Has anyone thought about holding their services like Paul instructed? You know - in the 'old' apostolic style? (See
1Cor 5 for a 'working' example.)
Or, should the saints of God take up the task and responsibility of 'saving' people and allow the teachers to move on with the deeper things of God? (
Heb 5:11-6:6). After all, of what value is it for the preachers to continue to go over and over hell and damnation to those who have been established by God's Spirit as a holy priesthood?
Where is the teaching that equips the saints unto spiritual maturity and right relationship with God? What about the tools required to live an 'over coming' life? How to both live and to walk in the Spirit? The identification of an individual's spiritual gifts and the authority and freedom to exercise them? How to identify and work in the power of spiritual authority that a priest of God is to walk and function? Or, the identification, requirements, and training of a person in their spiritual calling?
And, please, do not tell me that all of these things are the responsibility of the local pastor! It is that kind of mind set that has allowed the western church to decay to the point it we find it in today. It is time for the children of God to stand up and once again to take personal responsibility for our own salvation and spiritual growth and to function as the integrated body of Jesus Christ in the world, and not some local religious country club that goes through the weekly religious performance rituals, thinking that somehow that will make us true disciples of Christ (students, those who actually study and learn from the Master Himself). Playing the same old role in a performance is not the same thing as being a committed student bent on becoming even as Christ as their goal.
Question: How has your personal relationship with Jesus matured (altered, grew) over the past year? Five years? Ten or even twenty years? Or, are you still quoting
Acts 2:38 as the cornerstone (Gospel Message) of the entire Bible?
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