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To: PeterPrinciple

“Does two or three gathered in my name jog your memory?”

Yes, but that passage was NOT discussing the Body of Christ.

“And He personally gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, for the training of the saints in the work of ministry...” - Ephesians 4

“For as the body is one and has many parts, and all the parts of that body, though many, are one body—so also is Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit. So the body is not one part but many. If the foot should say, “Because I’m not a hand, I don’t belong to the body,” in spite of this it still belongs to the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I’m not an eye, I don’t belong to the body,” in spite of this it still belongs to the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? But now God has placed each one of the parts in one body just as He wanted. And if they were all the same part, where would the body be? Now there are many parts, yet one body.” - 1 Corinthians 12

If one is part of the Body of Christ, one isn’t solo. Nor is meeting with 2 or 3 others normally sufficient.

“The reason I left you in Crete was to set right what was left undone and, as I directed you, to appoint elders in every town: one who is blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of wildness or rebellion. For an overseer, as God’s administrator, must be blameless, not arrogant, not hot-tempered, not addicted to wine, not a bully, not greedy for money, but hospitable, loving what is good, sensible, righteous, holy, self-controlled, holding to the faithful message as taught, so that he will be able both to encourage with sound teaching and to refute those who contradict it.” - Titus 1

Not much to “oversee” if it is just 2-3 gathering. Big difference between meeting to pray and the Church.


42 posted on 01/14/2018 5:36:34 PM PST by Mr Rogers (Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools)
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To: Mr Rogers

If one is part of the Body of Christ, one isn’t solo. Nor is meeting with 2 or 3 others normally sufficient


2 or three is sufficient for Jesus, He is there. It is YOU that doesn’t like the idea........................


43 posted on 01/14/2018 5:58:33 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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