[Notwithstanding]

Many people fall into the trap of self-sects, as you describe your own practices. Your choice is a gross and self-centered perversion.

While you CAN get some things right this way, it is NOT the way prescribed by God Himself.

[Westbrook]

> as you describe your own practices.

Not at all. The Scriptures are plain enough when it comes to practice.

Read 1st John 2:27

Following is a little note from the Pilgrim Fathers, whom you would probably disdain, though you benefit greatly from their insight and heritage.

The Apostle Paul would have none folllow him but wherein he followed Christ; much less ought any Christian or Church in the world to do so. The French may err, we may err, and other Churches may err, and doubtless do in many circumstances. The honour of infallibility, therefore, belongs only to the word of God and the pure testament of Christ, to be followed as the only rule and pattern for direction by all Churches and Christians.

It is great arrogance for any man or Church to think that he or they have so sounded the word of God to the bottom as to be able to set down precisely a Church's practices without error in substance or circumstance, and in such a way that no one thereafter may digress or differ from them with impunity.