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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
Instead of leaving your gift at the altar, Evangelical determines who is in right standing and refuses communion if he determines they aren’t. Given the apology letter to PL I assume this is a very low bar indeed.
Andrew Yu ducks and weaves with this, instead of saying they are “the only church” they say they are “only the church”. What he neglects to mention is that he also says that all others are not “only the church”.
Evangelical for some reason thinks that elders are exempted from sinning and needing reconciliation. Apparently his version of the Bible has deleted all verses relevant to this topic.
It is so twisted that Evangelical “cannot see how anyone can follow Christ’s words in Matthew 18:17.
23“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected the weightier*matters*of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.24Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!
The more you listen to Evangelical this whole topic is about straining a gnat out of the NT while swallowing the camel.
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I never said that elders are exempt from sinning.That is your strawman. My point is related to the multiplicity of elders and altars existing today. And the scriptural assumption that "the church" is a place that one can be confident in going to declare ones grievances and resolve disputes.
I note that Jesus never said "tell it to the church that the sinning brother atttends". Jesus implies that a multiplicity of churches would not exist, just as they did not exist at the time.
If there are 100 different churches in a city, how do you know which altar to leave your gift at? The scripture says altar, but because of denominations today it is in fact many altars. This is a situation of confusion and division.
Rather than leave the gift at the altar, the denominational solution is to create a new altar.