A practice of personal transdenominationalism, while laudable and interesting, seems particularly irrelevant to the point. That practice essentially guarantees no offices. Can one practice the one and simultaneously advocate that there
must be these things? Isn't that at least partly inconsistent not to mention a recipe for disaster among those weaker in the faith?
Peter, you wanted me to agree that there should be a group-by-group freedom and that there should not be an attempt to impose anything on someone else. Please help me understand how you would have the appointed elders expressed in such a fluid environment. (I'm shying away from the term "spiritual authority" at this point because I don't know that verse either.)
I think you realize that my radical working thesis is that we must not have the old Hebrew artifacts among us, but most of the world will
insist that we must.
I believe until now I have understood that you have proposed that we should have among us whatever form of "organization" we feel appropriate and not superimpose that upon others. Well, I'm rejecting anything like an organization while at the same time recognizing what the Bible says about elders and apostles, at least, as problematical to maintaining such rejection.
Peter, you've got a soggy piece of Utopian land. And one or two hard-sells at your open house now.
Go for it.
