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Mark,

Would this passage from 1 Corin 14 be considered ‘formal’ church:

29 Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others judge. 30 But if anything is revealed to another who sits by, let the first keep silent. 31 For you can all prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all may be encouraged. 32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. 33 For God is not the author of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.

1. What human in the formal ‘church’ decides who are prophets?
2. Who in the formal church gets to ‘judge’ what was said?
3. It says ‘all’ can prophesy one by one. Is that allowed in your formal church or is one guy preaching to many?
4. In this passage we can see that Paul thinks it is orderly to have many speak if they are quiet when others speak. Is your formal church doing this?