GOD TELLS US TO COME TOGETHER AND BUILD UP CHRIST IN EACH OTHER
God tells us to come together and build up Christ in each other. He uses the word “edify,” which is to build up. (1 Corinthians 14:26) God is also joining us as parts of Christ the body into one unified and functioning body at the same time. (1 Corinthians 1:10) God has called you as a particular member of the body of Christ. You are led by the Spirit and you yield to the Spirit. When the body gathers, the body is building and assembling itself in love. (Ephesians 4:15-16) You are working at the construction site. You and all the other stones have come together into one place. God uses the church service to assemble the stones. That’s why each one gives a psalm or a teaching, a revelation, a tongue, or an interpretation. (1 Corinthians 14:26) Notice that it doesn’t say one has all the songs, teachings, revelations, or any other element. It’s a body ministry. A person may oversee the encouragement of all to minister, but the Holy Spirit leads it, and all minister. We assemble ourselves. We’re not just getting together. We don’t just watch professional ministries. There isn’t a division where some are spectators and others are the ones who minister. No one knows who will have a word, a song, a miracle, or a healing. You aren’t trying to create a polished show. This assembly might not appeal to anyone who wants entertainment, but the Holy Spirit moves. No one has to stir up the crowd with various techniques. We fit ourselves together into Christ the body according to the authority and power of the Holy Spirit. If the Spirit doesn’t move, we seek God in respectful worship until He visits us and directs us. “Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.” (Hebrews 10:25) This is the in-Christ experience. “But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption” (1 Corinthians 1:30) (Your Metamorphosis – Scientia)