Apologetical articles

In the last post, I  spoke of a usurpation that took place in the post-apostolic period of the early church; and this action was to put in place a partly Old Testament; partly worldly system in place: Clergy/Laity" division.  These terms are both biblical terms but they do not and cannot speak to what we are informed by Christendom-- they speak to one group. that is, God people (Laos) as God's inheritance (Kleros). And this is the great tragedy. Now what does this all mean? how does it effect the biblical portrayal of the universal all-body ministry as seen in the many 'one another' passages? Below I have selected one of the great passages on this truth. Let us consider its words: "Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,   bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must ...

  What is the primary thing that is consistently destroying the life of the ecclesia?   It is the institutional usurpation of the way things were meant to be carried out in the body of Christ. Let me make this point clear-- for much of the last 1800 years (but more so, from 325ad onwards) everything that we assume to be the correct manner is not only error; it is a danger to the health of the church.  In other words, the hierarchical system has no scriptural bearing.  The church as it was brought into existence through Christ and His Spirit by means of His apostles was an organic reality and not an institutional system. Take note of the following passages and tell me that what we have today in Evangelicalism (Today: institutional Christendom)  is what Christ put in place.  Paul teaches us that the function of the church is an internal all body dynamic-- and that all believers are to be participants and not spectators of some grand show: "And...