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Originally Posted by Ohio
I thought I'd throw something into the mix ...
John Myer wrote an interesting little e-booklet called The Momentum of Togetherness after the recent turmoil. |
Right, and it's a good book. John had seen first hand the dark side of groupism. Yet, he still realized that laboring as part of a group was a legitimate and needed Christian experience.
Let me say I completely understand the trepidation about groups felt by
Peter and others. I felt the same thing myself. But when I try to write off groups, I run smack dab into the commandments to assemble together and to be of one mind. Those commandments are arguments for groups, like it or not.
Peter's idea, to divest from the group all works and place them on individuals is artificial and against the way groups naturally work. I'm not saying there should not be freedom for individuals to be creative and work as the Lord leads, or that members need to get permission from leaders for every little thing. I'm saying that it is not wrong in principle for there to be some group efforts. Much of the Lord's work that is getting done these days springs from these.
Is the argument that churches can meet together but not labor together? Or if they labor together it can't be on an effort the church as a group decided on? I'm sorry, I just don't understand that conclusion at all.