The devil incessantly seeks to destroy Christianity.

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Individuality

• The devil incessantly seeks to destroy
  Christianity.
• By devouring (I Pet. 5 8, I John 2 15-17).
• Appearing as good (2 Cor. 11 13-15).
• He is subtle (2 Cor. 11 3).
• One way the devil negates is by causing us to
  lose sight of the individuality of Christianity.
  

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Individuality
Christians collectively work through the local
church I Tim. 3 15 (see context).
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Individuality
The scriptures also recognize and distinguish
individual action (I Tim. 5 16). There are
things, even, that the individual is to do that
the church is not to do (Ibid.) Sometimes
individual action is stressed over collective
action (I Tim. 5 16, Jas. 1 26, 27).
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Individuality
16 If any man or woman that believeth have
widows, let them relieve them, and let not the
church be charged that it may relieve them that
are widows indeed (I Tim. 5 16).
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Individuality

• Is it unscriptural, wrong, against what is
  taught (I Tim. 5 16) fora local church
  (treasury) to assist a believing widow who has
  childrenand/or grandchildren in the place of the
  children and/or grandchildrenfirst assisting
  their mother/grandmother?That's an easy
  question ... NO! It is not illegal for churches
  to dosuch.This question is really a question
  of legality. When this Scripturetext is twisted
  to become a law-code this question makes sense.
  Whenthis Scripture text is taken the way it was
  intended (a personalcorrespondence to Timothy to
  address a specific issue in Ephesus) thelegality
  question makes absolutely no sense.I don't
  understand the need to pervert the biblical text
  to make lawswhere none are found! (Charles
  Dorsey.)

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Individuality
26 If any man among you seem to be religious,
and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his
own heart, this man's religion is vain. 27 Pure
religion and undefiled before God and the Father
is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in
their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted
from the world (Jas. 1).
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Individuality
Some prefer to be lost in numbers. Hence, they
seek out large churches.
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Individuality
Individuality cannot be discounted. If done,
Christianity forfeits its essential nature.
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Individuality
The obsession to place the emphasis on the
collectivity is over burdening the local church.
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Privately Funded Orders to Preach the Gospel

• What the issue is
• Instead of concurrent action, the two preachers
  establish a Save the Lost foundation into which
  individual Christians contribute.

S.T.L.F.
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Individuality
Christians collectively work through the local
church I Tim. 3 15 (see context).
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Individuality

• We each must individually come to God.
• 1. John 6 44, 45.

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Individuality

• 44 No man can come to me, except the Father
  which hath sent me draw him and I will raise him
  up at the last day. 45 It is written in the
  prophets, And they shall be all taught of God.
  Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath
  learned of the Father, cometh unto me (John 6).

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Individuality

• We must individually be morally pure.
• 1. I Thes. 4 3-7.

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Individuality

• 3 For this is the will of God, even your
  sanctification, that ye should abstain from
  fornication 4 That every one of you should know
  how to possess his vessel in sanctification and
  honour 5 Not in the lust of concupiscence, even
  as the Gentiles which know not God 6 That no
  man go beyond and defraud his brother in any
  matter(I Thes. 4).

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Individuality

• Each one must give an account of himself to God.
• 1. Rom. 14 11, 12.

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Individuality

• 12 So then every one of us shall give account
  of himself to God. 13 Let us not therefore judge
  one another any more but judge this rather, that
  no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to
  fall in his brother's way (Rom. 14).

18
Individuality

• Each husband to love his own wife.
• 1. Eph. 5 33, 28, 29.

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Individuality

• 28 So ought men to love their wives as their
  own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth
  himself. 29 For no man ever yet hated his own
  flesh but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as
  the Lord the church.33 Nevertheless let every
  one of you in particular so love his wife even as
  himself and the wife see that she reverence her
  husband (Eph. 5).

20
Individuality

• We are to be personally persuaded.
• 1. Rom. 14 4, 5.

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Individuality

• 4 Who art thou that judgest another man's
  servant? to his own master he standeth or
  falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up for God is
  able to make him stand. 5 One man esteemeth one
  day above another another esteemeth every day
  alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his
  own mind (Rom. 14).

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Individuality

• Must individually control our own tongue.
• 1. Jas. 1 26.

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Individuality

• 25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of
  liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a
  forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this
  man shall be blessed in his deed. 26 If any man
  among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not
  his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this
  man's religion is vain (Jas. 1).

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Individuality

• Each to carefully build.
• 1. I Cor. 3 10-15.

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Individuality

• 10 According to the grace of God which is given
  unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the
  foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let
  every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon (I
  Cor. 3).

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Individuality

• Each to speak the truth.
• 1. Eph. 4 25.

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Individuality

• 25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every
  man truth with his neighbour for we are members
  one of another (Eph. 4).

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Individuality

• Each to provide edification.
• 1. Rom. 15 2.

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Individuality

• 1 We then that are strong ought to bear the
  infirmities of the weak, and not to please
  ourselves. 2 Let every one of us please his
  neighbour for his good to edification (Rom. 15).

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Individuality

• Each practice pure religion.
• 1. Jas. 1 18-27.

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Individuality

• 26 If any man among you seem to be religious,
  and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his
  own heart, this man's religion is vain. 27 Pure
  religion and undefiled before God and the Father
  is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in
  their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted
  from the world (Jas. 1).

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Individuality

• Individual endurance.
• 1. Jas. 1 12-15.

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Individuality

• 12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation
  for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown
  of life, which the Lord hath promised to them
  that love him. 13 Let no man say when he is
  tempted, I am tempted of God for God cannot be
  tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man
  14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn
  away of his own lust, and enticed (Jas. 1).

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Individuality

• Individually prove own work.
• 1. Gal. 6 3, 4.

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Individuality

• 3 For if a man think himself to be something,
  when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself. 4 But
  let every man prove his own work, and then shall
  he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in
  another (Gal. 6).

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Individuality

• Conclusion
• Yes, there is a difference between individual
  and collective action. The concept of
  collective action is often perverted (general
  benevolence, etc.). However, the concept of
  individual action is equally distorted (the
  collectivity is all seen, etc.)