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of many tools (organizations) Christians may build and through which Christians may work in worship, teaching, and evangelism.
You need to make up your mind. Many Christians prefer to stay in limbo on this for convenience sake. To do so is to make arguments like the "family" argument which contributes nothing to helping saints preserve the New Testament patterns, and it only lends support to succesive steps in buiding "other kinds" of "human" organizations for teaching and worship.
You ought to be wise enough to see that in this digression. Remember what the Liberals did with the "family" argument. It is not a new argument. It is an old Liberal argument! It led them to church supported human institutions built to do the work of the Lord. It is leading us in another direction to individually supported missionary societies.
1. The "individual" teaching and worshipping authorizes Christians to build a "human religious organization" (individually supported) for teaching and worship, and it is simply to be construed as individuals teaching and worshipping. 2. The "local church" teaching authorizes the building of a "human religious organization" (church supported) which is to be construed as just local churches teaching. 3. The "family" (a Divine organization) authorizes Christians to build a "human organization" for teaching and worship (family supported), and the "human organization" is just to be construed as the "family teaching". 4. The "local church" (a Divine organization) authorizes Christians to build a "human organization" for teaching and worship (church supported), and the "human organization" is just to be construed as the "church teaching". 5. To say that the other (not Divine) "human" organization Christians build functions in a "dual role," i.e. it was built and exists as an organization that functions in both secular and religious work, therefore that (a "dual role") makes it OK. |
