Every Believer is Led by the Holy Spirit

All the believers in a gathering participate in the worship. The only leader is the Holy Spirit. When we place one man as the leader, then the others do not participate, they become spiritually lazy for lack of moving of the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 14:26
"What is the outcome then, brethren? When you assemble, each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretation Let all things be done for edification."

The body of Christ is not a gathering of silent pew dwellers while one man speaks his own mind. The body of Christ is a gathering of people who are ALL led by the Holy Spirit to participate.

Our modern idea of one man preaching and everyone else sitting in the pew looking like lumps without substance is disobedience against the Word of God.

It is easier to follow a man who tells everyone else how to think than it is to trust the Holy Spirit to speak to each one in the gathering. Laziness, is what I call it, as well as fear of the false authority that stands in the pulpit.

An authentic man of God does not desire to control anyone, he knows he is merely the messenger who brings truth, lives by example and leaves all the rest to the Holy Spirit.

1 Peter 5
"5 The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
2 Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
3 Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being examples to the flock.
4 And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away."

The elders are to feed the flock and live by example. No where are they instructed to force or intimidate others into submitting to them.

Those who are led by the Holy Spirit will heed the words of the teacher, as well as evaluate them according to God's word on their own to be sure the teachers is speaking truth.

Anyone who believes everything the speaker says without evaluating it according to God's Word is a foolish hearer and will probably believe everything they like while ignoring whatever they don't like. These people are lazy and self absorbed, they need to repent and begin again to seek the Holy Spirit.

Stop following man!!!! Begin again to follow Christ. We are only led astray when we want to be led astray.

John 16:13-14 "3 However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come. 14 He will glorify Me by taking from what is Mine and disclosing it to you.…"

This instruction in John 16 is for EVERY believer in Christ, EVERY!!!!