The Body of Christ

[Joe Maslow]

Although TWI doesn't teach it openly, it's possible for a person to infer from their teachings that they claim to be the "true Body of Christ" or "The Household of God" Why do I say this? Because they apply organizational principles that apply to all those born again by the Spirit of God to their organization.... and of course TWI claims to be the only organization that has the "rightly divided word".

Recently Vern Edwards during a STS said that "The Way Corps" was the best Christian training program in the world and that "The Way Magazine" was the best Christian magazine in the world. And...In my Facebook friends I used to have Bob S and other believers who lived in HQ and in most of their posts they talked about having the best of the best in every area of things. (Music, Programs, Events..etc)

Do you know any authors from whom I can learn how to deal with being part of the "Body of Christ" and dealing with people from different organizations that are also part of that "Body of Christ"?

 

 

Edited yesterday at 12:29 AM by Joe Maslow

[Raf]

I do not agree that The Way taught/teaches an equivalency between their followers and "The Body of Christ." 

The case that they consider themselves "the household" is ironclad, though I submit this makes them far from unique among religious sects. Others may not use the same terminology, but why even form a separate group if you don't think your group has it a little bit more correct than the one down the street.

 

[oldiesman]

11 hours ago, Joe Maslow said:

Although TWI doesn't teach it openly, it's possible for a person to infer from their teachings that they claim to be the "true Body of Christ" or "The Household of God" Why do I say this? Because they apply organizational principles that apply to all those born again by the Spirit of God to their organization.... and of course TWI claims to be the only organization that has the "rightly divided word".

Recently Vern Edwards during a STS said that "The Way Corps" was the best Christian training program in the world and that "The Way Magazine" was the best Christian magazine in the world. And...In my Facebook friends I used to have Bob S and other believers who lived in HQ and in most of their posts they talked about having the best of the best in every area of things. (Music, Programs, Events..etc)

Do you know any authors from whom I can learn how to deal with being part of the "Body of Christ" and dealing with people from different organizations that are also part of that "Body of Christ"?

 

 

My recollection of what TWI taught is that anybody (including anyone in TWI) that performs Romans 10:9 is born again and is part of the Body of Christ forever.    "Incorruptible Seed".     Whether you're in fellowship with God or with TWI, or not, you are "heaven bound and no power from hell can stop you from going".     And the only proof was SIT and without SIT you couldn't prove or REALLY SAY that you were.

My recollection again:   The "Household of God" was interpreted as being "in fellowship" with God and with TWI and in practice with all the principles.   It also meant you were an active member in TWI fellowships.    Did TWI teach that other christian groups were 'in fellowship with God'.    I think that was kinda fuzzy to me.     I thought that it depended on whether one was "standing on the Word" and of course the Word was only the TWI version.   So yeah, I think the general thought was that TWI was the only "household".

[WordWolf]

Old time posters will find this funny, but I agree with Oldiesman. (At least I agree with this last post!)

 

The meaning of "household" was never exactly defined, but in practice, seemed to equate with being a Christian at all- because any act of disobedience to twi would threaten to put you out of "the household".  Further, people like lcm were openly distainful of people leaving twi, and said they put themselves outside of God's protection and so on.  Any time something bad happened to someone who left twi, it was ALWAYS "because they left the household."  (Any time something bad happened to someone in twi, either they were blamed for not being faithful ENOUGH to twi, or the devil was going after them BECAUSE they were in twi.)   And lcm was quite vocal about how God's blessings won't reach someone who isn't in lockstep with twi.   There was a lengthy list of things which would result in a situation where "God won't even SPIT in your direction", most notably, tithing.    lcm talked about God spitting in our direction a lot.