Do you believe that the instructions of 1 Cor. 14:23-40 are still applicable to Christian gatherings?

First Corinthians 14 presents a wonderful picture of a healthy Christian meeting. When the saints are enjoying the Lord’s word, opening their hearts to Him in prayer, experiencing Him in their daily life, and speak with the exercise of their spirit then such a meeting can be fresh and living. If, in addition, they know the truth and how to express spiritual things in spiritual words, then the meeting can also be nourishing and enlightening. However, those are big ifs. We Christians are quite capable of making even the highest and best spiritual practices into empty forms with little spiritual reality. From time to time we have realized that our spiritual exercise and meetings were becoming old and stale. Then we need to seek the Lord again so that we can find Him afresh. We are endeavoring to have a meeting each Lord’s Day according to the principle of "each one has" as shown in verse 26. At the present time, we also feel that we need regular ministry meetings with definite content at other times during the week to educate the saints. Our concern is the profit and building up of the saints, not certain practices and forms of worship.

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