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Originally Posted by Drake
Igzy,
Will you agree that a co-worker may come in and appoint elders and set things in order? If so, why can a co-worker appoint an elder but not remove an elder?
Drake
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I have been in many different Christian fellowships and have yet to meet anywhere where that did not have an elder that was not appointed. So neither of those criteria separate the LRC fellowship from other Christian fellowships. So once again, the question is "how can we know if a Christian gathering is meeting in the name of Jesus"?
Neither you nor Evangelical are able to answer this even though you have taken the position that this meeting cannot be a "church" meeting. There is no biblical basis to say that.
Since we can know false prophets by their fruit why can't we know genuine meetings by their fruit?
Do not the rich oppress you, and themselves drag you before the judgment-seats? 7 Do not they blaspheme the honorable name by which ye are called? 8 Howbeit if ye fulfil the royal law, according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well: 9 but if ye have respect of persons, ye commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
I think Igzy and Ohio are not objecting to things being done in order, or that elders are being appointed according to the NT, rather what they have observed is people "having respect of persons" and that is contrary to the Lord's command to love thy neighbor as thyself. It is played out by the "rich" in the "spirit" oppressing others, dragging them into law courts and before "judgement seats".