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Originally Posted by Igzy
Evangelical, Having a heart for oneness is fine. But saying that oneness needs to be realized by the model you prefer is something much different. Insisting on your model and calling everyone divisive who doesn't conform to it is itself divisive....
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I make no apologies. If you want local church members to post here then expect local church answers.
It's not the model "I prefer". It's the model revealed in the Bible. Time and time again when the local church is mentioned it is by the locality (the city name etc). You cannot find a denominational or a hierarchical structured model anywhere in the Bible. I do the right thing and request others to present to me these "different models" and no one can show me.
Please listen to yourself. Trying to argue that such an important matter as the church is not something Jesus revealed to us.
Even the Roman Catholics can tell me what the church is and where it is, better than you all can. They can point to it and say "here it is".
And many of you supposedly spent time in the "local churches" under Lee's ministry.
I think not, you would have a better understanding of these things, or it seems you were all "sleeping at the back" as one other poster put it.
Or you are merely recounting negative experiences that happened decades ago in the 70's and 80's. Things seem to have moved on, the LR has moved on. Welcome to the 21st Century.
The things done in the name of Christianity by the denominations has far exceeded any negative thing that the LR has ever done as far as I see it. Inquisitions, murders, etc.
Yet you are all defending them as if they are the exemplar of what church is all about.
Hopefully my post has demonstrated enough "independent thought" for my little brainwashed mind
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