The whole church system of today is not biblical. Some people are beginning to realize this and coming out from among the organized church's buildings and hierarchies.
Christ is only magnified when His Word is followed and believers seek to do things the way He instructed in His Word.
No hierarchical leadership except the Holy Spirit and no special building treated as a temple. Our bodies are the temple now, we meet together anywhere at anytime without manmade rituals. Those who do lead are servants of all without authority over the others. The only Authority is the Holy Spirit.
It has only been in recent years that God is opening the understanding to what His gathering should be and how far from it the modern church has become. This is another indication of how close we are to the end of this church age.
God is not growing the church as much as He is purifying it by removing authentic believers from the false system to return to the first century model.
That is not to say that everyone in the modern church system is not saved, it just means that those who don't leave remain stagnated and unable to exercise their gifts in a system that discourages individual participation in the edification of the whole group by one another.
When the one-man-paid-pastor runs everything and acts as an authority over the gathering they are silencing others refusing to allow open discussion and leadings of the Holy Spirit.
Ephesians 5:19
Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord,
Colossians 3:16
Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.
Romans 12:6-8
"We have different gifts according to the grace given us. If one’s gift is prophecy, let him use it in proportion to his faith; / if it is serving, let him serve; if it is teaching, let him teach; / if it is encouraging, let him encourage; if it is giving, let him give generously; if it is leading, let him lead with diligence; if it is showing mercy, let him do it cheerfully."
1 Corinthians 12:14-26
"14 For the body is not one part, but many.
15 If the foot says, “Because I am not a hand, I am not a part of the body,” it is not for this reason any less a part of the body.
16 And if the ear says, “Because I am not an eye, I am not a part of the body,” it is not for this reason any less a part of the body.
17 If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole body were hearing, where would the sense of smell be? 18 But now God has arranged the parts, each one of them in the body, just as He desired.
19 If they were all one part, where would the body be?
20 But now there are many parts, but one body.
21 And the eye cannot say to the hand, “I have no need of you”; or again, the head to the feet, “I have no need of you.”
22 On the contrary, it is much truer that the parts of the body which seem to be weaker are necessary;
23 and those parts of the body which we consider less honorable, on these we bestow greater honor, and our less presentable parts become much more presentable,
24 whereas our more presentable parts have no need of it. But God has so composed the body, giving more abundant honor to that part which lacked,
25 so that there may be no division in the body, but that the parts may have the same care for one another.
26 And if one part of the body suffers, all the parts suffer with it; if a part is honored, all the parts rejoice with it."
Hallelujah!
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