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Originally Posted by Ferd
You have to see that "not forsaking the assymbling yourselves together" as more than showing up to hear someone preach.
The point here is we need human connection. period. we need friendships and relationships.
Ever see a good kid start hanging with a bad crowd? that kid will go bad.
Ever see a bad kid start hanging with a good crowd? that kid will go good.
Why? because that is how we are geared. somone with no roots will blow away.
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Threads like this really do scare me (sorry I guess I frighten easy
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Our word choices really do identify where our confidence is established. If our "rooting and grounding" is established in some local congregation founded by a guy who fellowships with a member-minister group, we are vulnerable to anything that may be common to men.
If on the otherhand Christ dwells in our hearts by faith; then we are able to be rooted and grounded in love.
So, like everything else in God, we will answer to him [our master] for where we ground our lives and extend our life-giving root system. Assembling within the fellowship of believers is a God-ordained gift, a wonderful blessing where our connections[joints] can be portals for supply and receipt.
I want to develop and foster as many of these connections as God has out there for me; each joint supplying between member to member, within his own body.
My rooting and grounding is NOT established within the frameword of a human congregation. We fellowship within the Spirit of his Christ, not the spirit of a man-sponsored club/association.
Whether implied, or overtly reguired, any expected fidelity to some local congregation will directly limit the life-giving number of connections(joints) that God can supply the members of his own body, his own house, his own handiwork.
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