Can I quickly tell you how insurmountably thankful I am for the Body of Christ and how being apart of a community where the river from the throne is flowing and refreshing is just the greatest thing.

There is a great impostor in the world and it calls itself the church, the body of Christ Jesus, when in fact the spirit of the anti-Christ is its head with all its greed and control and faith in another gospel altogether. But when you read the scriptures and see the hope of the true church, set upon the rock of the Gospel of God, and experience the true reconciliatory and spirit-building power, it truly is unsettling in its perfection.

I still don't believe we have scratched the surface of what it really means to be THE BODY and to be as knit as closely as we need to be to endure the end, but Lord willing, I want to invest in this. Paul was so convicted of the supremacy of the local church that he said of casting out members of the church until they repented being "handed over to Satan" for "the destruction of their flesh" (1Cor5). Beloved (IHOP humor), we need this kind of conviction in our own hearts for the importance of the working of His holy church.