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Contributed by Clarke
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Wednesday, 21 December 2005 |
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I have come to question whether or not silence is meant to be
restricting or meant to be granting liberty. The main reason I question
this principle of ours is because of our fellowship itself.
I attend a “mainline” church of Christ congregation. Not a liberal
congregation, not really a conservative one either, mostly just middle
of the road. I have also attended non-institutional churches, and I
grew up in both mainline and non-institutional churches. I, however, am
not against institutions.
So, I look to my brothers on the right, and I will take the
non-institutional churches as an example, and I disagree with them, and
they disagree with me. They disagree with my beliefs so much that the
non-institutional congregation that is just one mile up the road does
not fellowship with my congregation. Neither use instrumental worship,
both teach baptism for remission of sins, both practice the Lord’s
Supper in the same way, but we don’t communicate because my
congregation isn’t against using money received in the church
collection plate to support the local Christian college.
I would say that the non-institutional churches have made an issue out
of an opinion. The non-institutional churches would say that
institutions are not in the bible, and that congregations pooling
resources is not in the bible, so it is not authorized and therefore
forbidden.
That is quite a clash in belief.
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