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Originally Posted by Evangelical
Hi Nell,
The church is not an organization but the Body of Christ. The church is just Christ. The gates of hell can prevail against man -made organizations but not the true church. The true church is that which is made of living stones by God and not human hands, and is none other than Christ himself who is the only one who can prevail against the gates of hell. If we have a vision of the church we will see that Christians are already united spiritually in the one church, the body of Christ. To make any sort of distinctions between Christians is to exercise a sectarian and divisive spirit.
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E,
I believe I just said most of that. Except for the part about distinctions between/among Christians being sectarian and divisive...a hallmark of Witness Lee.
N