He comes” (1 Cor. 11:26). In the New Testament, preaching is always for the purpose of presenting the gospel of God’s kingdom to those who are trapped in the darkness. It was not done from behind a pulpit to an audience of Christians to help inspire them in their own personal sanctification. We simply must move from seeing church as a religious event to seeing it as a spiritual family. Without this context, this soil, leadership will emerge deformed—mutated by corrupt views
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