Church

The Church loves its history. It loves its past successes and triumphs. We should celebrate the amazing things that happened in the past. The testimonies of what God has done are an encouragement and build faith for the future. But, what we tend to do is camp there. We want to reproduce our past glory and not keep moving as the Spirit moves. I will post more about this in the future as I have a number of examples of this problem, but I wanted to get one of my favorites posted to start the discussion....

If the fall never happened, would the church exist? Would there be a need for the organization of the Church (choosing my words carefully here)? No. There would be probably be a need for organization as the population grew, but it would be like nothing we’ve ever experienced before. People would love each other. We would relate to the Father in a way that we’ve never seen because it would be both corporate and personal....