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The practical local church must be therefore a place where the co-workers are planting and growing Christ within men and women.
The normal church life must be a FARM of the cultivation and growing of the life of this Person Christ within her constituents.
Right here in First Corinthians -
If we want Christ to hasten His return, we have to GROW.
We have to let Him grow in us.
And we have to plant and water this divine life seed in others that He grow in them also.
Do we play enough attention to this? Or are most of the Christians wanting Jesus to return pre-occupied with outward signs concerning temples and things of that nature?
What about the living temple of the new covenant community? What about Christ growing that a Harvest may soon be reaped by Him?
The normal church life must be a FARM of the cultivation and growing of the life of this Person Christ within her constituents.
Right here in First Corinthians -
"I planted, Apollos watered, but God caused the growth.
So then neither is he who plants anything nor he who waters, but God who causes the growth.
Now he who plants and he who waters are one, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor,
For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's cultivated land [or farm] God's building." (First Cor. 3:6-9)
If we want Christ to hasten His return, we have to GROW.
We have to let Him grow in us.
And we have to plant and water this divine life seed in others that He grow in them also.
Do we play enough attention to this? Or are most of the Christians wanting Jesus to return pre-occupied with outward signs concerning temples and things of that nature?
What about the living temple of the new covenant community? What about Christ growing that a Harvest may soon be reaped by Him?