Search results

There is no successor to Jesus Christ. He rules His people from heaven through the Holy Spirit. Making popes is a human fabrication that seeks a temporal unity around a man-made understanding....that does NOT reflect the spiritual reality. Only Jesus Christ can hold sway over the church as a...

It may appear that way to one who doesn't think anyone can surpass his own lack.

I am seeking to make a point about the purpose of the gospel WITHOUT making an "either or" issue out of the private and corporate witness. We are living in a time and in a society that is individuality crazed. The fact that this seems okay reflects on the depth of the understanding of the...

What do you mean by a salvation issue? Are you thinking a life and death issue as in survival? The church is not there to save us...Jesus is. But if we wish to progress beyond mumbling and drooling we need the church...in order to move onto maturity. So we are talking about the depth of...

This is very true. The road to the seeking of making the church reflect the biblical witness is littered with casualties. But the other side of the equation is "because of lawlessness the love of many will wax cold". So the solution is not to give up on the corporate witness. Even Abraham...

It still doesn't clarity if it is God's objective truth...or what men want. For instance..are we being built into many different habitations of God..or one holy habitation? Does God have many houses or many rooms within the same house? Are we members one of another or do all just deal directly...

What is essential seems to differ from person to person.

And yet Paul was striving for the full stature of Christ. The narrow way is a race to attainment. To relegate the forming of the Body to a later date is a grave error...we see this error so much in the present churches. This relegating denies the present available grace that Jesus died to...

I like what XP had to say about maturity. We have to realize that the church is nowhere near the maturity level it is meant to be at. But what is missing? (I mean besides consecration and selfless love). I think the churches in general have no idea what they are supposed to embody. The focus...

Proclaiming the gospel is best done through the witness of a church that is actually walking in the Spirit and doing what Jesus is doing.

I mainly agree with you except I think you take the individual thing way too far...Does God want us to be each different kinds of beings??? Or are we to be in ONE body having different parts....but the exact same being in Christ? And what about the victory of God's people? Where do we see that...

Joh_16:13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. We see two opposing partisan views....but that constitutes what can be...

Axe, don't you see that you have stated to be only partly right? "We all have a part of it, but only He has all of it. " It is invariably the case that even so called "advanced" Christians have a good sense about Jesus (the Head) and even their own walk with Him....but completely ignore the...

All of man's ways are illusions. The Catholics TEACH unity because they see it in the bible and because it has been given them to emphasize this point...but of course they are unable to actually experience that unity because men can't control it. The fact remains that until the individuals who...

All this quibling is pointless unless there is an understanding of the will of God in Christ. All institutions are from men and have indoctrinated people (who do NOT have enough experience in spiritual things to discern where the errors lie) to defend the indoctrination they have received. The...

5 out of 10!!! :) Ephesians 2:18 - 22 For through him we both have access by one Spirit to the Father. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus...

good response

] The people are divided because they don't know enough of Christ. The early church operated at a significant depth of spiritual life and power. Today this is very rare....so the true witness is also very rare. But it is always there. We see the Spirit at work where there is persecution for...

Can anyone answer why it is necessary to forsake all in order to follow Christ and be His disciple?

This is propaganda. The bible lists "churches" in the plural. The witness of Christ on earth is plural. The Head of the church is in heaven...not on earth. The unity of the churches is maintained from heaven through the Holy Spirit. It seems that every possible error is being maintained. Some...