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Originally Posted by Igzy
There is no place in the Bible where we are commissioned to judge whether a group of otherwise good Christians is a church or not. And the act of doing so is against the whole spirit of oneness, tolerance and receiving that the Bible encourages us to embrace among one another.
To me you are straining gnats and swallowing camels. Worrying about names, taking it upon yourself to decide what are churches and what are not and generally being a childish nuisance and pain in the rear.
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Applying your words, to say, the LGBT church in a city (yes ,they exist), is troubling.
I don't think the apostle Paul would see it that way, to went to lengths to preserve the oneness and unity, and wrote against sectarianism and "other names".
Paul's commands for us to judge those in the church also extend to groups of believers, not just individuals. For example, suppose a church called itself the "Satan church", we can judge that to be not Christian. I use extreme examples to make a point - judgement is right and necessary.