http://www.thegatewaychurch.info/awash-with-the-presence-of-god in and around Kings Lynn, West Norfolk Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:48:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.thegatewaychurch.info/awash-with-the-presence-of-god/comment-page-1#comment-2 David Hutton Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:48:27 +0000 http://www.thegatewaychurch.info/?p=150#comment-2 “What then shall we say, brothers? When you come together, everyone has a hymn, or a word of instruction, a revelation, a tongue or an interpretation. All of these must be done for the strengthening of the church.( NIV v26)” My 25+yrs as a believer has not seen a great deal of this scripture been practiced especially at a Main Sunday gathering..... yet the scripture above is clear. It is strange that when a church seeks to embrace this biblical approach questions quickly come forward. We can spends years singing the five songs selected before the meeting commenced and listening to the sermon prepared beforehand and no one bats an eyelid. Despite a so called restoration of the apostolic ministry the main structure of Sunday gatherings across the UK invariably does not follow the 1Cor14:26 model. A mindset needs to be pulled down ..... so I call all who want to see Jesus given the pre eminence at our gatherings ..... embrace 1 Cor 14:26 ... as Jesus will only get the pre eminence if we do it his way .... the 5 songs followed by a message has never been his way “What then shall we say, brothers? When you come together, everyone has a hymn, or a word of instruction, a revelation, a tongue or an interpretation. All of these must be done for the strengthening of the church.( NIV v26)”
My 25+yrs as a believer has not seen a great deal of this scripture been practiced especially at a Main Sunday gathering….. yet the scripture above is clear. It is strange that when a church seeks to embrace this biblical approach questions quickly come forward. We can spends years singing the five songs selected before the meeting commenced and listening to the sermon prepared beforehand and no one bats an eyelid.
Despite a so called restoration of the apostolic ministry the main structure of Sunday gatherings across the UK invariably does not follow the 1Cor14:26 model.
A mindset needs to be pulled down ….. so I call all who want to see Jesus given the pre eminence at our gatherings ….. embrace 1 Cor 14:26 … as Jesus will only get the pre eminence if we do it his way …. the 5 songs followed by a message has never been his way

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