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"Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling" comes to mind first
and foremost of any scripture. What is not ok for me may not cause you to
stumble. Now I need a example to back up that statement- Let's think that
you Bro Bassett think it is okay to drink Moxie. I think it is a sin to
have the stuff for sale. So to keep my salvation I have to accept that I
can not drink Moxie and you can. Thus it is with SOME issues. If you were
my Pastor and said "don't drink Moxie" I better not drink it. I have
always raised my standard if the Pastor thought different or kept mine if
higher if I did not agree and always did not make a scene since he is the
Pastor. The manual is just this- that the pastor is the overseer and he
governs the local assembly and has to follow the guidelines of the
national constitution. 
When we "divided" our District, Bro Urshan kept to the letter of what the
manual said, even it did not deal with a issue such as we had. We were
willingly dividing ourselves into 2 districts. The manual dealt with what
to do with a group that wanted to seperate from a district. The basics
remain the basics. Wednesday evening Bible Studies determine the rest.
Brian Berger
Manchester, NH
Brian_Berger@JUNO.COM

PS I drank Moxie (a drink hard to describe) once and quickly repented.
When I was working with immigrants they had a hard time accepting me
drinking Root BEER- so thus the above example can stand.