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The Church Of The New Testament - Part 7d Series
Contributed by Sam Mccormick on May 15, 2018 (message contributor)
Summary: Part 7D is a continuation of the functions we observe in the church in its infancy, and corresponding gifts that enable and empower the functionaries to perform in their various roles.
Children don’t usually “play church” by:
• showing mercy
• helps
• consoling the grieving
• In general, practicing what Paul describes in 1 Cor 13 as “the more excellent way.”
• Children’s focus in on the machinations of our assemblies.
Those actions that reveal the Christian character that are borne of the Holy Spirit’s indwelling are not part of “playing church.”
We ought to ask ourselves: When we seek to be the church of the New Testament, did we ever grow up, and begin to recognize that the deeper meaning of the church is in the Christian character?
Or are we thinking we are the New Testament church because we conform to our impressions of what the first Christians did when they were assembled?
