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Assembly Life (pdf) Rethinking the Work (pdf inside) Church is Local, Work is Regional
Basic entries for apostles & elders:
The meeting place finder simply facilities the building and strengthening of the body of Christ through proper authority and submission from God to the Apostles for a region of churches to the Elders of a locality to Elders of meeting places.
1. Regional apostle's name. Enter your real name and yes or no to each of these questions for apostles which you can do so in your profile at Biblocality Forums.
2. The apostle's own locality. Provide your local church name (e.g. church of Smyrna). Each informal apostle began from a particular locality which does not need to be the same region they presently work in. An apostle will be chosen from his own locality to be sent forth to do the Work for the Church so he must have a testimony of his own locality.
3. The region of churches. An apostle provides the province, state or region of churches already established by governmental authorities that he is responsible for (e.g. churches of Asia Minor).
4. Details page for map location. Elders of a locality provide a website and other information for their church locality as a base of operation for approving Elders of meeting places.
5. The local church elders. An elder submits the apostle(s) who appointed her. An effective matching method is achieved, so that if no apostle appointed the recorded elder, he would be removed.
6. Preserving Biblical locality. Always keep separate the Work (4-fold Work who are gifts for the Church-Eph. 4.11) for the Church and the Church itself. This is not a clergy-piety and laity or pastoral system popular today, but simply and precisely proper Biblical locality. Regional apostles find agreement in their authority as did Peter, Paul and James.
I can imagine Satan will hate this fervently when it gets underway. So far, however, there is a resistance to this whole plan, and that is what is needed to overcome.
"And God hath set some in the church, first apostles...[Are] all apostles?" (1 Cor. 12.28,29). |
The strength and power and life of the church is in Christ and then the church in its locality operating as a unit. The quality of the church is dependent on the harmony of the church in locality. This is proper authority and submission and is a miniature of the new city in the new earth. The unit of the church is the local church (e.g. church of Jerusalem or church of Ephesus).
Are you an elder of a local church (that is, one who has been appointed the position to manage local church affairs)? If you are an elder, you are not part of a corporate-style denomination nor some organization of the church. Nor are you receiving salary for your work. It is voluntary and led by the Holy Spirit.
If you are an Elder of a locality or an Elder of a meeting place, please enter your church locale and meeting place (as defined not by elders, but by governmental authorities) on the map to help others find where to fellowship in the local assembly-the whole locality-nearby where they live.
As an apostle or elder, submit your map location. Add the "body of Christ" button to your website along its lintels and doorposts (Ex. 11,12). Spread the Word of God we are the body of Christ, and these are our local assemblies of the universal church.
To confirm for yourselves that the one who rises up and declares himself as an informal apostle for your region (e.g. churches of Judea or churches of Asia Minor) ensure that he or she agrees with these questions. This will quell the spirit of dissension of multiple Christian organizations, sects and denominations in a locality and then eventually, denominations will be a thing of the past with no need for such differences. The sooner we do this the sooner Christ returns. And Satan reacts furiously. Usually on the return trip the elders are selected in those churches after they are formed and allowed some time to digest these truths. There is no independent moves in the church-only agreement and harmony!
There will be many meeting places for the best size of fellowship is 50 to 100. It could be as little as 2 or 3 persons in a remote area and should not be more than 3000 to 5000 (see Acts) in congested areas. Otherwise, fellowship is too large and takes up too much time to pass out the breaking of bread on the Lord's day.
I do not know how long this will take to become reality for the church, only the fact of it given to me by the Holy Spirit and confirmed in the Word of God. It is up to members of the body of Christ to make it happen! Let us keep the Word of His patience (Rev. 3.10) and not be anxious for these works to transpire. May the Church no longer be divisive with denominations by saying "I of Cephas" and "I of Apollos." Even so, we know Christ is needed to return to destroy religious Rome (Rev. 17). Actually, the Antichrist is allowed to destroy the Roman Church during the first half of the Tribulation since, if only in name, it bears the name of Christ.
The only division of the churches is based in Biblical locality accordingly, neither larger nor smaller that a governmental city-local boundary. The church local is both the maximum and the minimum. How man has fallen on this crucial point that solves so many problems today in the church. Wherever differences may lie, they are contained within the locality itself, and unlike a denomination would not spread through the organization to other locales.
Informal apostles ought to give up control of a locality as they build the church. They never take ownership. They only act as advisors. Though sometimes they fulfill a double role as elder as well, but the act of apostleship does not take control over any locality unless they are an Elder of a locality. Nor do such apostles receive formal training to be an apostle since their informal apostolic authority is directly given by God, not a Bible school or seminary. Resumes are not involved. This all makes for well constructed delegated authority by God.
Waiting for 12 in agreement, an equal number of men and women!
Praise the Lord!