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Originally Posted by Unregistered
What has allowed me to stay is knowing that no church is perfect but the Lord is the one who has put me here.
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I hear the "no church is perfect" and "no minister is perfect" refrain more frequently these days. Of itself it's not untrue, but it's eerily familiar to the things that Martin Luther's fellow monks told him in the RCC, what John Wesley's Anglican peers said, what Watchman Nee's Anglican relatives told him.
When we want out, something is intolerable, but when we want to stay, it's not that bad, really... rather subjective, what? "So subjective is my Christ to me, real in me, and rich and sweet." Yes, but as
Trapped points out, if your "subjective Christ" allows you to condemn others' imperfections but overlooks your own, wasn't that thoroughly exposed in the gospels? Do I really need to quote the parables?
And as
Trapped also points out, the "high peak of God's economy" is perhaps "love your neighbor as yourself" and "give to those who can't repay, and you'll be repaid in the resurrection of the righteous" instead of "masticate the processed Triune God to become God in life and nature but not in the Godhead". There's simply no discernable evidence that it is what he said it was. His "God's economy" was whole-cloth fabrication. And yet it's presented as though it forms a basis for distinguishing "the local church" from everyone else, what's "genuine and proper" from the deficient and defunct.