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Originally Posted by Admin
Yet we must be clear that, if we do choose to go our own way in this matter, we will pay a great price in terms of our following the Lord, our fellowship with Him, and our service unto Him. To have the church is the desire of God’s heart; it is His eternal purpose (Eph. 3:8-11), and it is what Christ gave Himself up for (Eph. 5:25). Thus, if we forsake the church to take the way of the sects, our ability to touch what is on the Lord’s heart will, of necessity, be severely limited.
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A polemic about the "ground". Seriously?
I thought people like David who left the LC would eventually have the growth and spiritual insight to understand that God does not tie himself to the doctrine of dirt. In Rev 2-3 was the Lord concerned with "the ground" or the condition of the churches? He would take away their lampstands based on what? The ground "teaching"? I think not. How long they went on "meeting on the ground" without being a lampstand is a good question don't you think?
Tying a persons spiritual growth, maturity service, etc. to their acceptance of the ground "teaching" is undisciplined and wildly speculative exposition of the NT and indicates either an ignorance or willful ignoring of history. Andrew Murray, AB Simpson, AW Tozer, G. Campbell Morgan, Hudson Taylor, George Muller, Charles Spurgeon to mention a few were all in so called "sects" and yet the Lord greatly used them as instruments in their generations.