· "But what Paul seems to indicate to the Church at
Corinth and to all of us who are both part of the Universal Church as well as
the local church is this:
We don’t belong to any one
spiritual leader, any one spiritual servant. We belong to God. It is God in
whom we live, move, and have our being. Not any ol’ human whom we believe (or
don’t believe) has been sent by God to our churches. And if we start fussing
about that mess and/or other trivial matters, have we not missed the point
entirely? Isn’t that distracting us from the bigger picture that God has in
mind for us as God’s church? And if it IS distracting us…what’s happening in
the world while we’re not paying attention? What’s happening that God wants us
to see, to hear, to engage, to resist, to serve, to bless, to write, to sing,
to worship…right alongside God…that we’re oblivious to because we let our own
focus drive out God’s focus for us as God’s church?"
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