Christ Is All : No Such Thing as a Church
Interesting reading and compelling comparison: "NO SUCH THING AS A CHURCH
In order to get our heads around this topic we will have to remove our Greek style, tradition infected mindsets and flow with the Spirit of truth and revelation.
Please pray (Eph 1:17-18, 2 Cor 10:5-6) and proceed.
Because most Christians have been a part of the contemporary church for some time now it is quite natural to kick, at least a little, against truth that challenges where we’ve been and what we’ve done as the church.
In the same way as the children of Israel demanded a worldly leadership structure, when they cried out for a king (1 Sam 8:1-20), so to does the humanness of the church crave an institution as its identity rather than flowing organically in Christ. Due to Israel’s history repeating itself in the church it didn’t take very long for worldly institutionalism to arise, dominate and set in.
Read the full article (1720 words, 1 image, estimated 6:53 mins reading time)
In order to get our heads around this topic we will have to remove our Greek style, tradition infected mindsets and flow with the Spirit of truth and revelation.
Please pray (Eph 1:17-18, 2 Cor 10:5-6) and proceed.
Because most Christians have been a part of the contemporary church for some time now it is quite natural to kick, at least a little, against truth that challenges where we’ve been and what we’ve done as the church.
In the same way as the children of Israel demanded a worldly leadership structure, when they cried out for a king (1 Sam 8:1-20), so to does the humanness of the church crave an institution as its identity rather than flowing organically in Christ. Due to Israel’s history repeating itself in the church it didn’t take very long for worldly institutionalism to arise, dominate and set in.
Read the full article (1720 words, 1 image, estimated 6:53 mins reading time)
posted by Jason at 2/03/2006 06:43:00 PM
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