Fellowship - Part 5 (Organic) — Lance Lambert

Romans 12 and the Life of the Body

To the twelfth chapter of Romans. Romans chapter twelve. Romans chapter twelve and I will commence reading from verse one. I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

And be not fashioned according to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God. For I say through the grace that was given me to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but so to think as to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to each man a measure of faith.

For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members have not the same office, so we who are many are one body in Christ, and severally members one of another. And having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, whether prophecy let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith, or ministry let us give ourselves to our ministry, or he that teaches through his teaching, or he that exhorts us through his exhorting, he that giveth let him do it with liberality, he that ruleth with diligence, he that showeth mercy with cheerfulness.

Let love be without hypocrisy, abhor that which is evil, plea to that which is good. In love of the brethren be tenderly affectioned one to another, in honour preferring one another, indeligent not loathful, fervent in spirit serving the Lord, rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer, communicating to the necessities of the saints, given to hospitality, bless them that persecute you, bless and curse not, rejoice with them that rejoice, weep with them that weep, be of the same mind one toward another, set not your mind on high things, but condescend to things that are lowly, be not wise in your own conceit.

Shall we just have a further word of prayer this evening? Lord we do just want to bow again in thy presence and recognize dear Lord that speaker and hearer we are bankrupt Lord to thy grace, we're not going to get anything Lord out of this time unless Lord thou dost come in by thy spirit, we praise thee Lord thou hast made the provision for us in and through our Lord Jesus and oh father we come on no other foundation, no other basis or ground than that which thou has given us our Lord Jesus Christ and his finished work and father we ask thee now wilt thou flood this time as we turn to thy word with divine light and divine life, wilt thou we pray dear Lord get this burden out of thy heart and into our hearts Lord, oh thou seest Lord the poorness of the vessel through which thou must speak but Lord overcome all that we pray as we turn to thee and let thy strength and power be manifested in human weakness and Lord thou seest the weakness of our hearing, let thy power and strength be manifested there too Lord and let this whole evening Lord redound to thy glory and honor because of thy coming in through our Lord Jesus Christ, we ask it in his name, Amen.

As you all know I have been dealing as the Lord has enabled me with different principles of fellowship and this evening I want to take another principle I consider it to be as vital and as strategic as important a principle as any of the ones we have thus far dealt with.

It is the principle of the organic, the principle of the organic, a bit of a mouthful. The principle of the organic. I think that this is another principle of fellowship that the enemy has used every device known to him and every weapon in his armory to somehow or other induce the people of God to contradict because the enemy knows far better unfortunately than most of us that this principle is so vital to the building up of the body of our Lord Jesus Christ, so vital to real fellowship in practice that he will do anything and everything to blind the people of God to this matter.

Ignorance of this principle in its practical outworking and meaning has led to many, many tragedies not only in the history of the church with which we could spend the whole evening dealing with but even in our contemporary situation we see all over the world things which really I believe began with the Spirit of God contradicting this principle of the organic and producing a structure and a system which at the beginning seems to be very much of the Lord but which proves to be later foreign to the life of God.

It is an imposition upon the life of the people of God, upon the life of Christ in the people of God and therefore in the end becomes a very undoing of the deepest desire of the people of God. Some of these dear ones in these moves of the Spirit of God, they desire more than anything else to see the house of God built, they desire more than anything else to see the recovery of truth concerning the body of the Lord Jesus Christ but they themselves through contradicting or contravening this principle of the organic undo the very thing they long to see fulfilled in our day and generation.

The Apostle Paul once said to the people of God at Corinth, we are not ignorant of Satan's devices, we must say sadly against ourselves that for the most part we are ignorant of Satan's devices. Oh, that the Holy Spirit this evening could take something of this matter, could take this principle of the organic and get it into our heart.

Oh, that somehow or other I might be enabled at least by the Spirit of God so to elucidate this principle, so to set it forth that the youngest of us here may see it. May the Lord help us. True fellowship is organic in its nature.

Fellowship as Organic Life Rather Than Human Technique

True fellowship is organic in its nature. You cannot structure it, you cannot systematize it, you cannot reduce it to a technique, to a matter of method, a matter of regulation. You all know those sticky times that we can have when we suddenly say that this is the technique for fellowship.

We don't put it quite like that but we say now we're going to have a time of fellowship. We sit ourselves round in a circle all looking at one another and we say now this is how you have fellowship. One, two, three and four and the time becomes so sticky.

We all look at each other and then we look at the ground and we look at the ceiling and we look over there, we look over there, then we look at each other and we're so thankful whenever anyone even makes a peep.

You know we go, oh, someone's saying something. But even when they've said it, it's artificial. And then as soon as it's all over, we go out and we have fellowship. We make this mistake again and again.

Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that the kind of time like tomorrow like we had the other morning when we had a time of fellowship, it was a most blessed time. But when you try to structure this thing of fellowship, when you try to define as it were methods of fellowship, technique in fellowship, when you try to systematize it, you have somehow or other missed the whole point of real fellowship.

Real fellowship is organic. It is something within the very life of God. Fellowship is inherent within the life of God. You know when real spiritual life comes into a human being, they suddenly desire fellowship.

That is the natural desire to find someone else who's got the same life. Someone else who knows the same Lord. Someone else who's been saved by the same Saviour. We long for fellowship. And the more life we have in us, the more we feel our need of each other.

The strange thing about the life of God is it never makes us self-sufficient. It never makes us self-sufficient. Knowledge always makes us self-sufficient. We feel the more we know in the head, the more we can do without other people.

The more sort of self-contained, self-sufficient we can become. But the life of God somehow creates within us a hunger for the rest of the people of God. It creates within us a hunger for one another.

It creates within us a sense of the need to share with others. Lord Jesus explained it in such simple way. In one way he didn't explain it. It was in prayer and he was speaking to his father in John 17.

But it is explained in those wonderful words of his in John 17 verse 21, that they may all be one, even as thou father art in me and I in thee, that they may also be in us. That's organic. That's an organic fellowship.

You can't structure that. You can't systematize it. You can't reduce it to method or technique. That's a matter of life. And you get the same thing again in Romans chapter 12 in the passage that we have read together where the apostle says in verse 4 and 5, for even as we have many members in one body and all the members have not the same office, so we who are many are one body in Christ and severally members one of another.

And here's the point. Having gifts, differing according to the grace that was given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our ministry, let us give ourselves to our ministry, or he that teaches to his teaching and so on and so forth.

Suddenly we discover that this whole matter of being in Christ, of being one body in Christ, of being members of Christ and members one of another is a matter of fellowship. We don't all have the same thing.

We have differing gifts according to the grace that was given to us. One has something, one has another, and fellowship flows out of that. It's something organic. Now let's look a little more closely at this principle.

The Church as an Organism, Not an Imposed Organization

What I want to say is this, that the church, the body of our Lord Jesus Christ, is an organism. Or let's put it this way, it's organic in nature. Now most evangelicals give lip service to this. Most theological seminaries and Bible colleges will teach that the church of the Lord Jesus Christ is a living organism.

And then they teach everybody how to organize the organism. But you will go through many, many believing fundamental Bible colleges and seminaries where you still find them, and you will discover that they teach that the church is a living organism, a living organism.

Some, it is true, make a distinction between what they call the mystical body of Christ and the church on earth. This is a difference made between something which is all up there in the air, in the heavenlies, invisible, intangible, universal, spiritual, and what is down here on earth which is organized, institutional, earthly, and has every kind of contradiction within it.

Now there is a kind of teaching which I must say I cannot find in the New Testament, that somehow or other up there we have the mystical body of Christ, and down here we have an institutional, organized thing.

The fact of the matter is this, if you take your New Testament and shut out all the ideas you've ever had about church and so on, churches, you must come to the conclusion that the Word of God teaches us that the church on earth is the expression of the church.

That really all it is, is that somewhere on earth is found a fellowship produced from heaven, governed by heaven, developed from heaven, which one day will be caught up to heaven and will return to the earth from heaven.

You come to that conclusion. In these days in which we're living, thank God, more and more true believers are beginning to see the evil of denominationalism. Twenty years ago it was still very respectable to be denominational.

Now even if you're in a denominational church, it's not so respectable to be denominational. We have to thank the World Council of Churches for that, and also the Second Vatican Council, as well as the fact that evangelicals are being pressurized into a corner, where they're having to rethink the whole term church.

And we find all over the place that suddenly it's respectable to be non-denominational. Even if you go to a Baptist church, it's respectable to be non-denominational. Even if you go to a Methodist church, it's respectable to be non-denominational.

Respectable now. We have even groups who seem to feel that the main thing is to be non-denominational. I've got my teeth back into place. We can continue. Denominationalism is not the disease. Listen carefully to me.

Denominationalism is the symptom. You can get rid of every trace of denominationalism, and you've got rid of the symptoms, but the disease is still there. You know, sometimes you can go to the doctor.

This is not devaluing the doctor, but you can go to the doctor and you have some pimples or a rash, and he says, oh yes, yes, yes, he's a very busy man, especially on our side of the Atlantic, and he says, yes, yes, here you are, take this prescription and go.

And off you go to the chemist, and now welfare state, we get something for it, we slap it on the rash, and it's gone. And then it comes up here. So then we put it there, and it comes up here. Then we put it there, and it comes up here.

The fact of the matter is, you can get rid of a symptom, but the disease may stay inside you. To get rid of denominationalism is, thank God, a major step forward. But it is still only getting rid of the symptoms.

What is the disease? The disease is organizationalism. That is the disease. You will discover that every single major denomination began as something organic, became organized and structured outside of the life of Christ, and finally that thing crystallized into a denomination.

The disease is organizationalism. Denominationalism, our labeling of ourselves by all the various names we have, is only a symptom. Now what is the difference between an organism and an organization? An organism has got a very complex, often a very complex and intricate organization.

Don't make any mistake about this. An organism is thoroughly organized, but the difference between an organization and an organism is that an organization is static and man-made, is put together from without to within, whereas an organism has to be born and it is within the life.

Now do you begin to get it? For instance, my body is an organism. Now every one of you here this evening has a body. This is a remarkable fact, but every one of you in this place has brought your body along with you.

I am thankful for that. Now you have the illustration of this whole matter sitting with you. You are sitting in an organism and the organism is sitting in a chair. This organism, this body is an incredible thing, isn't it?

You know, quite a few years ago I was born and I was no more than that size and everything I've got, except these clothes, everything I've got has come out of that. How did I get like this? Did my parents stretch me?

What did they do? How did it happen? No, I grew. I grew. Do you know that this body of mine has got the most incredible organization? I have got a central intelligent system. Believe it or believe it not, so have you.

That intelligent system in you is more intricate than anything in the Pentagon and far more accurate. You have a telephone exchange. You've got all kinds of things in your Do you know you've got a built-in thermostatic control?

When it gets too cold you shiver and that is your thermostat at work. It says, now generate a bit of heat and you start to shake. And when you get too hot you perspire. Not sweat, you perspire. And that is the way that somehow or other your body is trying to cool you down.

But you've got, where did it come from? Where did this intelligent system in your body, which is so remarkable and so accurate, where did it all come from? Did it come from reading books? No. Did your parents play a kind of, endlessly play a kind of tape to you?

That told you how you should react and the way you should react? No. You've got the whole thing in your life. The whole thing is in your life and it was all there when you were born. Parts of it were there but not developed because you didn't need it.

But as you grew, so the whole organisation that you needed to be a contemporary human being, you understand what I mean? The whole organisation developed with you so that an organism is always contemporary.

It never falls behind. It's always contemporary. You see, here I am, quite a few years after I was born, but I'm contemporary. You may not feel it, but I am. I'm contemporary. Do you understand the word contemporary?

You use it over here, I hope. In other words, my body is absolutely contemporary. I'm not living back in 1935. I'm living here in 1975. I've got a body that's absolutely renewed. All the cells of my body are being renewed all the time.

I'm living a contemporary life. I've got a contemporary body. I've got a contemporary organisation. Some things have had to be cut back because I've grown older and other things have had to be developed in order to keep me contemporary.

Now that is the difference between an organisation and an organism. An organisation is something which is put together. It never grows unless men change it from without. Do you understand? The only way you can bring an organisation, say from 1935 up to date, is to try and change it from without.

It doesn't grow from within. If you had a 1935 car, automobile as you say, it would still be a 1935 car in 1975. It's an organisation but it's a static organisation. But my body is contemporary in 1975.

How come? Because my body has an organisation that is developed from its life. Now the whole key to this matter of organisation is where it finds its origin. You see, we cannot do without organisations.

It is stupid to think that the people of God can do without all organisations. Things have to be done decently and in order. There has to be a certain amount of organisation. That is obvious. But where does it come from?

Where does it come from? Does it find its origin in the life of God? Or is it something that we are thinking up and conceiving from the Bible and imposing upon the life of God? Sometimes, you see, we think we see a weakness.

Oh, I could speak for an hour on this matter just from observations and experiences I've had in all kinds of things all over the place. You see, people see a weakness amongst the people of God and it's a real weakness and then they begin to talk and discuss and think and think and think and discuss more and then they look at the Bible and then they think again and then they discuss more.

Perhaps at the end they have a little bit of breath. And then they produce something to answer to the weakness. Of course, when it first comes in it seems to be marvellous, absolutely marvellous. It seems to be an answer to the weakness.

But what we have done unwittingly is we have we brought a structure in that hasn't come out of the life. It's come out of our head. And in the end, that structure will kill the life of God inside. It will suffocate it.

It will strangle it. It will bleed it to death like a parasite living on something else. It will drain everything out of it till it's killed. Now, that leads me to say that everything is within the life of Christ.

Everything is within the life of Christ. The church is within the life of Christ. You can't put the church together. That's the whole danger of books which define for us church principles. We need to see clearly what these things are.

But the danger has always been the same. As soon as some people get hold of that, they're off. Now we've got it. Now we've got it. Now we can put it together. Just get a few people to get God together and we'll have this and we'll have that and we'll have the other.

And you on this side are terrific at this. You'll ride away in a moment. We are very much more slow and stupid on our side of the Atlantic. But over here you've got a business instinct. As soon as you see the technique or the way or the idea, you're in.

That is the whole danger of this matter. We tend to think that anyone who's saved can put the church together. That somehow or other all you've got to do is to know certain teachings, certain principles and then you can start.

But principles are living things. They are within life. What we have to do is to recognise a principle and then see that we obey it. That's a different thing to trying to structure it. I wonder whether you understand what I'm trying to say this evening.

Pentecost, Spiritual Gifts, and the Body of Christ

What is the meaning of Pentecost? Didn't those dear, those 120 in the upper room, don't you think that those dear ones had a perfect church? 120 saved believers in an upper room gathered around a risen Christ with an open Bible, pure doctrine.

I said this before, I believe, when we began this time. We couldn't have asked for more. But something happened on the day of Pentecost which was all together in a different realm. When the Holy Spirit came, what was the meaning of His coming?

That we might speak in tongues, that we might have gifts, that we might have a manifestation. My dear friend, all these things may be true, but that's not the meaning of the coming of the Holy Spirit.

Those are the evidences of the equipment. What is the end? The end was this, that within the life of our risen Lord transmitted to us through the Holy Spirit, we suddenly find the church has come. In other words, it was the risen life of our glorified Lord that came by the Holy Spirit into 120 members of a congregation and turned them into 120 members of a body.

From then on, they were an integral part of one another. They belonged to Christ and to one another. They shared in a way they never shared before. Now they were in living touch with the head. Now they could get a direction from the head.

Slowly but surely an organization began to develop. But it's interesting when you see the kind of organization, how it developed. It all came from the life of God. In other words, it was fellowship that came with the Holy Spirit.

God is faithful through whom ye were called into the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ our Lord. The pattern of the church, the gifts necessary for the building up of the church, the functions of the body, they're all within this life of Christ.

Once we can see the life of Christ flowing through members of the body, we begin to see the development of a pattern. People get so caught up on this thing about elders and deacons. Oh dear, all over the place they're so caught up on this shepherdhood business and everything else.

We must have elders, we must have shepherds, we must have this, we must have that. Oh my dear dear friend, the first thing we need to bother about is loving one another. Caring for one another. And as we share that life and really submit as it were one to another, God by His Spirit raises up those that must take responsibility amongst us.

And we shall all know that they are. Come on, there'll be no question about it. The tragedy is this, you can start making people elders who are not elders. You start making people deacons who are not deacons.

You start making people apostles who are not apostles. I have people coming to us saying, I'm an apostle. God help us. I'm an apostle. Really? And they say yes, yes, so and so laid his hands on me and set me aside, I'm an apostle.

I have no doubt that there are times when hands should be laid on people and people should be recognised. And no wonder the apostle Paul says, lay hands on no man suddenly. Give time for the organic so that we can see in men something happening.

Oh there is a pattern, make no mistake about it, there is a church pattern. You see, people always say that the Methodist pattern is found in the Bible and the Baptist pattern is found in the Bible and the Presbyterian pattern is found in the Bible and they say the Episcopalian pattern is found in the Bible and the Brethren pattern is found in the Bible and the Pentecostal pattern is found in the Bible.

All these patterns are found in the Bible. It's incredible, isn't it? I am quite sure that our Lord, who was not limited in knowledge in any way, could have cleared this whole matter up by giving us one simple chapter in the New Testament which exclusively dealt with the pattern of the church once and for all.

And He never did. That's why you get one pattern built on one thing and another pattern built on another and another pattern built on another and another and it's all fragments of the pattern. Why? Don't you think our Lord, if He was so interested in the building of the church, could have given this whole thing clearly to us?

Of course He could have done. But what our Lord was trying to tell us was this, that the whole thing is a spiritual matter. It is within life and the thing to bother about is life. The resurrection life of Christ is at least two or more members of Christ.

When we start to bother about that, then in the end a pattern will develop. I've said to this some years ago to you, maybe I said it last year, I'll say it again because it has to be said again and again.

You know if I were to take some things and plant them, I'd take, you know what a daffodil is, a daffodil bulb and an onion bulb. They look so alike. How come that when I plant an onion bulb and a daffodil bulb, the daffodil comes up a daffodil and the onion an onion?

Now wouldn't you think that sometimes they might make a mistake and the onion become a daffodil and the daffodil an onion? They look so alike. They look so alike. How come they never change or swap? Do you know you can take one daffodil bulb and plant it in a field of one million onions and the one million onions will come up onions and then one single little daffodil all on its lonesome in the centre of the field will come up a daffodil.

Now wouldn't you think that one bulb that looks so much like those million onions would think, well I'm so much like them, I'll be an onion. What is the key to the whole thing? The key is this, that the daffodil has a pattern within its life.

It has daffodil life. The onion has an onion life. The pattern is in the life. Do you understand? It's all in the life. Once the life starts to develop and grow, you have the pattern. We learnt this lesson at home so deeply and so bitterly.

When we first began years ago, we were as green as green could be. The one thing we did was to seek the Lord about everything. But on this matter we naturally were very taken by the fact of Scripture.

And we began to ask the Lord about elders and deacons because we saw in the Bible that there were such things as elders and deacons. And as we sought the Lord we saw, well they prayed and fasted. So we had two weeks of prayer and fasting.

And in those two weeks of prayer and fasting, three, at the end of it, three men were made elders and four men were made deacons. Now we couldn't have had a more perfect church pattern. Nor could we have got this pattern in a more spiritual way.

After all, there are not that many people who would fast and pray for two weeks. But we prayed and fasted for two weeks and we ended up with three elders and four deacons. And everything went on for a year or two blissfully.

People were saved, everything seemed to be right and good. But then after a year or two we became aware, that I became aware anyway, and I think one or two others did, of a kind of like tremor, a kind of spiritual shaking deep down within the very life of the company of God's people.

And it ended in one autumn with 13 of us brothers spending a day of fasting and prayer together to seek the Lord. Now in that time, it was in the study at Halford House, I happened to be on the table halfway through the day.

I had my eyes open in prayer. I looked across and I saw on the table an acorn vase. Now I always have difficulty in explaining this, but it's one of those little vases that you put an acorn from an oak tree in and you can see it grow.

You know, you see it root come and then you see the thing go out, it grow up and so on. And as I was looking at it, the Lord said to me, that's the answer to your prayer. So I looked very carefully at this acorn vase and thought, what?

And I thought, I'm crazy. But then again the voice deep in me said, that's the answer to your prayer. So I looked again at the acorn vase and then the Lord said to me, you see the acorn? The pattern you've got is like that outward shell, perfect, but it's static.

Inside that acorn is life and that life has got the pattern of an oak tree in it. That life inside, if you will let it, will break the outward shell and grow up into an oak tree capable of reproducing other oak trees.

Then I saw it in an instant. We had produced by the most spiritual means possible, fasting and prayer, we had produced a pattern. Then we didn't know what to do. I shared it with the brothers, we all prayed about it, we became of one mind and we sought the Lord, what shall we do about this pattern that we've got?

And we felt the right thing to do was to hand the whole thing over to God. Which we did. There came this wonderful Sunday when one after another, all those with responsibility sort of faded out. A girl playing the piano was an LREM.

She sort of played and it sounded like a cross between a catfight and Arabic music. She tried again and it was worse. And then she finished all together weeping and she said she couldn't play anymore, that was her vow.

One of the brothers who was quite a gift of the gap stood up and what came out of him was neither a tongue nor was it English. It was certainly not grammatical, he stopped and started again and then covered in confusion he sat down, that was him out.

We ended that Sunday with one elder and one deacon and then we said well that's no longer a New Testament pattern and so the whole thing went overboard and we all became brothers. Now the most amazing thing happened when we all became brothers again and just committed ourselves to one another in the Lord, then the Lord started to do some quite remarkable things.

People we least expected began to emerge in the next year, heads and shoulders above the rest. The point was that the pattern we had was stopping the organic development and that thing was growing. You see we're not dealing with something that's a fairy tale, we're dealing with realities.

This thing was growing inside the company, it was the organic life, it had come up against the output shell and it couldn't get through it because we had imposed the structure and the only way it would come through was by breaking the whole thing open.

Now I have seen more works that I believe were in their beginnings of God wrecked by this elder deacon complex, this shepherdhood complex than any other thing. You can make people elders, it's very hard to de-elderise them.

So the thing sort of gets right into our lifeblood. Oh I wish I could go on about this matter but if we're going to cover what I want to cover this evening we really can't. But my point is simply this, that within the life of Christ you have got all the pattern of the church and once we bother ourselves about seeing that that life of the Lord Jesus is flowing through us, the pattern will come and so will the function and so will the gift as we hold fast the head by the Holy Spirit.

We shall find the body and the will increase with the increase of God. The body will build up itself in love. All these functions and gifts that are necessary will come. There have been times when we have become deeply bothered in the work at home about certain weaknesses.

Seeking the Lord Instead of Engineering Church Life

By the grace of God he has stopped us every time from structuring something or systematising something or somehow or other countering that weakness. What we've done instead is to have a week of prayer.

We have been very honest with the whole company. We've said we'll have a whole day of prayer and fasting. Or we'll have a week of prayer. We'll tell the Lord that there is a weakness. For instance, take the matter of relatedness.

We feel that there's a lack in our company of discipline or relatedness at some particular point. Then we saw it as brethren. Then we said to the company we feel the need now is that we should get before the Lord and ask him, Lord do something about this weakness amongst us.

God has preserved us from somehow or other trying to answer those weaknesses with our own spiritual biblical solutions. But instead we have seen something and we've seen the Spirit of God come in and relate people to one another.

You see dear child of God, it all goes back to this whole thing of who is head. It all comes out of this principle of authority. If once we really see that he's been made head over all things to the church, then when we see weaknesses we shall get through to the head.

And we will say to the head, now Lord we believe this and this and this needs to be done. Oh release something from heaven. Do something about this matter. Do you begin to understand what I mean? Wouldn't we have been saved from some innovation?

Some things that have destroyed real works of God. If instead of just trying to answer some dullness in our meetings, some burst in our meetings, some lack of ministry in our meetings, we have instead got on our knees and asked the Lord to do something.

If we had called as the Lord said, pray the Lord of the harvest. Please turn the cassette over at this point. That's the principle. That he may send forth labourers into his house. If we see there's a need of ministry amongst us, why don't we get on our knees and say Lord, Lord do to tackle whatever it is that's stopping you from raising ministry amongst us.

Get through to it Lord. You see by our very act of being together in the Lord and praying together, we find each other in the Lord. This is real fellowship. It's real fellowship. The head has transmitted by the Spirit a sense of weakness to us.

We begin to see an area of weakness and instead of trying to answer it just like that, we go back to the head and say what will you have us do? There's a pain here. There's an area of paralysis here in the body.