Improper Assembly Of The Body Of Christ
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Improper Assembly Of The Body Of Christ
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Author : Bishop J. G. Riles Sr.
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2020-08-23
Improper Assembly Of The Body Of Christ written by Bishop J. G. Riles Sr. and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-23 with Religion categories.
Improper Assembly of the Body of Christ is a book written to challenge how the church today looks at, extracts, ingests, and dissects scripture, especially with our recipe used to congregate and formulate the assembling of the true church. This book is a strong reminder of the biblical protocol. As Jehovah stressed to Moses, “See that thou do all things according to the pattern shown thee in the Mount.” In this book, Bishop Riles seeks to reestablish biblical principles and truths. It is written to increase unity in the body of Christ and tear down and remove walls, barriers, and partisans never supposed to have been in the first place. It is to ensure that the blood of God’s truth circulates to the least extreme and remotest parts of the body of Christ. Pauper or king, Sunday stroller or Holy Roller, we must all strive to be the church of the faith, where everybody is welcome to take a seat. Some might be tempted to think that it is impossible to have unity—we are just too different! We come from different backgrounds and have different styles of praise and worship, we express ourselves differently, and we enjoy distinctively different things. You may ask, “Bishop, how in the world do you propose that we can be unified?” To achieve corporate unanimity, we must come to the understanding that unity is not “sameness or uniformity.” The Christian’s unity is a unity in diversity. Like Baskin-Robbins, we exhibit thirty-eight flavors and varieties. We can be different but not divided. We must learn not to compete or to compare but to celebrate our incompatibilities. God did not create the earth in just browns and earth tones. God views the world through a kaleidoscope. It is a beautiful bouquet. The church must be an array of multiplicity—multicolored and multicultural. The church is the “rainbow coalition.” God is calling his family in for suppertime. At suppertime, my mother’s rule was that she would never call us to eat at the table separately or individually. Instead, we all had to eat together at the same table at the same time or not eat at all. The church needs to be an accurate sample of unity and a proper example of what it truly means to unite and be a unit. If you dip a glass into the Pacific Ocean in California and you return to Texas with that glass of water, you cannot say you have the entire Pacific Ocean in a glass. But perhaps you have an accurate sample or a proper example of the Pacific Ocean in that glass. A cake, a pie, or even cornbread has many ingredients essential to the texture and flavor of the cornbread, pie, and cake. You cannot bake a pie or a cake with a cornbread recipe or with cornbread ingredients or bake cornbread with a pie or cake recipe or ingredients. In a cake recipe, all the ingredients are different, all the ingredients aren’t sweet or agreeable, but all ingredients are necessary for the success of delicious cake. Any ingredient alone is not a cake. Sugar alone does not constitute a pie or a cake. Flour, vanilla, eggs, or butter alone, independent of one another, does not make a pie or a cake or cornbread. It is not until you homogenize them and blend them—mix, mingle, marry, merge, scramble, and place them together in a hot oven—that they come together to make cake, pie, or cornbread. In this last hour, God is removing the walls, barriers, and partisans never supposed to have been there in the first place. God is scrambling up his church. He will keep on scrambling until you cannot tell where the yoke or the yellow begins and the white ends. He is going to scramble until we do not choose ministries based solely on race, culture, or ethnicity but based upon whether there is a move in that ministry. Like the black-and-white keys on a piano, the church belongs to all of us. It is time for us to go back to the Bible. God has given us his word to live by, and there is just no other way to please him.
A Body Of Divinity
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Author : Thomas Ridgley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1815
A Body Of Divinity written by Thomas Ridgley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1815 with Presbyterianism categories.
The General Assembly Of The Body Of Christ
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Author : William S. Whenham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
The General Assembly Of The Body Of Christ written by William S. Whenham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Doctrine and Covenants categories.
The Body Of Christ
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Author : James M'Chord
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1814
The Body Of Christ written by James M'Chord and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1814 with Lord's Supper categories.
The Assembly Life
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Author : Watchman Nee
language : en
Publisher: Living Stream Ministry
Release Date : 1995-03
The Assembly Life written by Watchman Nee and has been published by Living Stream Ministry this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-03 with Bible categories.
What Is Wrong With The Body Of Christ
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Author : Alesia Graham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-04-01
What Is Wrong With The Body Of Christ written by Alesia Graham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-01 with Religion categories.
The Assembly Life The Prayer Ministry Of The Church
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Author : Watchman Nee
language : en
Publisher: Living Stream Ministry
Release Date : 1993-05-01
The Assembly Life The Prayer Ministry Of The Church written by Watchman Nee and has been published by Living Stream Ministry this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-05-01 with Religion categories.
Realizing that God must gain the church as a corporate expression of Christ and not just individual, overcoming Christians, Watchman Nee presents practical fellowship in The Assembly Life that is directed toward fitly framing the believers who live within a particular locality into a living, spiritual, and practical dwelling place of God. In a world that is desperately in need of Him, God often seems limited in His operation and frustrated in His purpose. Despite the ever-present needs, there is no limitation in His ability. There is, however, a limitation in His willingness to work without the full cooperation of the church through prayer. The prayer of the church lays the tracks upon which God moves to fulfill His eternal purpose. In The Prayer Ministry of the Church, Watchman Nee presents the biblical principles involved in the type of prayer that can bind on earth what has been bound in Heaven and loose on earth what has been loosed in Heaven. Through the prayer of the church every limitation and frustration to the fulfillment of God's will can be effectively overcome.
As Iron Sharpens Iron
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Author : Ryan Brown
language : en
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Release Date : 2023-01-02
As Iron Sharpens Iron written by Ryan Brown and has been published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-01-02 with Religion categories.
This is a thirty-day devotional book, hoping to provoke thought and encouragement, as well as give some insight from a slightly different point of view. God uses us in different ways to reach different groups of people. As different as my points of view may be, they are not contradictory to God's Word. I use many life experiences to help illustrate messages. I hope to encourage the church as well as strengthen and equip you so you can utilize your God-given talents to share with a lost and dying world that we all are imperfect, but we're forgiven simply because we have accepted our fate as sinners and have reached out to the Savior. "As iron sharpens iron so shall a friend sharpen the countenance of another."
Evangelism
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Author : G. Campbell Morgan
language : en
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Release Date : 2016-09-06
Evangelism written by G. Campbell Morgan and has been published by Read Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-06 with Religion categories.
Written from the perspective of an imaginary Buddhist votary, this text depicts the life and character of the notable hero and reformer: Prince Gautama of India, the founder Buddhism
Finding Our Balance
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Author : Ronald P. Byars
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2015-03-27
Finding Our Balance written by Ronald P. Byars and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-27 with Religion categories.
Mainstream American Protestantism is suffering from an identity crisis. We are not fundamentalists, but it is easy to define ourselves in reaction to them. Paralyzed by the shock of a cultural turn toward skepticism, we are tempted to make allies of the skeptics, partly to distance ourselves from the religious right and partly to lay claim to credibility in a milieu in which it is okay to be spiritual but not to be religious. A consequence is that we find ourselves playing in the shallow end of the pool. The historic Protestant principle serves as an enabler when it privileges questioning over affirmation, causing us to lose the necessary balance between the two. American-style generic Protestantism as it has evolved does not have strong enough foundations to withstand cultural pressures. Discovering an identity worth being taken seriously will require revisiting the broad catholic and reforming tradition in order to find an authoritative rather than merely reactive voice. The challenge is theological, but not to academic theology. The challenge rather is to the theology that sustains the local congregation through teaching, certainly, but most pressingly through preaching and worship. The times call for thoughtful and strategic repositioning.