“Each One Having” - An excerpt from True Fellowship by Art Katz "When you assemble," Paul says in 1Cor 14:26, "each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation." That is how the life of the Body is expressed to the Body. But where are we ever encouraged to "each one having"? Rather, we have been compelled to a passivity, and to looking up to trained men to conduct the service. Furthermore, we are only too willing to pay the cost of it that we might be absolved from spiritual responsibility of having to share a hymn, a psalm, a tongue, an interpretation, a prophecy, a revelation, or a teaching! The Body is therefore emaciated, being inadequately fed. We cannot grow, and we are therefore limp, disjointed and anemic. We are left weakened if this life-giving provision does not come out of, and into, our midst. There can be no excuse to justify our inactivity and passivity. When we come together, we should have prepared ourselves already in the place of prayer, fully expecting that God is going to quicken and bring something through us.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 01:40:42 +0000
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