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Originally Posted by Ohio
The LC's have all sorts of meetings, in which they regularly meet separately -- they have their workers' meetings, children's meetings, elders' meetings, middle-aged meetings, Chinese speaking meetings, young people's meetings, college age meetings, sisters' meetings, HS and JH meetings, Spanish language meetings, deacons' meetings, etc. etc. -- and nearly all of these have no scriptural support.
Obviously both the Baptist and the Presbyterian meetings are designed to meet certain needs of certain ones in the body of Christ.
But Evangelical only can justify "LSM-approved" gatherings. Anything and everything else he must condemn.
LSM does it -- good! Others do it -- bad! |
This does not really answer the question.
Your comeback at how LSM has different meetings has
nothing to do with the topic here.
Note that I am talking about different
churches here.. baptist versus presbyterian. What
you call churches and I call sects. We are not talking about children's meetings versus adult meeting's.
If the baptist and presbyterian would redefine themselves as "meetings" and not churches then perhaps you have a valid point and my argument is for nothing. But until then, if you wish to be taken seriously as
bible following Christians, then the onus is on you to provide biblical support for the different organizations that you call churches.
Remember, I'm the one "following Witness Lee and the LC" so the onus is on you to provide support for what you believe in from the
Bible alone. I think you should answer this according to the Bible not for my sake but for the sake of seekers who may be reading this thread.
If you really are a bible follower and know your bible, you should be able to come up with a better reason than "people have different needs".
That's a reason but it's not an answer to my question:
no one here so far has been able to provide a
verse from the Bible justifying why the Baptist and Presbyterian denominations meet separately.
"Obviously both the Baptist and the Presbyterian meetings are designed to meet certain needs of certain ones in the body of Christ. "
I will accept your reason as valid and truthful, but it lacks the biblical support.
Please provide a verse from the Bible that says "meetings are designed to meet certain needs of certain ones in the body of Christ."
If you cannot provide a verse then it will reveal who is following the Bible and who is not.
I am not interested in what man has to say about this, I want to know what
biblical support there is for the Baptist and Presbyterians not meeting together.