Churches should add to their commitments: a commitment for members to live nearer to one another in order to cooperate in evangelism, worship of their Savior, raising their children, discipling new converts, and sojourning through this world. Churches should establish elders in their churches and seek to send out elders in order to plant new communal churches as soon as possible. In so doing, all churches should strive to enable every converted, able man to become an elder (it is inconceivable that churches teach that a Christian man can grow in the faith and not be able to provide godly counsel in a church after twenty years as a Christian – this is possible only in rare cases. In every other case these twenty-year “Christians” are not Christians at all*).
*However, I give this example: a Christian who is locked up for twenty years after conversion would not be ready upon release to give counsel in a church. I believe that due to the poor leadership among churches this is exactly the case in churches today. Therefore, I believe that all these Christians are indwelled by the Spirit, and the Spirit is orchestrating things in His timing to bring Christians to their full life in Him.
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