from another conversation about getting away from doctrinally-driven faith:
The question is harder than it might sound: afterall, how many people seriously consider the difference between "the body of Christ" and what it is that we do on Sundays? What is the difference between God's call for humanity to join his body and the call of today's Chrisitianity to join its churches?
That's what this quest to find a place of no doctrine is about. It's about taking time to breathe, to turn inward for a while, breathe in God, retreat from the clanging gongs of church obligations and listen,
listen
and then find ways to respond to that still quiet voice of God.
This quest is not about the cliched "stand for nothing fall for anything" silliness so often preached as justification for the hide-bound rigidity we so often subsitute for God's love.
It's a big scary thing, to sincerely seek the simplicity that Jesus claims as his message.
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The concept of the Body of Christ is totally ignored by churches.
The fact that we are one Body of Christ means that we must meet as one Church, not as Baptists, Presbyterians or Pentecostals.
It means that the denominations are not really churches at all.
It means that it is ridiculose for somebody to claim to be an elder of a church. If he is not an elder in the church in the whole locality, but only his denomination, he is not an elder at all.
That we are members of the Body of Christ means that it is absolutely worthless becoming a member of such and such a church. You are either a member of the Body of Christ or no church at all.
Being the Body of Christ means that we are all free to participate in worship and ministry as the Holy Spirit leads us, not according to some set order.
Every Blessing in Christ
Matthew
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