"You have been believers so long now that you ought to be teaching others. Instead, you need someone to teach you again the basic things about God's word. You are like babies who need milk and cannot eat solid food," (Hebrews 5:12)
The Church system is keeping people babies. The reason for this is that no one man was suppose to be responsible for a Church body nor was there suppose to be one man or woman teaching, but rather Christ is teacher, Rabbi, "Don’t let anyone call you ‘Rabbi,’ for you have only one teacher, and all of you are equal as brothers and sisters. And don’t address anyone here on earth as ‘Father,’ for only God in heaven is your Father. And don’t let anyone call you ‘Teacher,’ for you have only one teacher, the Christ. The greatest among you must be a servant. But those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted." (Matthew 23:7-12), and Holy Spirit will teach us, "But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you." (John 14:26). It wasn't ever suppose to be one man teaching the whole church body on Sundays. In fact, it is suppose to be Christ teaching us via lectio divina and revelation, and we go and share that teaching of Christ just as pastor does.
The Church is suppose to be fully active, not one person being responsible to teach, "What then, brothers? When you come together, each one has a hymn, a lesson, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. Let all things be done for building up. If any speak in a tongue, let there be only two or at most three, and each in turn, and let someone interpret. But if there is no one to interpret, let each of them keep silent in church and speak to himself and to God. 29 Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others weigh what is said. 30 If a revelation is made to another sitting there, let the first be silent. For you can all prophesy one by one, so that all may learn and all be encouraged, and the spirits of prophets are subject to prophets. For God is not a God of confusion but of peace." (1 Corinthians 14:26-32), and "You have been believers so long now that you ought to be teaching others. Instead, you need someone to teach you again the basic things about God's word. You are like babies who need milk and cannot eat solid food," (Hebrews 5:12). The Constantine Church System (founded in 312-333, see Eusebius History of Church Last Chapter, Penguin Publishers) today keeps people babies, when everyone in the church body should be making disciples and teaching! (Matthew 28:19).
Disciples aren't people perpetually stuck in pews or chairs. It is suppose to be people who are taught and equipped to be teachers themselves (2 Timothy 3:16) and who fellowship and learn from a disciple to become disciples (Jesus had 12 disciples, 70 disciples of the 12, and 300-400 disciples of the 70 disciples) who are taught but actually graduate to become teachers and make disciples too.
The Apostle Paul sure did not waste time in waiting for some kind of ordination, "This letter is from Paul, an apostle. I was not appointed by any group of people or any human authority, but by Jesus Christ himself and by God the Father, who raised Jesus from the dead," (Galatians 1:1), "I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ," (Galatians 1:12). The most dynamic apostle to the Gentiles was not ordained by men, but by the God Man Jesus Christ. When Paul went up to see Peter and James, He only got the hand of fellowship, not some kind of ordination or anointing of men. (see Galatians 2:9).
Every Christian is suppose to be teacher and making disciples. But thanks to Constantine and the inertia in the Institutional Church (Mainstream Churches) teaching has been regulated to one individual on Sundays, and Wednesday Nights. The result is an impotent and apathetic Church Body that has not been equipped to teach and make disciples. By now every person in a pew or chair ought to have disciples and be teaching in some manner. Instead, there are many who have become passive observers, letting all the weight of teaching fall on one person; the pastor. The Pastor has to play grown up, while everyone else like infants and babes (spiritually) sit there sucking their Bible binky the Pastor puts on the big screen, and refusing to take responsibility to go out and make disciples. The problem is two fold, the pastor is responsible because he is playing super apostle and mustering all the weight of teaching himself; he does this because of Constantine, seminary (programming), and pride. The second guilty party is the members or those in audience (hate that word) who don't read their Bibles and discover that they are to be active disciples making disciples, and teaching in their own sphere the LORD has given them; just as Paul's sphere was the Gentiles, and Peter's was the Jews and Gentiles.
The Church is fastly fading into a black hole because disciples are sitting in the dark, while one man or women tries to be the spark. As a result the disciples turn into codependent babes in need of being retaught the elementary truths, "Therefore let us move beyond the elementary teachings about Christ and be taken forward to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from acts that lead to death, and of faith in God,.So let us stop going over the basic teachings about Christ again and again. Let us go on instead and become mature in our understanding. Surely we don't need to start again with the fundamental importance of repenting from evil deeds and placing our faith in God. instruction about cleansing rites, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment." (Hebrews 6:1-2). The writer of Hebrews is not saying to cease remembering and believing these things but rather as disciples we ought to moving deeper and not having to be reeducated as if the salvic and basic truths of Christ fell out of our brains and we need refresher courses; and yet this is what happens with an impotent church that keeps just sitting idly by and letting the pastor be St. Augustine, Martin Luther, John Calvin, and St. Jerome on Sundays.
Disciples aren't people perpetually stuck in pews or chairs. It is suppose to be people who are taught and equipped to be teachers themselves (2 Timothy 3:16) and who fellowship and learn from a disciple to become disciples (Jesus had 12 disciples, 70 disciples of the 12, and 300-400 disciples of the 70 disciples) who are taught but actually graduate to become teachers and make disciples too.
The Apostle Paul sure did not waste time in waiting for some kind of ordination, "This letter is from Paul, an apostle. I was not appointed by any group of people or any human authority, but by Jesus Christ himself and by God the Father, who raised Jesus from the dead," (Galatians 1:1), "I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ," (Galatians 1:12). The most dynamic apostle to the Gentiles was not ordained by men, but by the God Man Jesus Christ. When Paul went up to see Peter and James, He only got the hand of fellowship, not some kind of ordination or anointing of men. (see Galatians 2:9).
Every Christian is suppose to be teacher and making disciples. But thanks to Constantine and the inertia in the Institutional Church (Mainstream Churches) teaching has been regulated to one individual on Sundays, and Wednesday Nights. The result is an impotent and apathetic Church Body that has not been equipped to teach and make disciples. By now every person in a pew or chair ought to have disciples and be teaching in some manner. Instead, there are many who have become passive observers, letting all the weight of teaching fall on one person; the pastor. The Pastor has to play grown up, while everyone else like infants and babes (spiritually) sit there sucking their Bible binky the Pastor puts on the big screen, and refusing to take responsibility to go out and make disciples. The problem is two fold, the pastor is responsible because he is playing super apostle and mustering all the weight of teaching himself; he does this because of Constantine, seminary (programming), and pride. The second guilty party is the members or those in audience (hate that word) who don't read their Bibles and discover that they are to be active disciples making disciples, and teaching in their own sphere the LORD has given them; just as Paul's sphere was the Gentiles, and Peter's was the Jews and Gentiles.
The Church is fastly fading into a black hole because disciples are sitting in the dark, while one man or women tries to be the spark. As a result the disciples turn into codependent babes in need of being retaught the elementary truths, "Therefore let us move beyond the elementary teachings about Christ and be taken forward to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from acts that lead to death, and of faith in God,.So let us stop going over the basic teachings about Christ again and again. Let us go on instead and become mature in our understanding. Surely we don't need to start again with the fundamental importance of repenting from evil deeds and placing our faith in God. instruction about cleansing rites, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment." (Hebrews 6:1-2). The writer of Hebrews is not saying to cease remembering and believing these things but rather as disciples we ought to moving deeper and not having to be reeducated as if the salvic and basic truths of Christ fell out of our brains and we need refresher courses; and yet this is what happens with an impotent church that keeps just sitting idly by and letting the pastor be St. Augustine, Martin Luther, John Calvin, and St. Jerome on Sundays.
We need a Reformation. On eve of 500th Anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, I argue we need a reformation. It is time for disciples to be made again, who can carrying their own weight of teaching and testimony (Revelation 12:11). It is time to cut the final cancerous pieces of Constantine's Church from the True Elect Remnant Body of Christ, and replace it with disciples instead of displayed projectors, a living body of believers rather than a building, and priests made by God (1 Peter 2:9-10) in place of scholastic priests who are paid. It is time to stop making babies, and to build up the Church body, and equip it to do fruitful wonders for Kingdom of God. Amen.
Some final words on needing to move past infancy to maturity in Christ:
"Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly—as infants in Christ, I had to feed you with milk, not with solid food, because you weren't ready for anything stronger. And you still aren't ready." (1 Corinthians 3:1-2).
"Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness." (Hebrews 5:13)
"Brothers, stop thinking like children. In regard to evil be infants, but in your thinking be mature." (1 Corinthians 14:12)
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