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Assembly Life (pdf)
Rethinking the Work (pdf inside)
Church is Local, Work is Regional
Where can I find a place to meet on the Lord's day?
How can I trust that they are the Church-body of Christ?
If you agree with the questions for Apostles and Elders when registering at Biblocality Forums, the next step would be to join group memberships (in your profile) to acknowledge you are an Apostle or an Elder. Once approved, you may add your map location on the Meeting Place Finder. "And God hath set some in the church, first apostles...[Are] all apostles?" (1 Cor. 12.28,29). The informal apostles (called "informal" because we are not longer in the apostolic age of the original apostles, but the same work is for today until Christ returns).
"And he called [unto him] the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two" (Mark 6.7). |
Are You an Elder of a Local Church,
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 according to governmental boundaries on Meeting Place Finder map to help others find where to fellowship in the local assembly (the boundary of the city).
As an apostle or elder, submit your map location. Add the "body of Christ" button (click at the bottom of the page) 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, etc.) ensure that he or she agrees with these questions. Even if there is dissension of multiple Christian organizations, sects and denominations in a locality, they at least recognize their elders. Eventually, denominations will be a thing of the past. The sooner we do this the sooner Christ returns. Satan then reacts furiously.
Usually on the return trip after the churches are formed, the elders are selected after given some time to digest these truths. There is no independent moves in the church-only agreement and harmony!
There will be many meeting places. The best size of fellowship is 50 to 100. It could be as little as 2 or 3 persons in a remote area, but should not be more than 3000 to 5000 in congested areas (using Acts as the guideline). 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. But it is certainly going to happen and by the Holy Spirit, 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." We know Christ is needed by His return to destroy religious Rome (Rev. 17). The Antichrist is allowed to destroy the Roman Church during the first half of the Tribulation since, if only in name, for it at least bears the name of Christ. Then Christ separates the wheat from the tares that trying to look like the saved wheat.
The only division of the churches is Biblical locality and is not larger nor smaller that an established city. 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 unlike a denomination that 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 of an equal number of men and women!
Praise the Lord!