I see many churches that try to follow Jesus. These churches read through an ancient record and try to follow what Jesus told the people 2,000 years ago. They read the stories and they learn from them. They take the writings of some of the Apostles and try to piece together the fragments to form a church body of some sort - though this, of course, leads to the myriads of Christian sects that are in existence. The fact is that the Bible is not a step-by-step priesthood manual on how to run the church that Christ organized and set his Apostles to run. Nor is it a complete record of everything that Jesus and these men ever did.
So, patterning your life after the book is good, it is helpful, it builds faith, it gets people to repent and become better. But looking to this record and trying to determine how things should be run in the church is a scary thought, since it was written with no such intent! If it was, it would be clear and concise and there would be one church of Jesus Christ, who would literally lead His church through His Apostles like He did before. He would appear to them as a resurrected being and give them instruction, He would give them visions and blessings, and He would direct them in all the problems of our day.
This is the church I am looking for and have yet to find it. A church that is LED by Him, not one that is trying to follow an incomplete archaic text and arguing over who has interpreted it better.
So, patterning your life after the book is good, it is helpful, it builds faith, it gets people to repent and become better. But looking to this record and trying to determine how things should be run in the church is a scary thought, since it was written with no such intent! If it was, it would be clear and concise and there would be one church of Jesus Christ, who would literally lead His church through His Apostles like He did before. He would appear to them as a resurrected being and give them instruction, He would give them visions and blessings, and He would direct them in all the problems of our day.
This is the church I am looking for and have yet to find it. A church that is LED by Him, not one that is trying to follow an incomplete archaic text and arguing over who has interpreted it better.