Banks and Ledbetter are two Christian leadership theorists. I appreciate this passage in one of their books. It emphasises what God is doing in the Church (2004:37). In fact they call the Church a “divine operation”.
“For Paul, what happens at church gatherings originates in the Spirit and flows through the entire membership for the benefit of all. Everyone is caught up in this divine operation (1 Corinthians 12:7). The process itself is described through the use of action verbs that stress its dynamic character: contributions to the meetings are ‘energized’, ‘manifested’, and ‘distributed’ by the Spirit (1 Corinthians 12:6-7, 11). Paul uses a variety of nouns to capture the diversity of what takes place: it is an exercise of ‘gifts’, a variety of ‘services’, different kinds of ‘working’ (1 Corinthians 12:4-6).”OBSERVATION: One of the core problems of Churches is that people miss this perspective, and seek to engineeer the Church, or oppose such engineering, or seek a balanced congregation and balanced spirit through engineering.
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