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I want to give a big thanks to a great spell cast...<br />I want to give a big thanks to a great spell caster commonly known as DR TAKUTA for the great spiritual prayers he did in my life by bringing my ex-lover back to me after many months of breakup and loneliness. With this, I am convinced that you are sent to this word to rescue people from heartbreaks and also to help us get the solution to every relationship problem. for those of you out there who have one relationship problem or the other why not contact DR TAKUTA. that is the best place you can solve all your problems, including a lack of jobs and promotions, binding and marriage spells, divorce and attraction spells, anxiety and depression problems, good luck and lotto spells, fertility, and pregnancy spells, and also the business success and customer increase, winning court cases and many more. contact him at takutaspellalter@gmail.com or contact mobile contact +2348158676990<br />bettyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06104426779486727252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9031852996869768738.post-59099401825119906652013-07-23T23:43:38.010+01:002013-07-23T23:43:38.010+01:00PD, I have to say I haven't got a clue what yo...PD, I have to say I haven't got a clue what you're on about. But then it seems to me you haven't a clue what I'm on about either, so we're 'quits'. ;-)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03590979027426082714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9031852996869768738.post-76855020275966729432013-07-23T23:23:35.354+01:002013-07-23T23:23:35.354+01:00But is there not a division between the ‘suma tou ...But is there not a division between the ‘suma tou Christou’ and the theatre of a certain culture that is often the parochial church? There is the white middle-class culture of various hues – liberal to (increasingly) reactionary conservative. There are growing black churches, but these have a bias towards ghettoisation and/or limiting congregations to specific ethnic groups (I know of one building in South London where six different Nigerian churches meet every Sunday – each not very complimentary their neighbours...). We see the Alpha Course – a systemic enculturalization, squeezing any shaped pegs into very square holes. <br /><br />There is the facile belief that ‘the Church’ of the New Testament is the same as the ‘the Church’ of the Reformation as the Church of Wesley or Charles Simeon or Edward Pusey... <br /><br />The problem with a developed society - particularly one that has a comprehensive welfare state – is that existential angst is mollified by consumerism and that vicarious means of existence many live by (sports, films, music, Royalty personalities etc.). Individualism (or at least the illusion of individualism), the welfare state, political stability, vicarious living, consumerism are the real enemies of the Church – few need its props and delusions. There are a plethora of ‘societies’ people can join that give people what they want, that they don’t a church. People can have their own means of conceit and sense of meaning.<br /><br />The only way you’ll fill the churches is to increase existential angst, end the welfare state and make people’s lives uncomfortable. That’s not going to happen in the short term... So perhaps the way forward is for churches just to be nicer, less judgemental or at least a little more even handed in whom they condemn... And stop being such 'know alls' and thinking they have all the answers.<br /><br />PD London<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9031852996869768738.post-65977558776126410702013-07-23T14:49:34.591+01:002013-07-23T14:49:34.591+01:00Luther, the context for Jesus' "two or th...Luther, the context for Jesus' "two or three" is church discipline (Matthew 18:15ff), not church worship. I would say that the biblical outcomes of a church service - building up, encouragement, unity in love - tend to flourish best when there's more than three of you.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11978229988713658551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9031852996869768738.post-23645607704330776762013-07-23T14:43:12.312+01:002013-07-23T14:43:12.312+01:00Great article, and some very important questions.
...Great article, and some very important questions.<br /><br />One more question, if I may. When scripture speaks about the church as the body of Christ it does have the universal church in view - Article XIX's (=Calvin's!) definition doesn't really major on that bit. So I'd like to ask this: when you leave the church service, do you know yourself to be part of a whole that far transcends the local congregation you have joined and been knitted into?<br /><br />I don't take that question in a dryly institutional sense (pace Rome). I've got an independent Evangelical congregation right here on my doorstep that's more clearly part of the church universal than many an institutional congregation.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11978229988713658551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9031852996869768738.post-20692172436758267732013-07-23T13:25:39.259+01:002013-07-23T13:25:39.259+01:00Just a thought, probably minor, but then again, no...Just a thought, probably minor, but then again, no, it isn't.<br />You comment that some feel it necessary to have:<br /><br />"...a gathering of a reasonable size...".<br /><br />I would agree, but point out that Jesus says that a reasonable size gathering (congregation) is to be found "wherever two or three are gathered in my name...".<br /><br />The search for 'size' is therefore not entirely Biblical or helpful when considering what constitutes a viable 'meeting' part of the true church. Two will do.Lutherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09210584900632538195noreply@blogger.com