I attend multiple fellowships. Do you dismiss the prophets???? Do you think we should remain silent while wolves infiltrate the Church?
Of course you do.
What
we need is to be under a seasoned pastor-teacher that has been raised up of God to teach the word and doctrine.
The believer needs to be in an environment where he has to huble himself to the word and doctrine that is being preached.
We also need to be strong in the grace of God and learn how to edify and buid up other believers in the body of Christ.
We need a local assembly of believers that we continually rub elbows and shoulders with so that we can put into practice through faith the many precious instructions we have been given through the scriptures that are specifically for the church and body of Christ.
We need to have a constant fellowship with others, especially those that are over us in the Lord, who God has given a measure of grace to build us up into Christ.
We need to be around the members of God's bodt so that we can comprehend the love of God with the saints in the work of the ministry.
We need to obey God in this so that we don't become an independant believer that esteems ourself above others because of some gift we say we have from God and use that gift to usurp authority over what has been established by God in the church through grace and truth.
We need the grace of God that comes from every member of the body through the supply that has been given to them by the Spirit.
What we don't need are a bunch of novices that think they know everything, claiming to have a gift for the church and coming into local assemblies condemning and accusing believers of sin and trying to rid the church of the wolves in sheep's clothing. If anyone like that came into my church with this air of supremacy and tried to do this to any of the believers in our fellowship, you would be removed immediately and be given a strong warning to never come back and try that again. That's called a 'spiritual boot'.
4runner,
You would never think of doing anything like that, now would you?