Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind, and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God. –Colossians 2:16-19
Many people will tell us, you have to do this or do that to live for God.
We are not meant to blindly follow man. We are meant to know God and follow Him. We are called to know the truth for ourselves to read the scriptures and come to the same understanding or not.
We are meant to direct others to God, so that they develop their own relationship with him. Not be there proxy.
When we attended a house church, each week the leader would ask. ‘What has God been teaching you this week?’ Various people would share, not always the same ones. Most of the time what each of us shared was connected. Sometimes we would help someone going through something and sometimes lots of were going through the same thing without even realizing it. But the focus of the group was always to seek God and to help each others do the same.
We all have the same goal. It isn’t about a certain teacher or teaching but about deepening our relationship with God and helping each other do the same.
In everything we do it should be about seeking God. Letting Him direct our words, our actions and development of a deeper relationship with Him.
It’s good to go to a counsel of believers, but we need to make sure you are seeking God for ourselves and not relying on the faith of others.
