Differentiating Religion, Tradition, Church, & Kingdom - Michael - Bog

This work is a "synopsis", of four topics: Religion, Tradition, Church, and Kingdom. We are communicating foundational Biblically based material and research on these topics with the prayer and expectation that the Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of the Son of God will rest upon anyone who reads this text so that a solid, general understanding will be embraced concerning the believers inheritance in Christ through his church (Eph. 1:16-23). Furthermore, we pray and expect that you will be motivated to continue further study and consideration of the power resident in the believer through understanding and Differentiating Religion, Tradition, Church and Kingdom.You may be thinking that since Christians embrace the Bible as the Word of God that all Christians should be able to discern, see, agree and interpret scripture the same way. In a perfect world, every believer would dutifully study the Bible in prayerful dependence upon the Holy Spirit's illumination and receive unified understanding. This is not a perfect world so there is the need to continually proclaim what God is saying to his people.On essentials, the Bible is copiously clear. On issues of less importance, however, the teaching of Scripture is not resolute so this leads to varying human interpretations. The important carriage to take is to be unyielding where Scripture is flexible and to avoid rigidity where Scripture is flexible. There was unity in the early church because they were all steadfast in the apostles' doctrine. There will be unity in the church again when we get back to the apostles' doctrine and forego the other doctrines, fads, and gimmicks that have crept into the church. Let's get back to the "original" pattern and discern what is only Tradition, what is just Religion, who and what is The Church, and how to manifest God's Kingdom in this earth.