If you were in Scottsdale would you take the Table..

[Sons to Glory!]

Originally Posted by Ohio

The church in Scottsdale was born out of Bill Freeman's excommunication by Lee.

Does the church in Scottsdale have any fellowship with the adjacent church in Phoenix? Can they come to your meetings and break bread? And vice versa?

If Phoenix and Scottsdale began to fellowship, would not Blendeds from HQ be sent to stop it?

There is very limited interaction between Scottsdale and Phoenix . . . very limited. At least that's my impression. I went to a gathering there many years ago and I believe one or two leading bros here have some occasional contact, albeit I think very, very infrequently.

As far as taking the table in Scottsdale, if a person has been born again with the new life & nature of Christ, they are certainly welcome here to sup with us! (Therefore this certainly includes the saints who meet as the LC in Phoenix.) In fact, I do wish they would come fellowship and take the table with us! This would make my spirit joyful, just as when any new ones join us!

Not sure about the vice versa, but I hope so.

FYI - I plan to ask a brother at the Thursday brothers' breakfast about some things related to SC background, and some of these things we've been discussing.

("Until we all arrive at the unity of the faith . . . a full-grown man" Eph 4:13 In reality - in spirit - we are all one and that is just the fact. I believe one day soon the oneness may be manifested very quickly. The Lord can do this - change hearts & minds of saints instantly. We saw after 9/11 how fast all the divides came down in the secular world. If something major happened in the spiritual realm and we all got really serious with God, I believe Christians would drop all the silly things that separate us in a heartbeat.)

[Drake]

Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!

There is very limited interaction between Scottsdale and Phoenix . . . very limited. At least that's my impression. I went to a gathering there many years ago and I believe one or two leading bros here have some occasional contact, albeit I think very, very infrequently.

As far as taking the table in Scottsdale, if a person has been born again with the new life & nature of Christ, they are certainly welcome here to sup with us! (Therefore this certainly includes the saints who meet as the LC in Phoenix.) In fact, I do wish they would come fellowship and take the table with us! This would make my spirit joyful, just as when any new ones join us!

Not sure about the vice versa, but I hope so.

FYI - I plan to ask a brother at the Thursday brothers' breakfast about some things related to SC background, and some of these things we've been discussing.

("Until we all arrive at the unity of the faith . . . a full-grown man" Eph 4:13 In reality - in spirit - we are all one and that is just the fact. I believe one day soon the oneness may be manifested very quickly. The Lord can do this - change hearts & minds of saints instantly. We saw after 9/11 how fast all the divides came down in the secular world. If something major happened in the spiritual realm and we all got really serious with God, I believe Christians would drop all the silly things that separate us in a heartbeat.)

StG, Do it. Its right next door. Just go over, take a brother with you, take a seat on the front row, break bread, and stand up and share whatever you have been enjoying of the Lord at the appropriate moment. Let us know what happens.

Here I think your guileless and right heart is manifested. I believe also that the spiritual realm is where the front line of the battle is enjoined. We don't see it physically but how much would christians still hold onto if they could see it with their own eyes.

Drake

[Sons to Glory!]

Originally Posted by Drake

StG, Do it. Its right next door. Just go over, take a brother with you, take a seat on the front row, break bread, and stand up and share whatever you have been enjoying of the Lord at the appropriate moment. Let us know what happens.

Here I think your guileless and right heart is manifested. I believe also that the spiritual realm is where the front line of the battle is enjoined. We don't see it physically but how much would christians still hold onto if they could see it with their own eyes.

Drake

I appreciate that! I must admit, however, that when I'm home, I just miss the sharing by the various brothers on Sunday to much! When traveling that's not an issue, and my desire to be with saints has me going to various types of fellowships - usually what is closest. But as said before, I do plan to speak with one brother Thursday who is probably the most connected with our LC brothers. Perhaps the Lord will lead us to do as you suggest!

[Indiana]

Originally Posted by Drake

StG, Do it. Its right next door. Just go over, take a brother with you, take a seat on the front row, break bread, and stand up and share whatever you have been enjoying of the Lord at the appropriate moment. Let us know what happens.

Here I think your guileless and right heart is manifested. I believe also that the spiritual realm is where the front line of the battle is enjoined. We don't see it physically but how much would christians still hold onto if they could see it with their own eyes.

Drake

"The call of 'men' to join with Gideon during the new way unwittingly helped create a church of Gideon and his 300 men, as oneness in the Local Churches with a man and a ministry prevailed to become the very oneness of the church."


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The Church of Gideon and His 300 Men

EXAMPLES

Church in Moses Lake

A brother from the church in Moses Lake, which is no longer associated with LSM, went to visit the church in Ephrata nearby. He was told when he got there he could not meet with them because he was “not one with the ministry”.

Church in Bellevue

An elder stood up in the meeting in Bellevue and declared that if “anyone is not here for Witness Lee and his ministry, he might as well not be here”.

Church in San Diego

At a home meeting in San Diego an elder stated “I don’t want to waste time talking to someone who is not for the ministry”.

There are too many testimonies like these, showing that our practice in the Local Churches may not be according to Christ alone as “the common center of all the churches”, but rather as Nee warned about, “a company of believers that has a leader, a doctrine, an experience, a creed, or an organization as their center of fellowship, who “will find that that center becomes the center, and it is that center by which they determine who belongs to
them and who does not” (The Normal Christian Church Life, p. 184, Nee)

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The Church of Gideon and His 300 Men
S. I. Sept 2014