The Local Class: Is it mistress in her own midst?
Some Pilgrims and Auxiliary Pilgrims especially in the Midwest have complained that a local Ecclesia rejected their service. Do these Pilgrims have a right to complain or are they in gross violation of the arrangements and should right their course?
PT 1979 Page 47 Par 3
2 comments:
Well, I've been thinking about this one...
Yes, the local class is autonomous and mistress in her own affairs... YES! IT IS WRONG for Pilgrims or Auxiliary Pilgrims to Murmur and complain if they have an issues about a classes decision not to accept their service... The proper attitude would be to accept the decision as the Lord's will in the matter...
What happens and takes place in a local class is nobody's business who is outside that class... Yes, nobody's business including the Executive Trustee and any other appointee of the LHMM...
Any pilgrim that thinks that they have the right to be offended when the local ecclesia rejects their service is either unfamiliar with the arrangements or is filled with pride.
Look at E Vol. 7, pp. 286-287
"In their ministry, however, these prophets have no "rights" to control any church, churches or the Church. Nor have they a right to speak in any church, except
by request of that church. Their office by God's appointment authorizes and qualifies them for a ministry in any church; no church, churches nor the Church should permit them to force their ministry on them. Nor are they to force their ministry on a church; rather they are to wait until they are invited to serve, even as the Apostles had no right to minister in a local ecclesia, unless invited by it so to do. . . though they can vote to have or not have him serve them, just as they think best; and their decision is to rule in the matter; nor has a "Secondarily Prophet" a just ground for a grievance, if any church chooses not to have him speak in its midst."
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