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CRJ President, Hank Hanegraaff
If priests, pastors, preachers, etc, dismiss this principle, tell them about these new findings of a respected evangelical research journal that used to oppose it.
The First Century bible principle is that Christians should meet simply on the basis of locality, which is all-inclusive, not based on organizations divisive by denomination.
Christian Research Journal December 2009 issue admits to decades of wrongly opposing this. Only a year ago, they and about 70 other denomination-based leaders co-signed an open letter calling on all local church people to cease from preaching these matters to denominational Christians.
After decades of being part of the organized opposition, Christian Research Journal is to be congratulated on the turnaround. It now sees the biblical basis of what's involved and is coming to see spiritual things local church people speak about despite all the opponent-spread confusion.
Simple test for your own church
Here's a simple test for whether your own church leader is still blinded - ask him/her about it. The local church proponents don't have an organizational name - that's the whole point. But one way to identify them is to mention their leading advocate, a Chinese man named Witness Lee (deceased).
The politic response to local churches is they're a cult or at least an aberrant lot. But the principal organization that fed the "aberrant" label, the Christian Research Journal, now officially admits "we were wrong".
It's December 2009 issue states the simple truth: "It's about the recovery of the 'local ground' as the biblical basis for organizing a church. The LC (the journal's tag for local church proponents) believes this to be perhaps the greatest contribution their movement has to make to the larger body of Christ." The journal said this in Part 4 of its detailed self-correction. (Get PDF copy.)
Do not talk about all those doctrines
Substantiating what the local church is about, the Christian Research Journal's "We Were Wrong" quoted Witness Lee (circa 1980): "Do not ask what kind of baptism others have had. Do not talk about all those doctrines. They have all been redeemed by the same blood; therefore, they all have the same life within. We are all one in this all-inclusive faith.
"Today there are many different backgrounds of the saints. Some have a Presbyterian background, some have a Baptist background, and some have other kinds of background. But regardless of the background, if they are saved, they all have the same faith, for they all believe in the same Lord Jesus Christ.
"As long as they are saints who are not sinful according to 1 Corinthians 5, we must recognize all of them as dear brothers and sisters."
I'm bewildered by the times that appear as I'm about to pre-post. It doesn't look like Australian Eastern Standard Time, or is it? If it offers me say 10:01. Does this mean it's 10:01 AEST, in which case choosing 12.00 would put my headline post in an Orble site at midday - is that right?
Travellers participating in the ships entertainment suddenly find there are zombies on board drowning them out. A dream, this illustrates todays church, drowning because of individualism.
We Christians are at risk whenever we think we are alive like Adam, because this makes us walking dead! Instead of walking in the Spirit of Christ, we become zombies joined with the spirit of death, whose deception makes us cry oh my god to the god we think is in spiritual control.
Its far better to cry Abba Father, which we only do spontaneously as reborn sons walking in the Spirit of Christ. New Testament writer Paul tells us our old man is dead since Jesus died on the cross. Jesus died as the last Adam and, since God considered Him worthy, He was resurrected by the same Spirit in whom today we are reborn brothers and sisters.
In this the church age, the word of God proceeds from His mouth via us in the church. Next is the millennium age during which all the wiseheads speaking outside of Christ will be put to open shame.
The raptured overcoming believers will be co-kings with Christ to put the spirit of death into the lake of fire. Then Gods desire can come His eternal habitation with mankind where the church is progressed into the glorious New Jerusalem. Thats a process both for mankind and God.
Readers, you can use the internet to check any of the above points googled together with recovery version bible. This kind of research* is fast and can tell what others think.
Alone we are prone to thinking amiss. To hit the mark in Christ we need to bring it to each other. One way is by commenting on internet-published articles in http://religion.orble.com.
Another is by mingling at a local church. Ive never been to the Randwick one here in Sydney before. Maybe Ill see you there.
* Heres a research example from googling Mathew 25:34 and recovery version bible:
Then the King will say to those on His right hand, Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
Cross reference (with own added words in brackets): Psalms 37:22 For those blessed (by being in Christ) will inherit the land, But those cursed (by staying outside of Christ) will be cut off.
Recovery Version notes to the above:
1. After the judgment at Christ's throne of glory, the "sheep" will be transferred into the millennium to be the people living under the kingly ruling of Christ and the overcoming believers (Rev. 2:26-27; 12:5; 20:4-6) and under the priestly ministry of the saved Jews (Zech. 8:20-23). In this way the "sheep" will inherit the (coming) kingdom. In the millennium there will be three sections: (1) the earth, where the blessing of God's creation will be, as mentioned in Gen. 1:28-30; (2) the nation of Israel in Canaan, from the Nile to the Euphrates, from which the saved Jews will rule over the whole earth (Isa. 60:10-12; Zech. 14:16-18); and (3) the heavenly and spiritual section (1 Cor. 15:50-52), the manifestation of the kingdom of the heavens, where the overcoming believers will enjoy the kingdom reward (5:20; 7:21). The kingdom that the "sheep" will inherit consists of the first section.
2 The blessing of the first section in the millennium, the blessing of God's creation, was prepared for the "sheep" from the foundation of the world, whereas the blessing in the third section, the blessing of the heavenly and spiritual kingdom, was ordained for the believers before the foundation of the world (Eph. 1:3-4).
Two leading American economists say the baton for the world's leading economy could this Saturday effectively be passed from the US to China, at the G20 New York meeting of world leaders hosted by US President George Bush
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What lies ahead with Obama was covered on SBS today by PBS's News Hour.
American Public Broadcasting Service's insight on the matter came from New York Times columnist David Brooks and syndicated columnist Mark Shields (4.30-to-5.30pm today Aust EST
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Sad at so many friends leaving
Big Cat's third go at finding the Spirit came after Scientology did its engram-seeking thing, only to find all the confessing apparently didn't impress the Holy Spirit, who he still couldn't find.
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September 28th 2007 02:43
Abuse and crime: Big Cat journeys from his "truth" closer to real truth. About bad conscience, learning from Scientology and (next) Christianity.
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September 23rd 2007 06:30
Last night's ABC showing of the final in the present series of Dr Who was highly evocative emotionally and even spiritually. No wonder it has a cult-like following of avid supporters. Even older, mildly avid viewers like me get excited enough to want to write about it.
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