The author of “He Speaks To Me,” as she explains how we can learn about the character of God from other believers.
and I was really really impacted by one
of the sentences that was so simple in
the in the book even you said it’s like
we have cut off part of Christ by
amputating a piece of the body and
saying we’re not gonna have anything to
do with them
like we cut off part of Christ I really
believe we have cut ourselves off from
him by cutting ourselves off from them
right do you think that’s part of
staying out of the Promised Land life
when you’re absolutely absolutely
because I think that as amazing as any
one church body is every Church has its
weakness
every Church has its strengths and when
we let the totality of our experience
with God in that one Church determined
the the totality of God himself then
we’re missing out on on some of himself
that he wants us to experience so we
tend to put God in a box in that box
within that box is our own experience of
God what we’ve been taught through our
church our denomination and all of that
is good stuff and there’s no problem
with having the box the problem is when
you dare to put a lid on the box and
assume that anything that God wants to
do that is outside of your box is not
God then that means you have put
yourself in a position to be unaware of
God’s activity and the fullness of all
that God would want to give to you and
so yeah we’ve got to stand on the truth
of God’s Word and I want to be clear
about that I’m not saying that we allow
our foundations to be shaken ever we
stand on the truth of God’s Word yet at
the same time we’ve got to have open
hearts and open minds and open eyes to
see what it is that the Spirit of God
might want to teach us about himself
that is different than what we are used
to in our own local bodies