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Being versus Doing. Good versus God.

Being versus Doing I once thought that in order to experience the living Spirit of God, it’s a good idea to lay aside secondhand preconceived ideas about him. I no longer think that it’s just a good idea. I am now convinced that it’s a requirement. It simply won’t work the other way.

There are too many that rush into their calling without being personally equipped and commissioned by Jesus Christ, and the results speak for themselves. We don’t know how to hear God’s voice with clarity, we don’t know how to defeat the enemy with predictable results, we don’t know how to influence people on the heart level.

Apostle Paul went to a desert immediately after conversion, and didn’t come out till he met Jesus face to face. Our conventional wisdom today would have told him to become part of a local church right away. Paul did do that in a few years, but not until he experimentally connected with living Christ. Apparently, being in a desert with Jesus offered him more that being in Jerusalem with the other apostles.

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Scripturally, only the membership in Christ is of eternal value, and that’s the only kind that you will find it mentioned explicitly throughout the New Testament (particularly in Paul’s writings) many times.

Membership in a religious organization can have potential value, as far as its realm of influence is concerned, and as long as membership requirements coincide with (and not supplant) the New Testament theology, comply with the New Testament model of servant leadership, and don’t overreach into a person’s freedom in Christ in a cult-like fashion.

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