[Terriergal]

"I didn't have any tools. There was no instruction manual.

Did you notice that? No instruction manual? (for running a church?) What about the Bible? No tools? What about the Bible and good hermeneutics?

So like Shirley MacLaine he took his hands off the wheel...instead of asking the Lord of Scripture what he wanted! Asking HIM to drive.

[Manfred the Wonder Dawg]

The Great Apostasy? Two very good supplemental instruction manuals he should read, if he can fit them with the “hundreds of books” he inhales in a given year.

http://www.antonbosch.com/books.html

http://www.challies.com/archives/book-reviews/book-review-the-25.php

[ovrtaxt]

Did you notice that? No instruction manual? (for running a church?) What about the Bible?

Now you have to admit, the Bible does't say anything about 'running a church'.

It has a lot to say about our relationships to to others, but running a church in the present day tradition is a completely foreign concept to what Paul did.

We have a habit of projecting it into the scriptures, (I did it for years) but it's just not there.

[ovrtaxt]

Let me rephrase that- the Bible has lot to say about being the church, but not running a church.