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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
I find it very interesting this desperate attempt to require elders to legitimize a christian gathering as a church.
I went from Matt 18 (the Lord's word on the church) to Ephesians (Paul's word). In Matt 18 a crucial promise is that a gathering of 2 or 3 meeting in the name of Jesus can bind or loose on Earth and what they bind or loose on Earth will be what has been bound in heaven.
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Evangelical's qualifiers are all natural opinions based on common sense, human logic, past experiences, or contrived numbers from the Bible.
Hey, what about 144,000? That's a great number!
The problem is that Evangelical's qualifiers are all in the natural realm, but the real church is spiritual. Evangelical has to fight this to the bitter end just because Lee said so. Lee said 2 or 3 cannot be the church,
so it must be so!