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Originally Posted by Evangelical
How could the early church be salt and light to the world without practical oneness? How can the church be salt and light to the world without practical oneness?
This is what you and ZNPaaneah don't understand. The church is not about you, and not about you having a chit chat about the bible over coffee. It's actually meant to accomplish something and you cannot accomplish that by 1000 churches in one city, by scattered groups of two or three.
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First, the fact that you ask how the church can be salt and light without practical oneness is to ask a question for which you have decided that the answer is to have your kind of oneness and to declare that anything else is not oneness no matter how truly "one" it is.
The world see us as one. They understand that there are differences of thought on things. But they treat Christians as Christians.
And what is it that the church is supposed to accomplish that 1,000 churches in a city cannot accomplish? Name one actual thing that requires lockstep unity with the errors of Lee just because he and Nee dreamed up a doctrine that allowed the world to define the church according to its political boundaries. What can those 1,000 churches not do?
And what it is meant to accomplish is quite significant. But