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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="CENTER"><b>CITY
CHURCH & PRESBYTERY Concept - 2011-02-14</b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><b>For
God's Organic Laser-Telescope: The <u>Second</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">
Component Part - The City Church Concept with Eldership in Gate of
the City.</span></b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><u><b>Question</b></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>:
Which is easier - to build a house from scratch - or - to </b></span><b><u>remodel</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">
a house? With the latter, one never knows what complications he will
run into! </span></b>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">Paul
- built 14 city churches from </span><u>scratch</u><span style="text-decoration: none;">
- </span><u>much</u><span style="text-decoration: none;"> easier.
Today - denominations and sub-denominations - are so numerous - and
each - a unit and law unto itself.</span></b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="LEFT">
<b>Many local churches pay lip-service to city church unity - but -
in reality - the denomination usually has a controlling influence on
their local churches in a city - sufficient to guide strongly in
doctrine and loyalty - so that true city unity and functioning
elderships in the Gate of Cities - never truly happens.</b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in; text-decoration: none;" align="LEFT">
<b>But - it <u>does</u> happen in the 100 million members of the home
church movement in China! See the biography of Brother Yun - The
Heavenly Man.</b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><u><b>History</b></u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>:
How I received the City Church Concept with an Eldership or
Presbytery in the Gate. In 1949 I was enrolled in the Northern
Baptist Theological Seminary of Chicago. Once a week Marie and I
organized a street meeting, and brought some fellow students with us
to preach and give our testimonies and win souls and disciple them to
Jesus. Harry Conn was intrigued with these outreaches, and whenever
he could, would join us, and share his vision on “missions” with
us. Harry was Chief Engineer of Scully-Jones, the 2</b></span><b><sup><span style="text-decoration: none;">nd</span></sup><span style="text-decoration: none;">
largest tooling manufacturing company for “automation” in the
country. He had several hundred men working under him. Through his
lectures on both automation and optimation, he sold more tools for
his company that all their salesmen combined. </span></b>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><b><span style="text-decoration: none;">He
also introduced us to Roland Allen and his books - </span><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Missionary
Methods: St. Paul's or Ours</span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
- and </span></span><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The
Spontaneous Expansion of the Church - and the Causes which Hinder</span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">.
Mr. Allen was an Anglican from England, but felt there was something
sadly lacking in the world church situation. These two books set
forth his solution. He tried it out first in Northern China, and then
in East Africa; but not with the success he hoped for.</span></span></b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Then
in 1963 I came across Watchman Nee's </span></span><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">The
Glorious Church</span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">.
Here the author set forth his concept for the City Church - </span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;">One</span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
church per city, encompassing all local churches. Unfortunately, he
saw only his type of church as being the city church, and ignored all
others. So that didn't work either.</span></span></b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Then
in 1989 John Dawson wrote </span></span><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">Taking
Our Cities for God - How to Break Spiritual Strongholds</span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">.
He wrote this on the basis of what he observed in a western city in
the Argentine. This comes closest to what I see in the New Testament.
But it did not clearly point out a functioning Eldership or
Presbytery in the Gate of each City Church; though there did take
place unusual prayer results from the pastors in their meetings.</span></span></b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">But
on December 7, 2009, there was a break-through in prayer in Minnesota
north of Minneapolis, and at the same time God revealed to me the
last 5 component parts of His Organic Laser-Telescope, which He had
showed me in 1967, and confirmed in 1985. He said to me - “What I
have revealed to you in the past concerning My goals for the City
Church and Presbytery - I am about to activate.” I shared this with
the “Pilot Prayer Team” that I had inaugurated in October of that
year, but later turned over to Elvin Gladney for leadership. At the
close of this paper, I will list again these 7 parts, with short
revised notes on each.</span></span></b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Sometime
in the late '70's in Portland, Oregon - one of the local pastors
asked - “Why can't we through our local church bring unity to the
city church of Portland?” My answer was - because of your faulty
concept of the Presbytery. </span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;">Stop</span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
bringing outside elders into your church as a presbytery - and </span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;">start</span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
encouraging and using local Senior pastors to function as a city
Eldership in the gate of your city. Have outsiders come in to help in
the beginning - but </span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;">don't</span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
call them your presbytery. Your own City Elders are your City
Presbytery. The outsiders are but scaffolding until the local elders
of your city are enabled to function as a presbytery. Then - the
scaffolding can be removed.</span></span></b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">He
said he couldn't do that - his local congregation wouldn't stand for
this restructuring and time lapse. Then I told him - “Don't expect
then to see city unity in your locale.”</span></span></b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Next
- see that the restored Presbytery Concept in 1948 was severely
limited. It is </span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;">much
more</span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
than laying on of hands and prophecy over the 5-fold ministries. It
is more than 1 Timothy 1:18 and 4:14 - “</span></span></b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">This
:charge I commit to you, Timothy child, according to the </span></span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">prophecies</span></span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
which led the way to you, that </span></span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">by
them</span></span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
you war the good warfare: having faith and a good conscience” - and
“</span></span></span><b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Neglect
not</span></span></b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
the gift in you, which was </span></span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">given
you through prophecy, with laying on of the hands of the presbytery</span></span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">.”
</span></span></span><b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">This
was good for Timothy, and valuable for all ministries. But it doesn't
clearly spell out that the Presbytery or 5-fold Eldership in the Gate
of each City, had the privilege and responsibility of commissioning
and sending out all that the Holy Spirit should call. See Acts 13:1-3
- here 5 prophets and teachers from the City Church of Antioch were
meeting in a NT Levitical sense of “lei-tourGIa - spiritual
ministry” to the Lord! One time as they were so occupied, the Holy
Spirit took over and called Barnabas and Saul out for missionary
service. The 5 continued to fast and pray and worship, and when they
had confirmation that this was indeed the will of God - they </span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;">then</span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
commissioned these two, and sent them forth. When they returned it
was now Paul and Barnabas - and they returned as </span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;">apostles</span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">.
To read concerning their first missionary trip, it is easy to see the
reason for these two changes.</span></span></b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Then
the 12 apostles from the City Church of Jerusalem had the people
there choose 7 from among them to serve as deacons. The apostles then
commissioned these 7 to serve the entire City Church of Jerusalem in
waiting on tables, and other deacon responsibilities, freeing the
apostles for the ministry of the Word and prayer. There were probably
100's of churches in the home from which to choose the 7. This is
another Presbytery function.</span></span></b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">To
solve doctrinal problems in Acts 15, such as occasioned by the
Jerusalem Judaizers, who were disrupting the city churches raised up
for Gentiles. Paul stood for a “One New Man” concept for
Gentiles, who could fellowship with Messianic Jews, but </span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;">did
not</span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
have to be Torah observant as did the Jews. No circumcision for
Gentiles, etc. The Judaizers contended that Gentiles had to become as
Jews, be circumcised etc., to become acceptable to God and them.
Peter and James, the apostolic Jerusalem pastor, sided with Paul
against the Judaizers. </span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;">This</span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
was a city Presbytery or Eldership function in a most important
doctrinal matter!</span></span></b></p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">In
the Book of Ruth, a city Eldership or Presbytery solved an
inheritance problem for Boaz and a nearer kinsman-redeemer.</span></span></b></p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">These
- and others - are all functions of a city Presbytery or Eldership in
the Gate of each City Church. No “traveling” outside Presbytery
coming into to a city church, or functioning only for </span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;">one</span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
local church here; - causing even deeper divisions between the
various local churches within that city. Such is a </span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;">violation</span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
of </span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;">Protocol</span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
and is not Warfare by Honor.</span></span></b></p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Early
in my new Christian life, I did a Greek word study on “church -
ek-kleSIa”. It appears 114 times in God's Bible Numeric Greek NT:
once in Acts 7 it refers to Israel as the church in the Wilderness
through Stephen; 3 times it refers to the secular city citizens of
Ephesus, Acts 19; 14 times it refers to a local church in a house
such as for Aquila and Priscilla; 15 times it refers to the universal
church or called out believers - Jew and Gentile - past, present and
future; </span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;">but</span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
- </span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;">81 times</span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
it refers to the </span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;">City
Church</span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">!
14 of these references appear in Revelation 2 & 3 for the 7
churches named by Jesus. God invariably places </span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;">His</span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
emphasis of importance on a teaching or doctrine by the number of
references.</span></span></b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">So
- what is our present day emphasis? The </span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;">local</span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
church of 14 references! And what of those 81 City Church references?
Largely ignored. So - local pastors by and large take all the city
church concept teaching, and try to make it </span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;">all</span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
function in a local church context! Impossible! One Baptist church in
California of some 400 to 500 members had 4 pastor; 24 deacons; 7
elders; 7 trustees; 20 committee chairmen, plus a Christian School
and its officers! The original church of Jerusalem had but 7 deacons
for an </span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;">entire</span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
City Church! An Eldership composed of an elder representing each of
the 100's of local churches in the home. </span></span></b>
</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">So
- there is a Remodeling Problem for the City Church for us today.
Paul was fortunate in his day that he could start from scratch - </span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;">no</span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
denominations - just Jewish and Gentile believers and the Judaizing
Controversy. Perhaps that was not only enough, but an equivalent! </span></span></b>
</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">I
see by vision 70 cities in Canada functioning in this “Remodeled
Concept” - each with a typical group of 8 of the 5-fold ministries
sitting in the Gate of each city, and functioning as a City
Presbytery or Eldership. I see 70 more US cities functioning in a
parallel manner. Where Americans can't go because of the Vietnam
debacle, which produced a lack of confidence in us in Third World
nations; it can be hands-across-the-border - and American city
churches can “hold the ropes” for Canadian City churches to go to
the ends of the earth, spear-heading in evangelism and missions. Dr.
David Yonggi Cho of Korea 3 times prophesied this for Canada: in 1975
in Kelowna, BC; in 1979 in Toronto; and in 1984 in Halifax.</span></span></b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">This
City Church and Presbytery concept is the “Stand” or “Pedestal”
to support the other 6 component parts of God's organic
Laser-Telescope - to make the functioning of His Spiritual Star Wars
a Reality!</span></span></b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">In
conclusion, look at the 7 component parts of this concept: 1) God's
Bible Numeric </span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;">Outlined</span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
Interlinear Transliterated Greek New Testament for Laymen as prepared
by Russian Ivan Panin. 2) City Churches with a Presbyter or Eldership
in the City Gates. 3) Prayer Multiplication based on the </span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;">Covenant</span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
concept as outlined by Ern Baxter. 4) The 12 Embryonic Revival
Principles restored and brought together in the 1948 Visitation at
North Battleford, Saskatchewan - and now to be brought to maturity as
parameters of safety for the coming world Revival preceding the
Return of King Jesus! 5) A return to Bible Meditation as commanded to
Joshua in 1:8 by Moses - and picked up by George Whitefield and
passed on to George Muller with prayer and faith. 6) Full
Discipleship under the supreme control of the Holy Spirit as
demonstrated by Rees Howells and H.A. Baker. 7) And lastly - a
supreme, continual focus upon our Lord Jesus Christ - as set forth by
Oswald Chambers in his </span></span><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">My
Utmost for His Highest</span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">.
</span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;">This</span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
is personal, passionate devotion to Jesus!</span></span></b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">The
above 7, functioning together like a Pilot Prayer Team - can be used
by God to do </span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;">anything</span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
He wants - in cities, regions, nations and the world. </span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;">This</span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
is the </span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;">end</span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
of Satan's machinations through “Antichrist”, the false prophet,
wicked angels, demons, beasts, etc.</span></span></b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="LEFT"><b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Read
the last chapter of the Book of Revelation. </span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;">Jesus</span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
is </span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;">Victor</span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
</span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;">not</span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
satan and evil! Rejoice, O earth, for your deliverance and salvation
draws nigh! J.A.W</span></span></b></p>
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