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Originally Posted by Jo S
You mentioned you meet with the Catholic church and it's members? Correct?
I don't agree with your equivalency however. Thyatira had faults but they were not yet apostate. But where is the Church of Thyatira now? The city no longer exists.
The Catholic church is a Church, it's even a Christian church in name but is it a genuine Christian church? No. The only genuine church will be the church gathered in the New Jerusalem at Christ's second coming.
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So let's try a different angle - what makes a church - - believers with Christ in them constitutes a church (ekklesia: a called-out gathering), right? Does the LC or the RCC have believers in them? (Sure, you can argue the percentages of those actually with Christ in them at the LC or RCC, but that's the basic premise.)
What is your scriptural definition of the ekklesia?