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To: betty boop; Alamo-Girl; hosepipe; .30Carbine
There is an "objective" church, which has a history (i.e., it has a "past.") There is also a (forward-looking) "subjective," or inner church, which is inspired and drawn by the Holy Spirit in "real time," the cultivation of which is of particular interest to my dear sister and me.

I understand. "Glorify and bear God in your body".

There is a danger in cultivating your own temple though.

19 Now therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners; but you are fellow citizens with the saints, and the domestics of God, 20 Built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone: 21 In whom all the building, being framed together, groweth up into an holy temple in the Lord. 22 In whom you also are built together into an habitation of God in the Spirit.

(Eph 2)


5,238 posted on 01/11/2007 5:07:29 PM PST by annalex
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To: annalex; betty boop
There is a danger in cultivating your own temple though.

The leading I have in the Spirit is that we are temples for the Spirit's indwelling (John 3, etc.)

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which [temple] ye are. - I Cor 3:16-17


5,317 posted on 01/11/2007 9:41:05 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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