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Reminds me of this discussion:
http://forum.gon.com/threads/do-you-have-apostles-in-your-church.184657/
and some of this:
http://forum.gon.com/threads/do-you-have-apostles-in-your-church.184657/
and some of this:
I would be hard pressed to not see that American Christians know to be under authority. That the authority rests from the individual's personal relationship with his maker, the bible and the local church with notions of A City on the Hill. These are features of the American Church.
Also the echo's of Thomas Pain's letters and Benjamin Franklin's ideas on politics and liberty were influenced by the pamphleteers, and local ( English) independent church ministers who were very vocal dissenters back in England and dissenters due also to their understanding of Christian values vs inequality in their political society ( in England and all of Europe). They were at odds with the political oligarchy of their times. They lived social and political injustice ---where the church was not always separated from the economic and social life ( politics and justice) of the people . They searched and studied scripture for a remedy--- and instilled into politics and society their remedies.
So what has come of the City on the Hill? Is authority within? So yes it still is. And that is the feature of the American Church.
So a church hopping question is a valid question in the context of American style Christianity. Since authority is within, why the need to hop? Why spawn off more "Christian" sects? And trying to find what the bible says about it all is typically American Christianity-- at the expense of mistrusting anything or anyone foreign--even other Christians.
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