Question:
Is there any benefits/purpose in comparing churches/pasters?
does attending one church make one more mature/better than
others?
Allow me to para-phase 1Cor3:4,5
4 For when one says, "I belong to Paster Kong(CHC)," and another,
"I belong to Paster Prince(NCC)," are you not merely men?
5 What then is Paster Prince(NCC)," ? What is Paster Kong(CHC),?
Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to
each.
Lets us not go around comparing churches/pasters like picking
apples/oranges saying this one not good or that one not good, this
is not a competition, afterall be it NCC, or CHC or any other
churches, ultimately, we are all part of the one body with Christ
as the head.
example, your money in your left pocket and your money in your
right pocket all belongs to you, as far as you are concern, it does
not matter which pocket the money is.
Same thing with God, the believers in this church and the believers
in another church both belong to God, redeemed by the one work of
Christ.
1Cor 3: 1-11 (RSV)
1 But I, brethren, could not address you as spiritual men, but as
men of the flesh, as babes in Christ.
2 I fed you with milk, not solid food; for you were not ready for
it; and even yet you are not ready,
3 for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and
strife among you, are you not of the flesh, and behaving like
ordinary men?
4 For when one says, "I belong to Paul," and another, "I belong to
Apol'los," are you not merely men?
5 What then is Apol'los? What is Paul? Servants through whom you
believed, as the Lord assigned to each.
6 I planted, Apol'los watered, but God gave the growth.
7 So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only
God who gives the growth.
8 He who plants and he who waters are equal, and each shall receive
his wages according to his labor.
9 For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's
building.
10 According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master
builder I laid a foundation, and another man is building upon it.
Let each man take care how he builds upon it.
11 For no other foundation can any one lay than that which is laid,
which is Jesus Christ.
