Brandon and Stephen - Latest Hope for the Church

The latest greatest hope for the Church that I am aware of.

To Brandon and Stephen,

There are many denominations in a city which is against Scripture, because the universal Church is not suppose to be divided by doctrine, only locality. Denom sounds awfully close to demon. Any doctrinal differences can be resolved locally or remain unresolved as it is up to each church locale of believers (headed by the elder for that locality who is appointed by an apostle for the region of churches that elder is in), but do not spread globally through a denom. The starting point though is to accept the church is of a city or remote area WITHOUT A QUALIFIER.

How do we know this? The Bible says don't say I of Cephas, or I of Apollos or I of Christ.

When the term church is used it is applied locally, e.g. church of Ephesus in the churches of Asia Minor or the church of Jerusalem in the churches of Judea. Not the Pentecostal church of Jerusalem or the Baptist church of Antioch. How silly. Satan is lov'in this. He has got the church doing back flips over itself. And I for one am embarrassed for the body of Christ, for all my brothers and sisters.

Fine, we know what the problem is and how Satan has tricked the Church. How do we fix it? It is hard to fix something that has been commonly accepted as a manageable problem for 1900 years. God's children have become complacent doing everything else but organizing the Church properly. I really don't think Christ will return until He sees at least a working model in place working to some extent according to Scriptural locality in the hearts of believers and outwardly practiced.

The question is simple: how do we make it come about, guided by the grace of God and His Holy Spirit? Since cause and effect is the issue here: the apostles need to be right before the rest of the body can get it right, we need to establish agreement of the apostles to set up the churches WITHOUT QUALIFIERS. Once we can establish 12 or more apostles in agreement each of us 12 or more can move forward (because there are no independent moves) in our own region of churches to appoint elders of a locality who in turn approve of elders of meeting places in their locality. That is exactly what I have tried to do at Biblocality Forums. But there are no bites. I am waiting for apostles to present themselves in agreement.

I won't be redundant. The varied many proofs, proven better than anybody to the best of my knowledge was done by Watchman Nee, http://www3.telus.net/trbrooks/bodyofchrist.htm

“According to the measure of the province which God appointed to us as a measure, to reach even unto you" (2 Cor. 10.13). "Appoint elders in every city" (Titus 1.5). "And when they had appointed for them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed" (Acts 14.23).

Rev. 2.1-7: "hast tried them which say they are apostles" (v.2); commend not to seek power of "Nicolaitans" (v.6 - those who conquer the people); "thou hast left thy first love" (v.4) of Biblical locality, for this is the way it was in the first century church period of Ephesus.

That is what is on my heart and am convinced it is true. Nobody can prove otherwise that I have ever seen attempted. It may take centuries before apostles act on it, if Christ does not return before then.

Bottom line: don't expect members of the body of Christ in general to act; apostles must find agreement upon this FIRST! Why? apostles were and are still the ones directly chosen by God to do this work. Nobody else ought to know better than the apostle.

Women apostles will need to step up too!

Apostles, know that Satan will be in your way every step of the way. He might say, there are no women apostles, or it is a trivial matter this Biblocality, or though there are some differences in denominations they are not major differences. Believe me, they are diabolically opposite to one another, e.g. OSAS vs non-OSAS; osas arminian, non-osas arminian, calvinism; premillennialism vs. amillennialism (or other historicalism); gap restoration vs. young earth; "that which is born of the flesh is flesh" vs. sinless Mariology; Christ to return to reign on earth for 1000 years or ethereal reigning; our being tripartite or bipartite; Scriptural locality vs. denominations and sectarian "party" spirits; is Jesus the bread or is the bread figurative; no Christian Sabbath or a Christian Sabbath; we go directly to God or intermediary priesthood; no Judaized Christianity or written codes, physical buildings and earthly promises of Vatican Rome; and it goes on and on and on!

Why isn't this preached?

I think the reason is it is embarrassing. There you are ministering, speaking about it, and people respond with a "duh," that is so obvious. You feel like an idiot that you have to tell a congregation of believers this is what God wants. But they look back at you dumbfounded nonetheless because they are no less guilty than you are for not doing anything about it. In other words, they sit there in the pews in a particular qualified denomination, or non-denomination ("I of Christ"), and don't make Scriptural locality a reality by walking out of that building and fellowshipping together under the name of the church of the city they are residing in.

I think the denominations have made it too easy for people to not think for themselves, walk into their premises and passively listen to whatever rationale is put forward why their denom is the right one. No denom or non-denom is the right one. That is a fact.