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Church TentsPosted on December 28, 2009. The Structure of ChurchThere is a revelation that I would like to divide here, and it concerns the structure ae" the form, the receptacle ae" the Body. All knowledges that the Church is the Body Of Christ. The body is an extremely important party, therefore the spirit and the soul; the strength and anointment; glory and the character; the gifts and the fruit; the call and the fate, can work properly.
Have noticed you, that before the Lord places His Spirit, first It always does the form that will contain for Him. Is first forms it and then it contained in him. We can see that everywhere through the Bible. I will give to you just seven quick examples:
Then, we can see of all these, and a lot more of examples, that the body, the structure, the form, is extremely important. In a global aspect, this is really something that the Church should do the attention to. Because if the Body properly is not structured, it will not be able to fill his fate completely. You see, we can have all the truths of revelation are restored and the whole strength and anointing and glory at our disposal, and nevertheless, not the movement in our Divine fate, because the structure of our life, our family, our church or our nation can be paralyzed and thus, not to be able to hold all the precious things coming from the Spirit of the Lord.
By the years of history of Church, the structure of the Church changed with new every revelation truth is restored and with every new office of minsitry and the function is revealed. To the time just before the Protestant reformation started with Martin Luther, there was a total chaos in the structure of Church, and that is why, this period is called: The dark periods of the Church. It reminds of us the condition of the Earth in Origin 1:2 ae" no form, no structure, no form, no body. By the presents ae" no Spirit and no life, but at the same time ae" a potential big one. Then, since the time of Martin Luther, the Lord began transforming again structures it of His Church, parallel with the restoration of truths of revelation and the offices. We can see the progression of a mass informs, to a Church that began assimilating little by little the truths of God of is regenerated, is baptized in water and in the Spirit, living holy life, living by faith, living separated for the projects of God and the goals, using our God gifts given, the talents, and the capacities, expressing the fruit of the Spirit in Love the Lord More ouvertement and heart, praying with more of intensity and the strength, obtaining deeper in the word of God and as much of more.
Then, we see another progression. The Lord began restoring the office of the edvangedlisateur. The structure of the Church changed immediately. The big meetings of stretch and opens meetings mark this time period. The structure was a mass mustering with the intention of winning lost it. Then, when a considerable number of lost people was saved, a structure change was necessary again, to accomodate all these people, therefore they did not fall far. The office of the minister came to help, furnishing Jesus' love and the care for the thousands of recently born people. Then the office of the professor furnished another structures, more favorable for the education of people of God in all present truth. A lot of Schools of Bible came in the existence, A LOT OF schools of Theologic, a lot of witty seminaries, a lot of books were written, a lot of Christian Universities were established, furnishing the education on the campus, by the courses corresponding or even by the online study. Then, with come it from the office of the prophet and the apostle, the Lord has had the change structures it Church again to a more flexible structure that would allow training to the special gatherings to be formed, where the people could be induced individually expressly for the ministry work, moving itself in the gifts, the fruit and the authority of Holy Spirit.
Now, when the five offices of pleat was restored compeltely and wins the momentum as a force of combined ministry (apostles, the prophets, the professors, the ministers and the edvangedlisateurs working together to equip it saints), more and more Church comes in the original structure the Lord had at the spirit for him ae" the Structure of the Body!
More and more of swellings begin realizing than they are a part of some bigger thing, a part of one of business Body World-wide, and that while finding their place in this business Body, they will contribute to his growth in the Lord (epistle to the Ephedsiens 4:11-16). More and more of, the swellings discover, that they are not just to be civil people, coming to Church one or two times a week, listening the man or the woman behind the pulpit, and have no other responsibility that this be. Every believing is king and a priest in God Kingdom and as such, has a fantastic responsibility to do the ministry work, once it/she was equipped for him by the quintuple ministry. More and more Church moves itself towards the structure of cell of ministry, where the Body of business of Christ can be divided in in the smaller body and local, and local every body ae" in the smallest ones "cells", where every person was given the occasion and the privilege to help to the Lord and to the other people. This structure is ideal the one to produce ministers of the Lord of every one of us ae" the ministers in our cells, our ministers in our jobs, our ministers in our schools, our ministers in our churches, our ministers in our neighborhoods, and our ministers in every place where the plant of our feet will walk on.
We already saw in the definition chapter, that our body work by the assistance of every cell, every cell having received the news of the Head about all. Oh that the Church attains this place, where we begin working as A Body of Christ, with a lot of different parties working together everywhere in the world, with every cell working properly, having received its orders of the Head of the Body (Jesus) by His authority chain (The ministry of five pleats)! The lord, please to help does us this transition!
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