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Ah so you're still so blind!

Forum: Theological Expressions
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Helping My friend RTC to see. (frank)
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Something for Frank (RTC)
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How big should one house church grow to, before a new one should be started?
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Life decides size (RTC)
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Nonsense!!!!
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Rebutting your nonsense (RTC)
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Refutting your errors!
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Now refuting your errors (RTC)
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RTC doesn't know how to read the Bible!!?!!
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You don't seem to fare any better either (RTC)
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You read the commentary, I read my Bible,
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I read my Bible and my commentary (RTC)
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Can misread Bible, can also choose only the commentary you want.
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And that applies to you as well (RTC)
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The commentary you quoted doesn't even support your housechurch theory.
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You can't even read the commentary properly (RTC)
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Which dumb commentator will tell you that the local church is...
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Ah so I am vindicated! (RTC)
Date: 2001, May 03
From: <Anonymous>

We are discussing the theory that you have that churches must be small (which you thought the NT housechurches were) in order to meet in a family setting in homes, not whether they have one large building to meet in or not. I already said the early Church need not necessarily meet in tiny assemblies all over one city. The house in Acts 1 already can take 120 people and that's just indoors. When the Day of Pentecost arrived, the church spill into the streets. They met then in public places (the Temple grounds b4 the persecution by Saul):-
"So, in the weeks that followed the first Christian Pentecost, the believers met regularly in the TEMPLE PRECINTS FOR PUBLIC WORSHIP AND PUBLIC WITNESS, while they took their fellowship meals (THIS IS YOUR CONFUSION : you mistook the main activity is round the Lord's Supper and all other parts of the church service revolve around a dinner table) in one another's homes and 'broke bread' in accordance with their Master's precedent. The part of the temple precints where they seem to have gathered habitually was Solomnon's Colonade, running along the Eastern side of the outer court. Their community was probably organized along the lines of the voluntary type of organisation called a haburah, a central feature of which was the common meal. The common meal could not conveniently be eaten in the temple precints, so they ate 'by the households' (as the Greek phrase may be translated)" from the Book Of Acts by FF Bruce.
When persecution arose, they then met in large private homes.
"The wealthy house of NT times in Palestine was similar to the Roman house everywhere. There was an outer court with its surounding rooms, and behind it a second court with its adjacent rooms." from The New Bible Dictionary. Acts had given us 2 houses with gates and one 3 storeys high. So how small must the housechurches of Judea or the surrounding Mediterranean regions be??? Yet these housechurches do not function as independent churches of each other but as the groupings of the local church in the city. But they are one church not many churches. That's why Paul's epistles are always to the ONE LOCAL church of the city.

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