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Originally Posted by shag
I overlooked, or missed a post(s) where a poster was against congregating together as the body, whether locally or beyond locally, as long as they're meeting....whether 3x a week, or 3x a month. (I have not read every page, just skimmed the last couple pages and jumped in briefly).
Looks to me like, He built His church, which is the body of Christ, and they meet locally at times, and beyond. I.E.: evangelists or others that their vocation has them traveling often. But we still need to meet w each other as part of His body, wherever it works best individually w priorities like to encourage, pray, worship, and strengthen one another etc..
I'm not seeing where the demand or required definition for "called out believers / His body, be limited to a particular localized assembly, but then again, I think it's splitting hairs.
Is someone arguing that we don't ever need to meet/congregate together?
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BINGO!
Mat 13:36 Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.
Mat 13:37 He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;
Mat 13:38 The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;
So how does the local assembly relate to being in the world field? It seems you have misunderstood me or else you just want to argue specifically with me for the sake of argument. No one said the local assembly was not the body of Christ. But just as your depiction of the parts of the body within the local assembly, it is also related to each local assembly is part of the greater assembly.
Just because each assembly does not gather with one another, does that make them not part of the Body of Christ?
And while you accuse the RCC of establishing a universal church in order to control the world per sae. It seems that you have done the same in reverse. By making the local assembly the body of Christ you have put the control in the hands of one man the pastor.
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