TylerRay
Puritan Board Graduate
I think part of the breakdown in this thread is that each is assuming that his own church polity is the norm. While local congregations will be ill equipped, the higher courts of the church are often well able to support those who are sent. If independency is assumed, however, there are no higher courts. Thus, the call for associations and parachurches.
I don't mean to turn this into a discussion of what Biblical church government looks like, but I think that's where the impasse is in much of this thread.
I don't mean to turn this into a discussion of what Biblical church government looks like, but I think that's where the impasse is in much of this thread.