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 Jesus Christ Must alone be the Head of Each Assembly


The Headship of Jesus Christ was not just a doctrine or an idea to the early Apostles but rather a present reality to them. The Lord was the active Head of the Church. They realized it was His Church and everything was done in His Name for Him and through Him.

This apostolic dependency on the person of Jesus Christ allowed the Lord to be in control of each Assembly. “God placed all things under His feet and appointed Him to be Head over everything for the Church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills everything in every way.”

In the life of the Church and in the function of the members of the body it is important to keep our Lord as Head. He should be the center of our thoughts, actions, reactions and endeavors so that all the body looks to the Head for direction and thus unity ensues. He should be spoken of much for all things are from Him and relate to Him.

He is the Head of the Church. Paul the apostle stated: “For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.”

The truth of Jesus Christ being the Head of each Assembly (gathering of believers) is not just important; it is everything. We find in the Book of Revelation statements of great significance towards this. For instance, our Lord says that He will remove the lampstand

from an Assembly if they lose their first love and their first works—the following closely of the Lord’s commands and ways. A lampstand has the light at the top of the stand which represents the presence and testimony of Christ as Head of that Church or Assembly. The light at the top of the lampstand is vital to the life of the Church or Assembly. If the light is severed from the lampstand then Christ is separated from the body being the Church, and the Assembly is dead. Such is the danger when a gathering of believers is not under the Headship of Jesus Christ but under some specific prominent teacher, ism, practice, or even doctrine.

from: http://gospelfellowships.net/principles-book/


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