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Contributed by Clarke
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Wednesday, 21 December 2005 |
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So…lets say I place membership at the non-institutional church down the
road. They would certainly have me as long as I don’t advocate
institutionalism, which I wouldn’t. So, lets say that I did….. we can
then look to our brothers on the right, the non-class, one-cup
congregations. I disagree with them, and they disagree with us. Of
course, we hold to the same non-instrumental worship, again we all
teach baptism, we all do the Lord’s Supper every Sunday. But, the NI
and mainline congregations use multiple communion cups, and we have
Sunday school before services. We would hold those to be matters of
opinion, but the one-cup, no-class church would claim that it is not in
the bible, and therefore not authorized and prohibited. Because of
that, we don’t communicate.
I wrote on Clarke Comments recently about two churches in Wilsonville,
Oregon (not too far from me). One congregation is a non-institutional
church, the other, a one-cup church. Both had gospel meetings around
Thanksgiving, and they went on during the same time during part of the
meetings. Neither communicate with the other. They might not even know
that the others exist.
That is quite a clash in belief.
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