The Relationship Between The Churches And The Work

[rayliotta]

"Church in Boston and Living Stream Ministry, being parts of one fellowship of churches and service organizations, share the same beliefs and practices..."

Originally Posted by Terry

For example say you're the Church in Vista, you may invite anyone you want. The co-workers would have to respect this local church and not dictate nor recommend who the Church in Vista should or should not receive.

Yet if they were to actually invite Pope Benedict XVI, would they be in danger of "not sharing the same practices" anymore?

To put it a different way, are young people's drum sets more serious than the Pope?

[Ohio]

Originally Posted by rayliotta

"Church in Boston and Living Stream Ministry, being parts of one fellowship of churches and service organizations, share the same beliefs and practices..."

Just a cursory read of the N.T. would tell us that none of the churches of old "share the same beliefs and practices." If that were true, then Paul could have sent the exact same epistle to every place.

Originally Posted by rayliotta

To put it a different way, are young people's drum sets more serious than the Pope?

It depends on which factor becomes a greater threat to LSM's power base.

[rayliotta]

Originally Posted by Ohio

Just a cursory read of the N.T. would tell us that none of the churches of old "share the same beliefs and practices." If that were true, then Paul could have sent the exact same epistle to every place.

That's a really interesting point. Doesn't LSM send all of its "epistles" -- announcements, warning letters, etc -- to all the localities?

If Paul had had the functionality of email available to him, would he have conveniently sent all his epistles to all the churches?

[TLFisher]

Originally Posted by rayliotta

Doesn't LSM send all of its "epistles" -- announcements, warning letters, etc -- to all the localities?

Not exactly.

[rayliotta]

Originally Posted by Terry

Not exactly.

what do you mean

[TLFisher]

Originally Posted by rayliotta

what do you mean

Each locality distribute their own announcements. Of which may included LSM related announcements such as bi-annual trainings. Warning letters aren't always distributed. I've only heard of it when concerning co-workers. When concerning a brother or sister, I have not. I'm sure co-workers would violate the affairs of the church by interjecting an opinion concerning a brother or sister which of course will influence the elder or elders of that locality. As it has happened on multiple ocassions

[rayliotta]

Originally Posted by Terry

Each locality distribute their own announcements. Of which may included LSM related announcements such as bi-annual trainings. Warning letters aren't always distributed. I've only heard of it when concerning co-workers. When concerning a brother or sister, I have not. I'm sure co-workers would violate the affairs of the church by interjecting an opinion concerning a brother or sister which of course will influence the elder or elders of that locality. As it has happened on multiple ocassions

I was talking about letters sent by LSM. Do they view individual localities as ... individual? Because Paul did, didn't he?

Or do they instead view all the individual localities as really just one big locality, sending the same letter to "All the churches in the Lord's Recovery".

But hey, two sides to everything...