Christ's church operating is not a thing of my words.
Well actually, that is the very kind of idea you used in your previous post... the idea of how Churches
operate...
You said:
"Is the church today
operating in spiritual gifts, and is it led of the Holy Spirit? Mostly, the church is led by money (mammon), hierarchy, which goes directly against the teachings of Jesus, and one pet doctrine."
It's obvious that you're raising concern over 'how' the Church is 'operating', either with spiritual gifts or by "mammon". Thus my question to you of how YOU think it SHOULD operate.
Christ's church operates in the Spirit. How can I tell you how it's supposed to operate, when every church might operate differently (as far as appearance) because that part of the body has different gifts and men in it? The 'rule' is that it must operate by the Spirit. What it looks like? You cannot put a pattern on it.
But God DID put a 'pattern' on how we are to worship Him through His Son in His Church, and Apostle Paul covered it in his Epistles. Have you not read that Scripture?
If you want a few simple things though:
-The church is led by men who, elders, who are wise and seasoned, as far as learning of and walking in the Spirit. In the modern church, it's all about a formal education. What did the Pharisees say about John and Peter? They have never been educated, yet they have been with Jesus. Today's church is led by men who HAVE been educated, and haven't really been with Jesus.
-Paul says that when we come together all may exercise their gifts, bring a song, a teaching, etc. Today's church has ordained people bringing songs, an ordained pastor bringing a teaching, and a crowd who is only there to sit through it.
-Paul said that when a prophet speaks, the rest of the prophets discern what he says. The church doesn't have 'prophets', it has one teacher or pastor.
It should operate in the truth, walking in what God has commanded.
Christ's Church is led by Him by The Holy Spirit through... men, those whom He called. And it is very much includes learning in God's Word (Scripture)...
John 2:22
22 When therefore He was risen from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
(KJV)
Luke 24:44-45
44 And He said unto them, "These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning Me.
45 Then opened He their understanding,
that they might understand the scriptures,
(KJV)
If THAT is not about 'education' in The Word of God, then I don't know what else it would be.
Suppositions of men that Christ's disciples were all poor and unlearned in The Scriptures is nothing but a vain tradition of men. There's no Biblical evidence to show that Christ's Apostles were illiterate of Old Testament Scripture. Luke himself was a doctor, a field even then that required being learned.
The main point of that Luke 24 Scripture above is that our Lord Jesus made SURE His disciples were learned in Scripture in order to fulfill their ministries He had given them to take The Gospel to the nations. By our Lord Jesus choosing Apostle Paul, who was a Hebrew scholar in the Old Testament (the only Scripture written of that day), and that Paul would write the majority of the New Testament Books ought to be another lesson of how our Lord Jesus values being disciplined in His Word!
I don't know what child of darkness has put into your mind Prentis that the idea of 'learning' in God's Word means the same thing as what the blind Pharisees were doing, but that's apparently the idea they've put into your mind.
Did you know that in the early American colonies, Christ's Church is how the universities in the U.S. got started? Most of the oldest universities in the U.S. were founded by The Church.
If you took more time to study you might discover the main reason for so many divisions within Christ's Body is because of a 'lack' of education in God's Word with discipline. Paul said to study to show yourself approved of God, a workman who need not be ashamed, rightly dividing The Word of Truth (2 Tim.2:15). And as long as Christ Jesus calls servants that will do that, that's why they will continue to stand in front of His congregations to preach and teach His Word, while those like yourself won't be.