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Originally Posted by OBW
I would say that the NT reveals enough to recognize that a Lord's table meeting under the Form that is practiced by those groups would be consistent with what is revealed. But that is very different from declaring that it is what the NT reveals.
The NT reveals no particular Form. But it reveals enough that certain Forms could be understood as meeting what is revealed. In other words, the way of "doing the table" in the Brethren, the LRC and some others is within the boundaries of what is revealed by the NT. But there is nothing which makes those "what is revealed in the NT" in such a way that they are the way it should be done.
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I completely agree.
This little story exposed for me the utter nonsense that the Recovery had somehow "recovered" the way to break bread ...
The sisters took turns making the bread, and one week a college sister made the bread out of whole wheat flour. It was out of convention, so my wife who was coordinating the service asked me if WHOLE WHEAT flour was OK. I said something like "it seemed good to me and the Holy Spirit." But when the leading sister in the church saw it before the meeting, she tore it up, and demanded another bread be used.
So later on I researched bleached white flour and learned that it was developed around the end of the 19th century. That was all I needed to know. For 19 centuries the church was doing the Lord's Table Meeting all wrong because they must have been using whole wheat flour.
At some point in our history, a perfectly acceptable way of making bread become THE WAY to make the bread. We had thus established the bread making ORDINANCE in the body of Christ. A way became THE WAY. This extra Biblical ordinance was thus added to our Bible. It was added to the growing list in our Official Recovery Book Of Bible Amendments. We could now feel completely justified in comdemning all others who differed from us. And we did!