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03-21-2007, 10:14 PM
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What do you think of this Financial equality doctrine?
What about this financial and possessions equality for the Church of the 21st century.
Are we to sell everything we have put in in a pot and have everything common?
Sounds very unpractical and cult like.
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03-21-2007, 10:16 PM
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Originally Posted by COOPER
What about this financial and possessions equality for the Church of the 21st century.
Are we to sell everything we have put in in a pot and have everything common?
Sounds very unpractical and cult like.
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Psssst, don't tell the early Church that. 
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03-21-2007, 10:17 PM
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Originally Posted by COOPER
What about this financial and possessions equality for the Church of the 21st century.
Are we to sell everything we have put in in a pot and have everything common?
Sounds very unpractical and cult like.
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Communism... won't work today.
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03-21-2007, 10:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Berkeley
Communism... won't work today.
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Actually, what he describes is more akin to Socialism.
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03-21-2007, 10:20 PM
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I think if we were in survival mode like many in the first church were, our collective outlook and willingness to work together would be vastly different.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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03-21-2007, 10:20 PM
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Actually, what he describes is more akin to Socialism.
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Where would I be if you wasn't here to correct me??
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03-21-2007, 10:21 PM
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Originally Posted by rrford
Psssst, don't tell the early Church that. |
But I am asking todays Church.
Just because the early Church had cafeteria's and saints for waiters do we start the First American Church of the all you can eat Buffet?
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03-21-2007, 10:22 PM
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Originally Posted by MissBrattified
I think if we were in survival mode like many in the first church were, our collective outlook and willingness to work together would be vastly different.
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with a 90% backslider rate. People need to "pray through" because brother Bible Thumper didn't shake their hand... sister Sally Mae walked past without saying "Praise the Lord.." etc.
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03-21-2007, 10:22 PM
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Originally Posted by COOPER
But I am asking todays Church.
Just because the early Church had cafeteria's and saints for waiters do we start the First American Church of the all you can eat Buffet?
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No. Give when you can, and even when you can't. And be blessed.
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03-21-2007, 10:23 PM
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Originally Posted by rrford
Actually, what he describes is more akin to Socialism.
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What is the diff? especially when you have no freedom to question leadership, but just shut up and obey.
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