Depending on Men Rather than the Holy Spirit?

The whole idea that there is a need to "train" men for the ministry in special schools may have started well but does not finish well because the idea was based on men making sure they did things the right way, without the help or use of the Holy Spirit.

John 16:12-14 "…12 I still have much to tell you, but you cannot yet bear to hear it. 13 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.…"

When the Holy Spirit teaches us we will not be in error. When men think they can do something better than the Holy Spirit then there is much error.

We see no example of men of the Bible attending any formal schooling or being ordained by men to prepare for the ministry. The apostles and disciples were trained by the Holy Spirit and by individual men who had already been trained by the Holy Spirit.

God gave clear instructions in the nature of the gathering of believers in His Word, there need be no other methods or rituals than what God gave us in His Word, the Bible.

A person can work up in their own mind something they wish to believe hanging onto it so long and repeating it so many times that eventually they actually believe it.

Once this happens to an entire culture it is nearly impossible to convince people of the truth. Whenever we have an entire culture supporting our desired belief system then we must go against the culture becoming an outsider and losing friends in order to follow the truth.

1 Corinthians 14 describes the plurality of leadership and the involvement of the believers, there is no such thing as a one-man-paid-pastor in this gathering. No one is paid, all the men participate and each is led by the Holy Spirit.

It takes faith to operate in the gathering the way God said to do it, it takes depending on the Holy Spirit without a human leader. The leader is the Holy Spirit.

Most Christians today do not depend on the Holy Spirit they depend on those educated in human institutions with degrees ordained by men, as though these people know more than Christ Who lives in us. Pretty silly isn't it!!!!!