Not Only Did He Say It… HE MEANT IT

The Holy Nope

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

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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

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Etc without a pastoral office. There is no church period

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

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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

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

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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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

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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

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

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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.

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

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

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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