A continual emphasis I have had in ministry is that we need to see all of Church life from the point of view of what God is doing, not what man is doing. To put it another way, within the Church, one needs to judge things according to grace (God's grace), not law (God's law). One needs to ask: "What is God doing here in His grace -- in spite of people's sin?" Not: "What are people doing here in terms of the law -- in spite God's holiness?" This is where the struggle between law and grace makes contact with the way in which a Church sees itself and functions. OBSERVATION: Those who trouble the ministry of a Church frequently judge it by the law, rather than seeing it as a means of grace -- and this may reflect their own blindness to grace.
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