would investigate the rights and wrongs, issue the occasional report, and then either come up with a compromise, or decree that everyone was right,  or fall into disuse after no-one could remember what it was all about.
But in an Independent Baptist Church, when this kind of disagreement occurs, somebody simply goes off and founds another congregation.

It makes me proud to be a Protestant.