The Lord's Disciples 12 Apostles


The Lord's Disciples 12 Apostles

This is a pretty clean conclusion in theory.
However, the actual church does not go as clean. If only humble people are true apostles, those who criticize the church from the outside will have much to say. Of those who were called as apostles and disciples, who would be able to boast that only one was humble. It is necessary to incorporate a living church where many imperfect people gather in reality in the church theory as a theory here. In a real church where sinners and tax collectors are called, it is necessary to manage as a huge human group spread all over the world. It requires quite a lot of management and administration.

And the church is more than ordinary groups, it must preach our salvation in the middle of this world. So the church can not ignore the common sense and interests of this world. It becomes clear that there is a very difficult problem that the actual Church theory has two contradictory aspects, and that both sides have to be used in one church. One aspect is to live as an apostle, witnessing the resurrection of the Lord. As a large group of ordinary people, there must be management in a very ordinary sense, which is another aspect. But the church is a group of people who received the grace of faith, centered on the apostles called by Christ. This gathering is not limited to talent, technology and experience.

Under it is the grace of God. It goes far beyond the dimensions of natural talent and technology. In terms of talent and technology, the church is blessed with great people. But the church is not just a gathering of great people. Rather, it is a gathering of sinners and tax collectors who have been accused of being frustrated by the Pharisees and Bachelors of Law who have been blessed with good culture and talent. There is something that can not be done here alone by idealism theory of religion and noble discipline and personality theory of culture. Without separating various inconvenient elements, we have to keep it in one life to the point where it does not fit like water and oil. We can not make the church a gathering of noble people who have fully realized.