Christian society has been in the pursuit of evolution since the primitive era. New sects have been born, thousands of people with different thoughts about doctrines, some even allude to things that others must keep as if they were biblical precepts and this is something that has been affecting the church over the years, since there are too many thoughts about things. The primitive church stood out for several things and one of them is that they were of the same mind (Acts 4:32).
The church must be mature and spiritual enough to know how to separate what are “forms” and what are “biblical principles.” The forms have more to do with our culture than anything else, not all churches in the world have the same way of doing some things, but all must be marked by the principles of the Scriptures. There are different “ways” of doing things within the church; There are some churches where they do not use certain musical instruments because they believe it is not correct, others use it because they do believe it is correct and here we have exactly a variant, one group reduces the principles to forms and the other group elevates the forms to principles, what what is the principle in this case? Well, the 15th Psalm says that everything that breathes praises the Lord.
The biggest mistake of the church has been this: to convert the forms (their way of thinking, culture, their feelings, what they believe) into principles and by doing this they are violating God’s desires for his people, because this is not about of what I believe or what I think, it is about what the word of God says, because as Paul Washer says: “Nobody wants to hear your opinion, they want to hear what the Bible says.”
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