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Old 07-26-2011, 04:08 AM   #35
rayliotta
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Default Re: Local Church Double-Speak

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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah View Post
True. I see one valid way that an elder should direct the meetings of the church is to create an environment where the saints can grow and mature in the exercise of their gifts. Say what you like about them, but when I was in Houston RG, KR, and EM were also there as young brothers. Some may know Clem R, an elder, preceded my by only a year or two. There were many saints that came out of a relatively small church of 200 saints to become gifted members of the Body. So that environment where it was a given that in any meeting "all could prophesy" (though it was also a given that "all could be rebuked", "all could be chastened", etc.) is the same environment that many gifted brothers and sisters came out of.
Funny how "gifted" seems to coincide with "steadfastly toes the party line"...
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