- When do you have local church action? (continued)
- When there are Christians living and taking action in a particular area?
- Is geography the deciding factor? Are Christians automatically part of the church which assembles the closest to their residence?
- Acts 9:26-28
- When all local church members act together in spiritual work?
- I Timothy 5:16
- Acts 4:32-5:4. Note the difference between one’s own money, and that which has been given into a common fund. (See also John 12:3-6 – can you pilfer your own money?)
- Acts 4:37 - “laid it at the apostles’ feet” implies that the money was under the control of the apostles. It does not mean that the money now belonged to the apostles.
- Matthew 18:15-17
- Collective: more than a plurality – it’s acting as one.
- Singular:
- One link of a chain
- Christian
- Matthew 18:15-17 – You
- Plural
- Multiple links of a chain
- Christians
- Matthew 18:15-17 – 2 or 3 witnesses
- Collective
- The entire chain
- Local church
- Matthew 18:15-17 – church
- Singular:
- Collective: more than a plurality – it’s acting as one.
- Philippians 2:25,30; 4:14-18. Note that Epaphroditus delivered the money, but the work was that of the Philippian church.
- I Corinthians 11:17
- Philippians 1:27
- When there are Christians living and taking action in a particular area?
DW
October 16, 2013
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