[wideawake]

I generally avoid those who bring a spirit of contentiousness into the Church.

You made a contentious comment.

It should be pretty clear from Acts and the letters to Timothy that the Church had a defined institutional structure very early on, with centralized finances, counsels, defined roles within the Church for different Christians, etc.

[freebilly]

It should be pretty clear from Acts and the letters to Timothy that the Church had a defined institutional structure very early on, with centralized finances, counsels, defined roles within the Church for different Christians, etc. Matthew 18:20--

20"For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst."

[freebilly]

Let me know when you nail your theses to the Vatican door....

[Quix]

Are you aware at all

of the Biblical and other extensive evidence that

God the Father . . .

is KEENLY interested MUCH MORE in

RELATIONSHIP vs RELIGION

SUBSTANCE vs form

WALKING THE TALK vs having committee meetings about possibilities of conveying the extensively robust yet complex and multi-faceted aspects of the ground of our being upon the existential substrate of our emotionally, psychologically and sociologically fractured cultural mileu and national gestalt?