I was talking to a Congregational Church deaconess yesterday. I asked her how her minister was doing in a large and thriving Church. She said: "The minister has strengths and weaknesses. In the Church, there's good and bad. But the minister has served us well. Sadly there are factions. One faction went to the minister's front door and abused him so badly that the police had to intervene." OBSERVATION: I said that, in the Congregational tradition, the Spirit moves on the whole Church. There is no place for factions. But Congregationalism may have some difficulty dealing with such behaviour, in spite of holding the ideal of a believers' Church. I said that the abuse was an example of failing to understand the concept of divine calling.
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