[xzins]

Tell me again how belonging to a “denomination” guards against error.

Well.... um.... you see.. ahhh.... it's like this.....

Tell me how being a self-created house church guards against error.

[CynicalBear]

>> Tell me how being a self-created house church guards against error.<<

Self created you say!! What other things do you believe simply by conjecture?

[metmom]

Tell me how being a self-created house church guards against error.

SCRIPTURE.

Let me ask you this.....

What church or denomination is error free?

What church or denomination has perfect doctrine so we can all go join it?

[Alamo-Girl]

Tell me again how belonging to a “denomination” guards against error.

Well.... um.... you see.. ahhh.... it's like this.....

Tell me how being a self-created house church guards against error.

Truly, whereas the mentoring of our Christian ministers, teachers, family, etc. is very much appreciated, the assurance against error is Him.

But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. - I John 2:27

It has always been that way for me (from a previous thread:)

Waaay back in the 50’s, when I was in elementary school, several of us kids would meet after school in the local bakery shop while they were cleaning up. The owners would give us drinks and left-over goodies. We’d bring our Bibles, read and just talk about Jesus.

My older sister – now in heaven – was always the ring leader.

It so happened that an old retired Baptist preacher heard about the bakery shop kids and came by to meet us. He was moved by what he saw and he used his life’s savings to build a tiny little church up the street.

Naturally all the kids got the rest of their families to join them in meeting in the new church – and before you knew it we were all baptized Southern Baptist. The church grew and split and had missionary churches of it own.

If it had been someone from another Christian “label” who found the bakery shop kids, built the church and baptized us, I’d probably be wearing a different label today. LOLOL!

As it is my "letter" has always been in a Baptist church, though that point is meaningless to me because at the root, I will always be that bakery shop kid – a Christian, plain and simple.

God's Name is I AM.