True Spirituality

Just as people smash marriages because they are looking for what is romantically and sexually perfect and in this poor world do not find it, so human beings often smash what could have been possible in a true church or true Christian group. It is not just the “they” involved who are not yet perfect, but the “I” is not yet perfect either. In the absence of present perfection, Christians are to help each other on to increasingly substantial healing on the basis of the finished work of Christ.

The pastor does not need to hang everything on the people, and the people do not need to hang everything on the pastor.

The Holy Spirit is the one by whom the body of Christ is joined together and if the body does not care about being fitly joined together, it is he who is grieved.

The church needs to function consciously on the basis of the finished work of Christ and not on the proud basis of any inherent value in itself or any supposed or assumed inherent superiority.

True Christian giving is in love and communication across the whole framework of the interplay between whole men.

This sharing is not law, but true love and true communication of the whole man to whole man, across the whole spectrum of what humanity is.

the whole culture and way of life is involved in this vital diversity of love and communication.

there is no reality on the local level, we deny what we say we believe, right up to the apex, because what we really deny is that God is a personal God

There is a danger to our set ways, but within the structure of Scripture and under the leadership of the Holy Spirit there is a possibility of glory, too.

the interplay of true human beings in a group small enough for it to be practically possible.