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Originally Posted by Evangelical
No they should be called the church in New York. To do what you described is compromise.
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Thank you for a fair and honest assessment.
So, let me ask you a question:
If we compromise about "One God and Father of all" would that mean that we were no longer on the ground of the church?
If we compromised about "one Lord" would that mean we were no longer on the ground of the church?
How about if we compromised about "one faith"?
Yes, the ground of the church is a very important aspect of the church according to typology. The reality of that typology is the 7 ones in Ephesians 4, not the name that you find in the phone book for a Christian meeting.
Jesus is Lord of all. Why can't He authorize more than one meeting? I teach at a high school with 40 teachers. I am involved in a number of different meetings each week. I have a content meeting, a grade team meeting, I meet with the principal each week with all the content team leaders, I am mentoring a new teacher with several meetings a week and I am on the accreditation committee and we also meet twice a month. On top of this I attend the PTA meeting each month. In addition to this there are many other meetings at the school that I don't attend. This is for a community of 500 people. If Jesus is Lord and you have a city of 500,000, isn't it reasonable that there would be 1,000 times as many meetings, all with different names?