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Originally Posted by Igzy
I think believing everyone needs to be following the same set of elders over a whole city is detrimental to receiving the believers in that city. Seems to me we have to also acknowledge that the Lord is working among them in the groups they happen to be in, perhaps in some ways better than our own, even if those groups are not organized the way we'd like.
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Igzy, the idea of a model where there's elders over an entire city-church is impractical. It could only work in a town whether is only one assembly.
I propose in a given city there is (x) number of assemblies. Each assembly have elders only for that specific assembly. All the assemblies collectively are the church in that city. Any given assembly could be Lutheran, Brethren, Baptist, Presbyterian, LSM, or a Community assembly. One key item is the capacity and willingness to receive and acknowledge one another in expressing Christ in that city.
Terry