1.) We need to stop elevating personal "quiet times" (which means isolating yourself from community to read your bible) and individual prayer over against more communal Christian activities.
2.) We need to have a higher esslesiology. Church is not merely an institution created by God to help individuals who have a "personal relationship with Jesus" (is that phrase even in the NT???) to get through life sinning less while waiting to be taken up to heaven. The church is what Jesus continues to do on the earth (Acts 1.1-2). The church community is God's plan for bring His reign until Jesus returns.
--Matt Larsen
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