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Originally Posted by awareness
First: A BIG WELCOME bro InOmnibusCaritas
Second: While I deeply appreciate your Biblical exegesis of "church" and "churches" I can't help, when stepping back and taking an objective look, at this notion that: "we've got to get the church back to its early pre-tainted-Acts days" it looks ever more Cargo Cultish. It's reverse engineering the church hoping to bring "the cargo," or in this case, God's blessings. But who said this is so? Where is it said in the Bible for us to do that today, in order to get Gods' blessings? Does God really care about the ground of the assembly? Wouldn't God care more about the assembly itself, regardless of what dirt they stood on? |
I am not at all suggesting that we must return to NT form of church government. Nor am I advocating for a reformulation of the "one true church". I am now a youth pastor in a Methodist church.
But I was asked on whether Acts 9:31 and 16:5 refute Nee's local church model. So I looked it up and reported my findings: they don't. I'm happy to look at other verses.
What I do hope to do is to engage in a dispassionate and scholarly review of Leeism. It is hard to suppress deep-seated misgivings so I've not participated in this forum for 9 years. But now that I've resettled in my new congregation and ministry, I want to see if I'm able to lay the ghost to rest and help others do so.