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Church Body Exercise Day 110
What is the Household Body doing now? Is she slumbering, jogging or being caressed? Is she straining to listen or singing a song? "Worship is the body in song! Conference is the body listening! Evangelism is the body stretching!."
Fallible Human Beings
The Household Body is made up of human beings and is therefore fallible. No Christian body is ever perfect! In very early times, Celsus reproached the church as "a congregation of frogs croaking in a swamp." The English poet Swinburne is reported to have called her, "the leprous bride of Christ." The bumper sticker bears the same sentiment, "Christians aren't perfect, just forgiven!" The Early Church "was no Pollyanna Community. The epistles of the New Testament describe people and groups that experienced fractures and conflict, anger and division, as well as peace and joy." 1
1Loren B. Mead, "The Once and Future Church" page l0.
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