What is a chuch? A church among others is a "hospital" that "cures" people's spirits. After our fall in Paradise, men's spirit has become "ill". God made people according to His likeness. But after our fall, that procedure stopped. Sin entered the human nature and a spiritual "illness" has been dominating our nature since then. We have become "ill", we have become sinful.
Through Jesus' sacrifice we are justified and aquire our so wanted salvation. But Jesus' task was not only to save us, but to "cure" our spirit, too. To make us spiritually "healthy" again, as we had been in Paradise in the beginning. To get us back to that "God's likeness".
How is this done? God gave us His commandements. His commandements' aim is to make us walk on Jesus' footprints. To do what He would had done in any case in this life. So to aquire His character. To become "healthy" again. To go back to the point that we rebelled against God. And to change our path and follow His footprints this time, not devil's.
So a church has mainly the aim to cure people's souls and spirits. By teaching the Word of God. With the power of the Holy Spirit. Because on our own we will not go far away. Who can claim that can love their enemy if the Spirit of God does not give them His grace?
The church is a place where we are called to "cure" our spirit, not our neighbors' spirit, not our brother's spirit, but our own spirit by the help of God. It is not us that have brought our brothers and sisters in the church. It is God who had done that. And it is God He who tries to change us according to His likeness and get us all the way to the end, to the gates of Heaven.
So who has given us the permission to judge our brethren? Is it our task to correct them and get them to the end? Or is this God's task? What makes us feel superior when we see a brother falling in a sin or do something wrong? Do we consider ourselves superior and thus we feel right to sit on a Judge's seat and judge?
What is a chuch? A church among others is a "hospital" that "cures" people's spirits. After our fall in Paradise, men's spirit has become "ill". God made people according to His likeness. But after our fall, that procedure stopped. Sin entered the human nature and a spiritual "illness" has been dominating our nature since then. We have become "ill", we have become sinful.
Through Jesus' sacrifice we are justified and aquire our so wanted salvation. But Jesus' task was not only to save us, but to "cure" our spirit, too. To make us spiritually "healthy" again, as we had been in Paradise in the beginning. To get us back to that "God's likeness".
How is this done? God gave us His commandements. His commandements' aim is to make us walk on Jesus' footprints. To do what He would had done in any case in this life. So to aquire His character. To become "healthy" again. To go back to the point that we rebelled against God. And to change our path and follow His footprints this time, not devil's.
So a church has mainly the aim to cure people's souls and spirits. By teaching the Word of God. With the power of the Holy Spirit. Because on our own we will not go far away. Who can claim that can love their enemy if the Spirit of God does not give them His grace?
The church is a place where we are called to "cure" our spirit, not our neighbors' spirit, not our brother's spirit, but our own spirit by the help of God. It is not us that have brought our brothers and sisters in the church. It is God who had done that. And it is God He who tries to change us according to His likeness and get us all the way to the end, to the gates of Heaven.
So who has given us the permission to judge our brethren? Is it our task to correct them and get them to the end? Or is this God's task? What makes us feel superior when we see a brother falling in a sin or do something wrong? Do we consider ourselves superior and thus we feel right to sit on a Judge's seat and judge?
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