Eliesus wrote:
We have converted the koinonia of the Body into a franchise business focused on weekly motivational speaking seminars and musical entertainment.
...and in doing so, a new paradigm/premise from which to define the saints "assembling together" has been established within the experience of the believer.
This alternate expression/lifestyle has replaced a vastly larger dynamic that the Spirit of God could guide us as benefactors and contributors within the Body of God's anointing. In this surrogate model of assembling, size/numbers replace the free-flow of access to "whomsoever will" that the Spirit will lead us to connect with. This system has even greatly curtailed mobility involving the giftings and servant ministries (
Eph 4), static becomes the norm, dynamic the exception.
In this creation of a surrogate system of saints assembling in a very specific, finite local group, fidelity, loyalty and alegience to a new man-made thing is introduced. Oh what a tangled web we weave.
I offer NO dispute with the admonition that Chan would have us be reminded of; DO NOT FORSAKE our ASSEMBLING TOGETHER! The construct authored by men to create a myriad of local churches does JUST THAT. We are expected to pledge our allegiance to some thing that has been authored by men, thus dramatically curtailing our free assembly with those who our Lord will lead us to serve and be served by.
Without a surrogate system where men can better make disciples unto themselves, the countless SECTS would lose their sponsoring energy. Without a central command structure authored by individual men, each individual must seek the Spirit to be led concerning his own calling and election. At the end of this life, each individual will face their own Lord to provide an account of what we have done with the precious treasure we have been given.
God is one. He has one body. He has one head over that body.
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