Not Only Did He Say It… HE MEANT IT

Well, that's a good segue into the occasion for which Adam is is joining me on the podcast today

Here's what happened. This is what you said If you and several friends get together to quote have church you didn't a church has offices shepherds structure

Etc without a pastoral office. There is no church period

Adam first of all, how dare you and second of all Did you mean what you said here

Yes, I 100 % mean what I said I don't think this is an opportunity for me to double down saying that it couldn't have been said better But I as we explore the intention behind it and hopefully what

I would the intended meaning rather of the post hopefully that becomes more clear to people because that's all

I really wanted to do was make this very clear and And I don't think it was it was playing within the

Twitter 40 characters rule I haven't paid for premium yet. So it's one of those things where you have a post

It's like this could have probably been more clear. I'm I guarantee you 90 % of what I say could be more clear it's one of the dangers you take by taking on social networks, but No, I stand completely by it a church has structure and structure is a good thing and structure has been given to the church by God by God himself and as we see through the

Apostolic writings through Paul the Apostle first Timothy 3 our story in Acts 2 the

Sort of the conception of the New Testament Church ever since Pentecost There's been a way things should go inside a local body of believers, and I think there's been

Somewhat understandable reasons as to why there was pushback because if they interpreted it

To mean that I was saying that the church is not a body of believers And that is not what my intention was the church itself is a body of believers if you mean the global church

It's the body of believers. This was said in a local church context and the reason

I thought that would be clear is because I said offices and What I didn't expect

I really didn't expect this at all and this probably might be some of my naivety Maybe you don't have this problem, but I did not expect for them to read offices

And think Steve Carell's the office like an actual like an actual building with offices is

Needed for there to be a legit church. I don't believe that That's I just want to go on record and say no.

I don't think that a legit church has to have offices Actual building metal offices.

I think that would be ludicrous. So if you responded that way Thinking that I meant metal offices you are justified in your response.

That's just not what I meant We can all agree that if you had meant literal office space that it would be a ridiculous take