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RTC: Return To Christ 
church in Jurong West vicinity 
City Harvest (Liz R.)
Sorry, City Harvest is not Traditional Church, Lolz...eom (Emmanuel)
The true City (Ivan)
Impressive (RTC)
What great feats of men to turn the wasteland into a holy masterpiece sanctuary of God! (Ivan)
Reasons??? (RTC)
I believe every building of a new church is a testimony of the members' faith in a great God (Ivan)
I can see that, but can you see this? (RTC)
In times like these (Ivan)
Living in the Old? (RTC)
The Old and the New (Ivan)
reply (RTC)
I am... (Ivan)
What about my questions? (RTC)
I try... (Ivan)
Place of worship???? (RTC)
I think... (Ivan)
It is heartening.... (Ivan)
Best of both worlds?? (RTC)
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From your postings, you have presented several issues of church life and practices which appears to be Biblically sound and justified.
CHURCH AUTHORITY By trying to question the church structure, in fact you are questioning the God-ordained authority. It is God who also set up secular authority for us to submit within God's framework of righteousness and justice. CHURCH BUILDING You have denied the practical and call it unbiblical. You fail or refuse to see that a home is also a building and it remains so without family members living in it. You dare not say that it is outrightly wrong to have a time of corporate worship and celebration of victory in Jesus in a building dedicated for this purpose. And when it is practical to incorporate a Theology School, Nursery, Tuition classes you label them as unbiblical or "vile" which may be in your thinking. You may want to carry it further to even question the use of "bread" element in Holy Communion practice, and that water baptism must be done in the Jordan river where the Lord Jesus was baptised, etc. How sad and how far back we have fallen! How religious one can be! UNDERSTANDING OF TERMINOLOGY I think that this can be attributed to wrong teaching or ignorance. We have been taught that there is no such thing as a part-time Christian (or call it laity) and leave all the church things to the clergy (fulltime). We are all fulltime Christians in the service and business of the Lord Jesus; we need to return to totally follow Christ and to deny or die to self. CONCLUSION I have only covered the key issues which are central in accepting the present church practices and experiencing church life corporately and in home cells. We can still experience heaven on earth when we accept and expand the Kingdom of God in our midst which brings down the denominational walls of division. We can achieve it by welcoming the King of kings and Lord of lords in our midst. We await the day when we can see the city whose buider and maker is God. Be of good cheer,
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On "house of God" by Ivan, 2002, Jan 03
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