LESSON FROM CENTURY ONE
Rediscovery of New Testament life for the church can never take place as long as men who make up the church are satisfied with the status quo or cling to the conviction that they are capable of solving its problems and renewing it through their own efforts and ingenuity. The church in Century One was new and alive and powerful and miraculous, not because it had more clever members than we do, or better-trained leaders, or less to distract it from its commitment — but because everything it had was given it by God and everything it was was produced by Christ in it and everything it did was done through it by the Holy Spirit. It saw itself as nothing and having nothing apart from Jesus Christ. Robert Girard, Brethren, Hang Loose
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