“How could the primitive (early) Christians exhort one another daily? How could they comfort and edify one another? How could they provoke one another to love and good works? How could they confess their faults to one another and pray for one another? How could they teach and admonish one another? How could they bear one another’s burdens if they never met together for the purpose of conversing on experimental religion and the state of each other’s souls? Whatever persons may say to the contrary, those churches, the members of which do not observe or in which they have not the opportunity of observing the forgoing precepts which are enjoined in the New Testament scriptures, are not based on the mode of the apostolic churches.” –From an early manual for Methodist Class Meeting leadership (quoted by Robert & Julia Banks in the book The Church Comes Home)
Posted on: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 00:47:09 +0000
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