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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
Jesus said He would build His church, his gathering of the called out ones, the gathering of the redeemed.
This gathering does not represent all believers in a city, it represents Jesus.
They must have the Lord's table, but they do that in remembrance of Jesus, not of other believers in their city.
As the Body of Christ they must have the life of Christ.
As the New Man they must have the person of Christ.
As the Kingdom they must have the king of kings.
It is not about "representing" the believers, it is about representing Christ. Expressing Christ. 2 or 3 can express Christ, they can remember Christ, they can be redeemed, they can gather, they can be an ekklesia.
No one made Witness Lee God (except of course Witness Lee) that he gets to decide who is and who is not the church.
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2 or 3 can do all those things but to be a biblical church they need a lampstand and they need to have the Lord's Table and baptize and plurality of (male) elders.
According to these biblical qualifiers of what is a church, 2 or 3 sisters having a prayer time together in a park does not qualify. I am not really stating a Lee or Nee doctrine here, that is what I believed and what many others believed when I was in denominations. Everyone knows that the idea of "2 or 3 plus Jesus is a church" is wrong. That is a lie based upon out of context interpretation of Jesus's words, when he was speaking about church discipline. He said tell the problem to your brother, if he won't listen, tell it to 2 or 3, and then if still no good, tell it to the church. So the church cannot be just the two or three, otherwise there is contradiction between Matthew 18:16 and 17.