10-31-2016, 09:22 AM
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Re: The UPC is a dying movement!
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Originally Posted by shazeep
well, the problem might be that it is the people who are the Church, and there is no other Church but the people, so, the UPCI is an organization, not a church. It is an attempt to organize the Church. Hmm. So, instead of the Church being made up of the members of the Body, the Church is being made into an organ of...something else. Now we are not talking about congregations...until they accept being an organ of something else.
And even this may not describe a person, who happens to be there in the congregation, because they may not consider themselves a...member...is a member the same as an organ? Yes, it is. So when you become a member, you become an organ, to whatever it is that you have joined. Whaddya think?
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This is like reading Fox In Sox.
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