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Originally Posted by Nell
A descriptive text tells us what was done.
A prescriptive text is instructional and tells us what we must do.
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There was a reason Christians met as one church per city for 1000 or so years. It was not because the Bible told them how to do it. It was because that's how Christ established the practical administration of the church. It is wrong to think that we can reject everything that is not a prescriptive command, and that descriptive text does not have to be followed. There are a number of things that Christians do because of what was done, rather than what was instructed. In fact, many Christians do things that are neither prescriptive or descriptive texts in the Bible - celebrating Christmas and Easter for example.