Again and again I've heard Bruce Winter say,
So, even my theology was perfect in theory, what's my actual manner of thinking about my church?
I don't always think of my head pastor as Jesus. I don't always preciously value each person as God's possession, for whom Jesus died and in whom Holy Spirit lives. I don't always recognise that my decisions and service aren't the final word, but what the sovereign Lord chooses to do through it is.
Are you like me sometimes?
“Don't you dare talk about your church.' It is not your church. It's not the elders' church. It is Jesus' church.”He wants to make sure that young ministers (literal translation = servants!) don't start to slowly over time get the wrong idea about what church is. Church is the body of Christ, of which He is the head. (Ephesians 4:15-16) She is his bride, whom he bought for the princely sum of his blood. (Ephesians 1:7, 5:25-32) Even our individual bodies are not our own, but are rooms for Holy Spirit to live in and are owned by God. (1 Corinthians 6:19-20)
So, even my theology was perfect in theory, what's my actual manner of thinking about my church?
I don't always think of my head pastor as Jesus. I don't always preciously value each person as God's possession, for whom Jesus died and in whom Holy Spirit lives. I don't always recognise that my decisions and service aren't the final word, but what the sovereign Lord chooses to do through it is.
Are you like me sometimes?