There are many that come to this site that do not have a local body of believers to assemble themselves with that God has raised up for edification in the word, in doctrine, in the love of God and in felowship of the Spirit. For some reason they are critical of the local assembly and pretend they would go and be a participant if they could find one that believed as they do. That is their problem, they are self oriented to the church and the local assembly, so they want no part of it unless they could have some control of what it preaches and teaches and how it functions.
This is like a single person (man or woman) that has no family and criticizes their neighbor that has a family of eight. They criticize the parents and how they treat the kids and what they are teaching the kids because they see problems, weaknesses, failures and falling short in many areas. They even make statements as to what will happen to this family in the future because of what they see going on, but they will never lift a finger through love to be kind and understanding or try to be a good neighbor and make an investment of love with the entire family. They would rather be critical and predict a falling out rather then encourage and edify them through love and with an attitude of being gracious.
What we do not realize it that the measure in which we are critical and judge others will be the measure that we are judged or judge ourselves. Some do not believe in loving your neighbor as you love yourself. They think it is part of the old and not the new testament therefore giving them justification to judge their neighbor whether they are a child of God or not. They are like this because they have never been hid in the body of Christ or baked in the loaf of God's unleavened bread. They live experientially independent of the fulness of God that is in the body (Ep 1:23). They serve a personal Christ but not a corporate Christ, who is found as the head of the body, the fulness of God.
This is like a single person (man or woman) that has no family and criticizes their neighbor that has a family of eight. They criticize the parents and how they treat the kids and what they are teaching the kids because they see problems, weaknesses, failures and falling short in many areas. They even make statements as to what will happen to this family in the future because of what they see going on, but they will never lift a finger through love to be kind and understanding or try to be a good neighbor and make an investment of love with the entire family. They would rather be critical and predict a falling out rather then encourage and edify them through love and with an attitude of being gracious.
What we do not realize it that the measure in which we are critical and judge others will be the measure that we are judged or judge ourselves. Some do not believe in loving your neighbor as you love yourself. They think it is part of the old and not the new testament therefore giving them justification to judge their neighbor whether they are a child of God or not. They are like this because they have never been hid in the body of Christ or baked in the loaf of God's unleavened bread. They live experientially independent of the fulness of God that is in the body (Ep 1:23). They serve a personal Christ but not a corporate Christ, who is found as the head of the body, the fulness of God.
