The Unique Move of God

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Originally Posted by Evangelical

OK back on topic. I wish to address the part you highlighted in bold about Thyatira. What you said is my point exactly. We do not distinguish between a genuine church and a false church based upon its level of perfection. We distinguish on the basis that the Lord addressed it as a single entity and not as a collection of churches/sects/sub-groups. This is what we mean by the genuine/true church. The church in Thyatira was a genuine church. No other group in Thyatira could claim to be "the church in Thyatira" while holding onto a denominational name. Any group which wishes to identify itself as merely a sub-group of "the church" in the city is clearly a division/sect, regardless of its condition.

We have repeatedly advised you of a church in Romans (16.19) and a church in Colosse (4.15) which Paul greeted in his letters, and obviously addressed in his letter as a 'sub-group" of the one church in that respective city.

Yet you either ignore these situations or claim they do not exist.