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Yeah..the ideal would be a core group with the pastor to meet and plan, hold each other accountable etc.. with the elders there. Some ifb churches have that. Still one local church..but with that core leadership group

Yeah good point..the pastor can be aloof and put on a pedastool by some in the congregation and there is very little help for congregation members who have issues like you say. Guess there is a place, if you have the capability, to have another pastor or deacon who can take that kind of issues...

A pastor preaches a sermon, what he preaches is more intensly applied to himself and the congregation. So there can be an issue of cognitive dissonance if they have issues with particular sins. From experience giving a message, I found the message I gave, I would be thinking on intensly...

Singular standing for plural grammar: The horse The cat The bar These aren't one universal horse, cat, bar etc.. So it goes for 'the church'.. singular standing for plural. Not one church in particular.. but the type of local church. 'The church ' is in decline.. using that rightly would...

https://awpink.org/2020/06/17/the-churches-of-god-1-thess-214/

'The church' is the pillar and ground of the truth. Clear reference to 'a' New Testament church. But not one in particular. It can't refer to a universal, invisible entity. Paul persecuted 'the church' He didn't persecute all redeemed..any kind of universal, invisible entity..but he did...

Define 'evangelicals'.. Because some say evangelicals are those who believe the Bible is the word of God. Maybe you are meaning, people who share their faith? Maybe you are calvinist?

I think his sense of universal church is the singular standing for plural. 'The church' meaning 'all churches'. And the end of church of all believers in heaven..which is a church in prospect. Both examples are visible and local. Of one type of church..singular standing for plural or of the...

Maybe the Ephesus situation would be the one local church meeting in different houses. https://www.tribune.org/the-new-testament-church-local-organized-visible-independent-and-complete/

Singular standing for plural. 'The horse is a magnificent animal ' That's not one universal horse, that's all horses plural counted as one. Same goes for 'the bar', 'the cat', 'the dog' Etc.. So with 'the church'..in scripture.. or 'the body'.. Singular standing for plural. 'There is one...

Temporal judgment on earth vs eternal judgment. A salvaged life vs eternal salvation Baptism 'saving us ' would be in this salvaged life sense. Not eternally, but in the temporal sense. Baptism 'for' the remission of sin... is because we already got remission ..not to attain remission.

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This 1st timothy passage referring to the local church!

Beginning of the church... If you say that the church is every believer.. the supposed 'big C' Church.. then you run into problems with timing of different groups. Israel in the wilderness were called a church, but weren't the NT local church. Jesus and His disciples did all the work of the...