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Where The Church Missed It? By Joseph Akinrinola Where the church did miss it?
How was the church then? (Acts 2:42-47)
Without mincing words, the church remains an institution to reckon with in most parts of the world. The church wedges a great power in the political and economic landscape of most nations.
You will be treating the symptoms without addressing the sickness if you fail to carry out a diagnosis first. Therefore, we should look at the church in her glorious days. It is then we can know where the Church missed it.
You can see this visibly in the currency of America. The inscription on the dollar note reads, “In God we trust.” The same goes for the House of Commons of the British Parliament where the Bible is one of the objects of the legislative proceedings. Also, going through the Bible, especially the New Testament, the church will be the only institution when God will be done with the world at the rapture. But does the current situation show the church is anywhere near God’s agenda for her? This is the crux of my discussion today. Without much ado, let me answer the question of where did the church miss it. Understanding what church is: An average Christian understands the church is not the building, but the individuals that gather to worship God as saved souls. It is with this understanding I will address anyone who claims to be a Christian. This will include me. So interpreting the Greek word ecclesia (ekklesia), meaning the called out, it means those who are saved from the world, whose lives are patterned after Christ, and different from the standard of the world.
1. They had all things in common (unity). Unlike today where believers are divided along denomination, tribal, language, ethnic, and doctrinal lines, the early Church concentrated on what unites them rather than those things that divide them. 2. The Bible was their standard and Jesus their message. 3. To them, persecution and challenges are part of following Christ. 4. They lived daily with the awareness of the rapture. The disciples lived daily with the consciousness of either death or the rapture. That is why they would not compromise their faith. 5. They concentrated their energy on building people and not structures. They believed that if you build the people, the people will build the structure.
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