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Originally Posted by Ohio
What's even more egregious than the demand for a single meeting place is the requirement for one presbytery per city.
Imagine one eldership in NYC. How useless they would be.
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True, but imagine that the presbytery in NYC were one. That is according to the truth. In 2000 and 2001 we organized a memorial for Christians being killed in Sudan as a result of the spread of Sharia law into Sudan. We held it outside of the UN and we coordinated with as many other congregations as possible. Much of our fellowship was on how to organize so that this would be something that all could be one with. So although we donated over $20,000 for the event we went to pains to keep the name of our congregation from ever being mentioned (there were radio and tv interviews). We realized that if it had the appearance of promoting a single congregation that could affect the oneness.
It is completely unworkable and outrageous for the LRC or any other group to say "we are the legitimate eldership in this city, to be a genuine church you have to be one with our elders". That is an affront to the Lord Jesus.
However, it is quite workable to say that the Bible is the legitimate authority in this city. If you are one with the Bible and we are one with the Bible, why can't we both be one?