Extract from Pastor Ulf Ekman
It was an eagerness for this awareness that caused the people to hold fast to the apostles’ teaching. The problem today is that we often begin with the ego. We have a sort of consumption theology that incessantly demands to receive something. Jesus does want to meet your needs, but we do not go to church and become part of the body of Christ so that our needs will be met and we will be satisfied. The Church is not some therapeutic association – it is the Church of the Living God.People gathered, should not be only to see what they could get, or to see if the sermon was good, but earnestly to seek God. Whether God gives me something in a service or not, it is equally important – and appropriate – for me to offer the same sacrifice of praise and award Him the honour and glory He deserves. A church service is about serving God. We come before God and we acknowledge Him, like priests of the new covenant in the new temple, God’s dwelling place in the Spirit, to which we have access through the blood of Jesus.
There is a mentality today that reacts negatively to the idea of someone being over us; we want to be free and do our own thing. This is worldly and selfish. In the body of Christ, this thinking is transformed because we are now all together and we have a King over us. It is extremely important that we do not isolate ourselves from the body.
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