Not really. No one on this forum is making community the primary objective, Linda. What we are saying is this: there is the written record, a document to be treated with a great deal of reverence for a number of reasons and there are the various venues God has installed or appointed to bring us to the knowledge of His message. All of it -- those venues -- are a part of community. The word ("community") is not the important issue, however.Rather, the realization that the "verdict" cannot be fully understood apart from from two concerns: 1) our association with others (the Spirit, the church, teachers, preachers, etc., and the things they not only say to us but have written) and 2) the increasing aspect of maturity that is ours through and because of the workings of God in our lives (because of maturity, I see today what I simply could not see yesterday).
This is basic Spiritual Reality 101. And it is as biblical as it gets.
Pastor Smithson
So whereâs the Bible??? Izzy
So, we are agreeing on the above? Your last question went passed me.
John
