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Is Mark 9: 38-41 talking about protestant/orthodox churches and another Christian denominations?
How about another religion? Is it safe to assume that they are worshiping the same GOD as us, just with another method?
 
You don’t have to be Catholic to get to Heaven (but why wouldn’t you want to get all the Grace Jesus has to offer through His Church) but everybody in Heaven is Catholic.

Jesus specified ‘those that do mighty works in my name’ so yes same God. But nothing in that verse says we don’t continue to evangelize those to the fullness of the Truth and Faith which is found in the Church that Jesus founded, the Catholic Church.
 
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He was addressing an individual. “Churches” are spoken of in Acts and in the Epistles and Revelation. But - they were united in doctrine, as there is but one faith, one baptism, one Lord of all (Ephesians 4:4-6).

As to “denominations” our Lord spoke of false teachers and Saint Paul wrote of “factions.”
 
Then, can anyone explain about that passage? In our current time, what can be assumed as the “person outside of Jesus’ follower who successfully drive devils out, because Jesus acknowledged him/her”?
 
There are a couple of important qualifiers here. The first is ‘because he was not following us‘. What exactly does that mean? The second is ‘whoever is not against us is for us’. A lot of people who say they are Christians are specifically against the Catholic Church. It would seem to me they are against us.
 
It also seems to me that the passage implies a literal physical following of Jesus and his disciples. Obviously they followed Jesus in other sense of the word. So I agree with you that this can’t be about other religions.
 
It seems to me that keeping in mind John 10:16 would apply here.

" And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd."

Applying both together, would seem to suggest that there are people who follow Christ, but they are “not of this fold”. However Jesus wants to bring them also completely so that there is “one fold”. The Good Shepherd doesn’t leave the sheep wandering around, he calls to them and they hear his voice and come to merge into the one fold.
 
“You don’t have to be Catholic to get to Heaven”

That is both misleading and false. Jesus Christ revealed to us that to get to Heaven we must eat His flesh and drink His blood, otherwise we have no life in us. The Catholic Church is absolutely necessary for salvation. While the leading thought of today is that salvation is possible outside of the Catholic Church, it is certainly not a teaching. The Church holds out hope that “maybe” due to God’s justice and mercy, such a thing is possible. But it is very wrong to say that with certainty. If the Catholic Church truly believed that salvation was found outside the Church there’d be no need to send missionaries out to the ends of the Earth and baptizing all nations in the Name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

I’m not advocating for Feeneyism (sp). I’m just wanting to draw an important distinction that the belief in the possibility of salvation outside the Catholic Church is just wishful thinking on the Church’s part. I’m not saying it’s not possible or that it doesn’t happen. God is certainly not limited by the rules He Himself makes. But from what “is” revealed to us, salvation is possibly only through Christ’s One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church.

Contemporary theologians like to muddy the waters and create as much gray area as possible by arguing what is meant by Catholic? Does this include those who are validly baptized but deny the teachings of the Church, including the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist? They say yes. The Church says no, but we can hope that God’s mercy will make exception.
 
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