Anatomy of the Church
Key points about the skeleton or framework of the church You can hardly make it from Sunday to Sunday without falling out, in terms of your own spiritual walk, and so the Lord’s raised up resources - in the local Church. We ought to be buried in the things it offers. There has to be framework for the body, the skeleton. There has to be internal systems, which I call the flowing through of certain attitudes. And then there has to be muscle, which is the kinds of function that we do, and then it fleshes out in the form of our ministry. But the form is not enough. You can’t just reproduce the form without the rest. It won’t live. It won’t stand up. It won’t work. trying to get your arms around the thing, keep people from getting complacent, indifferent, taking everything for granted, and not understanding what For the body to function and the body to work, it has to have skeleton. It has to have structure, has to have form. It’s the skeleton that gives the basic structure form to the...