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NASB | 1 Corinthians 12:12 ¶ For even as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Corinthians 12:12 ¶ For just as the body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts, though many, form [only] one body, so it is with Christ. |
Subject: 'Lone rangers' and spiritual discernment |
Bible Note: My dear sister: I admire your zeal and your heart. But I would encourage you that we have to find our place, in the kingdom, with the church. Please do not misunderstand. Many of us have experienced the struggle you went through. We are a part of the church in a day when hardly anything is the way it should be. But the Lord does not call us to step outside the church. We have to work with them. The church can send us out. But we can not walk away from it and say we are in ministry for God. Notice I say "it", because the Bible recognizes only one church. We have to find a way to work with it. For those who chafe at the idea, I have found I can only recommend that we take Joshua and Caleb as our examples. They wholly followed the Lord (Num 32:12) and they found they did not have to leave to do that. Look at your own post. Look at the changes from "we", "our", and "us" to "I", "me", and "my". I have a feelings, a calling, and a ministry, but we must work together. |