The Church is bigger than...
Learn to say this phrase: the Church is bigger than ---
What is the Church bigger than? Whoever is speaking with the sense that the Church is what they are.
To the Pope: the Church is bigger than you.
To the Reformed pastor/theologian: the Church is bigger than you.
To the independent, fundamentalist: the Church is bigger than you.
To the liberal/leftist Christian types: the Church is bigger than you.
To any who affect to appropriate the Kingdom of God on earth to themselves and their program...the Church is bigger than you.
Oh, but (they say), one must define what Church is! Thus, my seminary degree and this branch/denomination with its history that goes back (some, not many) to before we were born defines what church is!
No... The word of God and the Holy Spirit in the quickened, regenerated heart and soul of each Christian defines what Church is.
The word and the Spirit; not man and ritual and building.
The Kingdom of God exists in the new heart of every regenerated believer.
The Church is bigger than you.
2 Comments:
The original response to Jeff's voice message starts here: https://youtu.be/sVWVk_7LAig?t=1413
JW initially plays it down, pretending that Jeff really isn't worth the time of day, after all he is just a 'Twitter handle'. I could label JW a bunch of moving colored pixels on a screen but that would be dumb...right? That would be akin to labeling the Bible as a bunch of black lines and dots on some paper. James White was TRIGGERED.
He speaks like a snarky teen, it's all about him, very little about the Lord and the Holy scriptures, or the Church. Perhaps James should rethink the name of his ministry 'Alpha & Omega Ministries', as far as know the Lord is the Alpha and Omega, not some man created ministry. I just scanned a number of his video's for the first time and they are all the same, they are all about promoting James White - they lack any depth.
W.
That's an interesting catch on what he named his ministry. All truth begins and ends with him. The snarky teenager thing though overrides all else. He's just not a serious voice. What is interesting is to see how he is treated on the PuritanBoard. The moment someone criticizes him (and I mean someone who is a pastor or published writer or PhD) the thread gets shut down. This suggests White taps into Satanic spirit and the world fearers at the PuritanBoard (and there are many) feel that and thus treat him like he's untouchable. For a person to have that vibe they have to give away their soul. They have to be glass-eyed. White's work for the downgrading of the word of God itself is his payment to the Kingdom of Satan.
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