gathering is to express His glorious Son and make Him visible. (The church is the body, and Christ is the Head. The purpose of one’s body is to express the life that’s within it.) Put another way, we gather together so that the Lord Jesus can manifest Himself in His fullness. And when that happens, the body is edified. Note that the only way that Christ can be properly expressed is if every member of a church freely supplies that aspect of the Lord that he or she has received. Make no mistake about
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