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1,329 posted on 10/25/2006 9:00:27 AM PDT by adiaireton8 ("There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse." - Plato, Phaedo 89d)

I have noted many times hereon and at least once in this thread . . .

any group of people worshipping together as a church . . . that exists for about a year and a half or longer . . . begins to get fossilized, calcified, traditional, rigid, CUSTOM BOUND and resistent to hearing and obeying God's Voice, HIS SPIRIT

unless the leadership is wise enough to insure otherwise AND DETERMINED in practical effective ways to make it so. That usually takes enormous humility and enormous diligence with lots of input from all levels of the group and from occasional outside observers AS WELL AS PRAYER AND FASTING on occasion about those very tendencies and issues.

1,342 posted on 10/25/2006 9:15:56 AM PDT by Quix (LET GOD ARISE AND HIS ENEMIES BE SCATTERED. LET ISRAEL CALL ON GOD AS THEIRS! & ISLAM FLUSH ITSELF)