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Originally Posted by Matt
Final Question: Did you or did you not give your allegiance to the "the vision of the church" or "christ and the church" (intentionally or unintentionally)? If I didn't get it quite right, please tell me what you did give your allegiance to. Can you honestly say that you only gave your allegiance to Christ? This is what I am talking about. Right now, I'm asking about you. After you answer this, then begin to ask yourself who did not do this?
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Matt, what does this mean: "
give your allegiance"? Please provide some level of detail so that I can answer adequately. Obviously this question is not a simple one, and is potentially "loaded" to say the least.
Hope has already mentioned some scriptures, and I can think of others that had an impact upon me. Maybe it would be wise to differentiate what is "healthy" allegiance and what is "unhealthy" allegiance.
Those Christians, whom I have known over the years, who claimed to only have "allegiance" to Christ, were immature loners, prideful and judgmental. Some had been burnt pretty badly by religion, and could see hypocrisy in every church, hence would never commit themselves to anything.
Btw, what did you think about my earlier comments on idolatry?