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Originally Posted by OBW
So you think that whether or not denominations are the best way to do things, or even wrong, and since there is a serious question as to whether the LCM is nothing less than another denomination, would you agree that refusing to at least try to be one with all these others would be your problem (or my problem to the extent that I am the one looking for bases to cut off fellowship) rather than simply theirs?
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You are confusing fellowship with joining in the idolatrous practices. Fellowship happens in the homes, on the streets, on the buses, in the parks. The LC seeks fellowship with others and often does fellowship with those outside, but this does not mean we will attend a Catholic church service.
Smyrna, Thyatira, Sardis, are still real churches, they are not denominations. We do not refuse the real churches, in any condition, we just refuse the fake ones, in whatever condition.. Jesus did not even acknowledge any sects or divisions that may have been within those city churches. Jesus does not recognize any denominations today. He does not give a message to the Catholics and another to the Lutherans, he just speaks to the one church per city.