VI: THE IMPORTANCE OF THE FIRST LETTER TO THE CORINTHIANS:
Every problem in the modern-day church is addressed in 1 Corinthians.
The second point (and I'm giving you my opinion), but we are living in what I call the Corinthian church age where the majority of the body of Christ functions like the church the church in Corinth.
We, just as the Corinthians, we do not know the difference between the ministry of God's Spirit and emotional energy! Some people think that if you can "feel" the emotion of the meeting, that's the power of the Holy Spirit. No, it's not! But that's what the Corinthians thought. They called it the moving of the Spirit. They didn't call it emotion because they didn't know the difference between the flesh and the Spirit.
If there's ever been an era in Christianity where Christians have not understood the difference between the flesh and the Spirit, it's our generation, the age in which we live. The normal philosophy is that the church considers the whole person as a Christian, human and spirit. And you have to try and get your flesh involved, and the human involved, and the emotions involved, and all you have to do is dedicate your human efforts to God and you're doing right. No, you're not. Not according to God's word!
VI: THE IMPORTANCE OF THE FIRST LETTER TO THE CORINTHIANS:
Every problem in the modern-day church is addressed in 1 Corinthians.
The second point (and I'm giving you my opinion), but we are living in what I call the Corinthian church age where the majority of the body of Christ functions like the church the church in Corinth.
We, just as the Corinthians, we do not know the difference between the ministry of God's Spirit and emotional energy! Some people think that if you can "feel" the emotion of the meeting, that's the power of the Holy Spirit. No, it's not! But that's what the Corinthians thought. They called it the moving of the Spirit. They didn't call it emotion because they didn't know the difference between the flesh and the Spirit.
If there's ever been an era in Christianity where Christians have not understood the difference between the flesh and the Spirit, it's our generation, the age in which we live. The normal philosophy is that the church considers the whole person as a Christian, human and spirit. And you have to try and get your flesh involved, and the human involved, and the emotions involved, and all you have to do is dedicate your human efforts to God and you're doing right. No, you're not. Not according to God's word!
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