CHAPTER 5

QUESTION: How can we say that there is only one group of Christians who are correctly gathered on a divine basis, and that only they have the Lord in their midst, when there are so many groups of pious and devoted Christians who meet with sincere motives? This sounds extremely prejudiced and sectarian.

ANSWER: Teaching that the Spirit of God has a gathering center in Christianity in the world today -- a place where the Lord has placed His name and where the Spirit of God is gathering people -- is probably the most hated point among all the questions people raise. It may seem quite prejudiced and sectarian, but when you consider what the Scriptures teach concerning the ground of gathering for Christians, the only honest conclusion you can reach is that there should be only one divinely recognized center of gathering on earth. To have doubts about the possibility of there being a divine center of gathering in Christianity is to lose sight of some important principles of the Word of God on this subject. Therefore, in order to answer properly we need to re-establish the basic principles involved in gathering, and let the Scriptures draw their own conclusions for us.