Thursday, December 11, 2008
Church As Discipleship
Mark Roberts has been looking at church lately. During one series he looked at the Corinthian church and said:
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Our immersion within the body happens by the work of the Holy Spirit in the moment of our conversion. The theological fact of our connection to the body depends upon God’s action, not upon our own. Whether we choose to live in light of what God has done is up to us, however. Yet if you are a vital organ that has been transplanted into Christ’s body, you can see how counterproductive it would be for you to live apart from that body. Positively, both the body of Christ and your own life would be strengthened through your connection to the body, but weakened by your disconnection from it.Sometime short and sweet is the way to go in a post, so to this one, I just want to add some Old Testament verification:
Prov 27:17 - Iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.It's hard since sometimes the church tries to be something other than a whetting stone, but that is how the system works.
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