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Originally Posted by Drake
2. What scriptural basis dId the coworker of Titus Chu sent to establish the newly appointed elders have for establishing a policy that the saints in Mansfield must adhere to the speaking, direction, and authority of these "elders" else they could go find someplace else to meet?
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Drake, conveniently leaving out the facts and the context of events? Why am I not surprised?
Show me one church in the world that would allow people to enter their meetings, disrupt the speakers, make demands on the elders, and then expect the elders to do nothing about it? Isn't that the role of elders to provide order in their church. Isn't it proper to ask unruly, disrespectful, and naughty people, incited by operatives sent by the Blendeds, to behave themselves?
And, btw, these same tactics were used in many Midwest LC's. Rom 16.17-19 instructs us to "
mark such ones, turn away from them, because they serve their own appetites, and by smooth and flattering speech they deceived the hearts of the simple."
Also, why do you question the authority of these "elders," properly appointed by the apostle who helped raise the church in Mansfield up, and confirmed by former elders and co-workers (NM and DS) who once lived in Mansfield. I guess once they held their Whistler Quarantine Kangaroo Court, the Blinded Oligarchy in Anaheim deemed all elder appointments as illegitimate. Even retroactively.