We’ve taken the legitimate gift of teaching, warped it into a monopolizing monologue sermon, given it a pulpit on an elevated stage in a building filled with spectator seating, and wrapped the whole idea of “church” and our assemblies around it …

To the exclusion of all the other gifts and functions given by God for the mutual participation and building up of one another.

Is it any wonder, then, that we find effective discipleship and spiritual maturity so missing in our “churches” these days???