The church grew during its first thousand years from being a small group of individuals to a major religious movement in Palestine that spread its influence through the Middle East, Western and Eastern Europe. The growth in its members grew alongside the growth of an administrative organization. There had always been variation and diversity amongst the churches from the start, and as the power structure in the western churches expanded, the differences amongst the churches …showed first 75 words of 621 total…

…showed last 75 words of 621 total…into the Protestant church because of the Universal Church's misuse of holy sacraments. The reformation was to cleanse the church from its worldliness as the church was focused on worldly issues such as earning money and spending its wealth on luxury, buildings, and arts as well as misusing holy sacraments of the church. The reformation resulted in a great split in the western church which the eastern churches have not experienced till the present date.