No matter how talented, gifted, skilled, intelligent and dedicated a Christian is, without a vision, he is spiritually impotent and ineffective. "Where there is no vision, the people perish." How many churches are powerless because they lack God's vision, provided by the Holy Spirit! We are the basic building blocks in God's Church. What kind of church would my church be if all of the members were just like me?
LACK OF VISION
Proverbs 29:18
18 Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
COUNTERFEIT GODLINESS
2 Timothy 3:5
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
POWER FROM GOD
Acts 1:8
8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
STONES IN GOD'S SPIRITUAL HOUSE
1 Peter 2:5
5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
COMMENT
This agrees with my post concerning SUCCESS AND FAILURE ARE BOTH INDIVIDUAL AND CORPORATE. The integrity of the greater structure (local body of believers) is dependent on the strength and effectiveness of the individual stones that make up the larger building.
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