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Originally Posted by awareness
What's so hard about keeping what is already provided?
The body of Christ is joined spiritually. It's doesn't depend upon geography. We don't have to stand shoulder to shoulder to keep that kind of oneness, nor sit next to each other on the same geography.
It also don't depend upon emotional, psychological, or social connections. The body of Christ is joined spiritually. We don't and can't do anything to create it, or sustain it. All we have to do to "keep it" is to realize the reality of it that's already done and accomplished. All else is just silly seeking of outward showing, and human organization.
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The church is the ekklesia or called out ones.. spoken of by Jesus in John chapter 10..
The sheep pens are holding tanks for those still drunk on the cares of this world..
The church in the pasture(Ps 23)... are those that "came out" of the sheep pens..
For Jesus calls them out of the sheep pen to graze in the pasture (metaphorically)..
Jesus never despised denominations or warned against them..
Jesus was a "genius".. setting up a self-selecting mechanizm for sorting out the drunks..
For churchs are drunk tanks.. with many kinds and degrees of intoxication..
All church members self-select themselves.. God does not "do it"...
All kinds of sheep pens from Baptists to Boy Scouts to Synagogues..
Even the Moose Hall may be a kind of "church"...
Eventually some sober up and come out of those darned old sheep pens..
It must be smelly and nasty in them places.. it certainly was for me..
So God opened my eyes -or- I sobered up.. drunks don't get along well with
the sober ones well... some are ejected.. Its genius I tell ya.. the churches..
The pasture is much more peaceful and the sheep feed themselves no need
of a pastor feeding them.. You know, like real sheep do.. i.e. feed themselves..