While traveling I read this in the T. Austin Sparks daily devotional (Daily Open Windows) for August 25th:
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"Man has put his hand on heavenly things and tried to bring them onto this earth. It might be a 'New Testament Church' of a composite nature: certain things taught, enacted and done in conformity to the record in the New Testament; a certain order, technique and construction; these things have been drawn together as a creed, a form of procedure and made the 'basis' the form and standard, the 'constitution' of a body, an institution, a society, a man's mind and man's hand defining, controlling, holding. The verdict of history is that God will just not commit Himself to any such thing . . .The apostles did not take with them a "Blue Print" of New Testament churches wherever they went. The outcome of their work was a crises, a climax to an old creation and the fiat of a new."
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This made me think of a particular group when I read this. I wonder if this makes you think of any particular group . . .
