Let all things be done.
How?
Decently and in order.
I am not sure when it happened or why it happened but I am for sure that it did happen. What happened? The second part of I Corinthians 14:40 happened.
Someone, somewhere, in real time, got a little too passionate about decency and orderliness and forgot to let all things be done.
The context in which decency and orderliness is to be exercised in, is one of liberty. Genuine liberty has order and genuine order must have a sense of liberty. To exercise order without liberty leads to manipulation and control. In turn, to exercise liberty without order leads to chaos.
Let all things be done. What things? All the gift things. This was the context—still is today.
Some church bodies don’t see all the gifts. Perhaps, too much order and not enough liberty? Most likely.
Some church bodies abuse all the gifts. Most likely, too much liberty and not enough order.
Balance is important. But what is balance? I have some thoughts but plan on saving them for another post.
How?
Decently and in order.
I am not sure when it happened or why it happened but I am for sure that it did happen. What happened? The second part of I Corinthians 14:40 happened.
Someone, somewhere, in real time, got a little too passionate about decency and orderliness and forgot to let all things be done.
The context in which decency and orderliness is to be exercised in, is one of liberty. Genuine liberty has order and genuine order must have a sense of liberty. To exercise order without liberty leads to manipulation and control. In turn, to exercise liberty without order leads to chaos.
Let all things be done. What things? All the gift things. This was the context—still is today.
Some church bodies don’t see all the gifts. Perhaps, too much order and not enough liberty? Most likely.
Some church bodies abuse all the gifts. Most likely, too much liberty and not enough order.
Balance is important. But what is balance? I have some thoughts but plan on saving them for another post.
4 comments:
Good thoughts, Will! I especially like the part about balance.
I think balance is the key to a lot of things in the church. Balance between liberty and order. Balance between worship and word. Balance between gifts and fruit. Balance.
People often quote from 1 Corinthians 13, the great chapter on love. What most people fail to realize is that this particular passage has nothing to do with love, and everything to do with exercising the gifts of the Spirit.
Let all things be done. AMEN!
Let all things be done decently and in order. AMEN!
Let all things be done in LOVE. Amen?
I can't wait to read what you have to say next!
Thanks so much for commenting my friend.
Where there is no love there can be no balance. To speak of balance without love is simply to not know of what we speak.
blessings
This is a great point William. I've never thought that it indeed says "Let ALL things be done..." perhaps we look over this to get to the order part.
Thank the Lord for you and your wife!
hey buddy--will you take my last name off your list of blogs? thanks!
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