Corporate Commitment #563

Individualism pervades Christianity. It has to do with how we commonly approach faith in God through Jesus Christ. Faith, we say, is personal not public. We therefore emphasize what we can do and what we must do as individuals. We emphasize personal commitment, personal devotions, and personal relationships with Christ. Christians getting their spiritual food via e-mail and web sites sitting by themselves before a computer accentuates this individualism.

The picture of heaven in the Bible is very different than that of individuals scattered about enjoying eternal bliss. "Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne and the living creatures and the elders; and the number of them was myriads of myriads, and thousands of thousands.... And every created thing which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all things in them, I heard saying, ‘To Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, be blessing and honor and glory and dominion forever and ever’" (Revelation 5: 11 and 13).

Here is the greatest choir ever assembled. All of heaven, gathered around the throne, rejoices in God and in Jesus Christ. Personal commitment to God through Christ leads us to this consummate corporate scene. In the interim, personal faith leads us into a commitment to the corporate body, the church, still in this world.

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