Another useful reality check for us is, the New Testament church we read about so often couldn't function apart from the Holy Spirit. They literally depended on God to survive. Can you imagine?

They knew who to recognize as what among them, whether elders, teachers, pastors, prophets, evangelists, apostles or whatever else, because the Spirit explicitly told them these things. These first believers were free to come and go however the Spirit commanded them.

If we still follow the same Savior, then we ought to imitate the earliest church's genuine Spirit-led-ness. They listened to Christ and obeyed Him. He led them and they followed.

Genuine faith is difficult. Reality-based faith is courageously venturing into unknown territory with only one Leader and one Source of confidence: Jesus Christ.

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