Here it is. I deleted some monikers to protect the guilty.
(The unquoted portions are Barnabas' contributions)
Ah, the true beauty of the internet; it gives a voice to every kind of bizarre belief system. Christ has been building His church for two thousand years, and now we want to dream of destroying generations of thought, devotion, and work. The real call here is to embrace an offbeat interpretation of the Bible, to indulge in paranoid delusions, and to reject the institutional Church which has been the greatest force for missions effort the world has ever known.
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Meet in houses and feel no need to build a special meeting place.
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What a great idea. God was mistaken about the Tabernacle and the Temple, and we don't need Church buildings. Take away the Church building, get rid of the Church's community identity. Let's dream of a day when the Church becomes invisible and ineffective. Pentecostalism has grown for a hundred years, building church buildings wherever they went; let's forget that and meet in tiny groups in houses until we become as irrelevant as other groups that have chosen that route. If we really want to lose our influence in society, we could build communes; why only go half way?
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Give more of our resources to the poor rather than heep them upon ourselves for big nice buildings with a church staff.
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Here's another good one. I've never met a godly person who didn't love the house of God; the godly people I've met have always had a heart to build as good a house for God as they possibly could. I suspect that this attitude grows more out of stinginess than out of a love for the poor. The author may be a true advocate for the poor and live in a shack so that he can do more to feed them, I don't know. In my community, the people who feed the poor are the same ones who love the church buildings that they have sacrificed to build.
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Lead each other more rather than putting so much emphasis on one part of the 5 fold ministry.
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Now here's an attitude I've met before. People who don't want a shepherd; in the business, we call them goats.
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Yeah it does require study. Of course we are compelled to do just that. I have no idea why I didn't expect the rants but, alas, I didn't. I just forget that, generally, you cannot have any calm discussion or ask even a simple question that even remotely questions status quo. You will, without question, be met with strong responses filled with personal slants telling you what type of attitude you have and how backward your thinking is. I simply asked a question. I attend a local church building. I pay tithes. I have a pastor. I simply asked a question. But we just can't go there. It is beyond discussion. It is taboo. It is not convention to even think about it. Oh well... I thought it would be fun. I was wrong.
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Hey there ******, this is FCF, you're not allowed to go "wee, wee, wee," all the way home. Thicken your skin, support your opinions, and we can have some discussion. How can a response be personal when we don't have any idea who you are?
You've proposed the spiritual equivalent of a nuclear holocaust; go ahead and trot out your arguments to convince us it's a good idea to push the button.
This is about as calm as I get and I can assure you that I'm having fun. If you don't like strong responses, don't post strong posts. When you get up on a soap box around here, you become a target. That's only a problem if your position won't stand up to scrutiny.
Boy, I love Mondays on FCF. I'll bet we wind up with some deleted threads once TT shows up.
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I am simply an ignorant man, trying to lessen his ignorance.
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