The Full Gospel Means all Biblical Truth (Edited with ChatGPT)

  

It is our nature to gravitate toward the norm, and that’s why corporate culture and the socialization process matter. Take a lazy and disobedient boy and place him in a real military academy — not the kind that treats people like cannon fodder — and you’ll find he becomes disciplined, hardworking, and responsible. Put a lazy person among diligent workers, and social pressure, both reward and correction, will slowly reshape him. But if you place an honest, hardworking person among the corrupt and lazy, they will torment him until he either leaves or they find a way to push him out. Yes, corporate culture and the social environment deeply influence who we become.

 

Now, look at your assembly. Examine its corporate culture. Reflect on our faith and its nature. I once heard someone say, “If Paul found us today and saw how we live, he would preach the gospel to us, assuming we weren’t even believers.” That observation struck me. Our way is so far from the biblical path that the world has become our norm. The tragedy is not just that we’re wrong — it’s that we can no longer even imagine what’s right. What is biblical feels foreign to us because we’ve forgotten how to be biblical.

 

In a time like this, when faith has become so corrupted, what kind of Word of God do we need? What we see now is not faith — it’s religion. It’s routine. It’s ritual. It’s everything except true, living faith. Real faith is alive because the source of life, the living God, dwells within us.

 

Faith begins with the second birth and leads to growth. A living being — the Holy Spirit — does not remain stagnant inside us. Jesus said, “My Father is working, and I too am working.” The Holy Spirit didn’t come to sit silently within us; He came to work.

 

The primary purpose of the Holy Spirit isn’t to produce miracles, preaching, or singing. His main purpose is transformation. Only someone with a clean eye can help others see. Only those who are transformed can effectively help transform others. Without this, we are simply practicing religion — empty and hypocritical.

 

In this context, our problem is not assuring salvation to everyone, but ensuring the salvation of everyone. Let’s set aside debates about the second birth or spiritual death — leave those for the mature. There is milk for children and solid food for the mature. Let us focus on the milk until we grow into those ready for bones.

 

Still, we should all agree on this: we need transformation, and we need spiritual growth. Here lies the issue with most assemblies of the Lord. Our measure of growth is based on the “Law of Assemblies” — a modern version of the Law of Moses. Go to church, read your Bible, pray, sing, preach, save souls, and most importantly, pay your dues — then you’re told you have nothing to fear. But who gave you this law? This is law, not grace.

 

Yes, assemblies also need norms and standards. There must be a shared spiritual culture. It’s reasonable to help correct those living in sin. That may require rebuke, counseling, or, in severe cases, even excluding someone who acts like a cancer in the body, eating it from the inside out. But that’s only the bare minimum.

 

As an assembly, we are meant to grow in the Spirit into the image of Jesus. The church should radiate Jesus outward, and people should see Him more clearly in the assembly than even in individuals. My ear is a part of me, but it is only a portion. My eye, my hand — each is part of me but not the fullness of me. Together, in love and unity, they form one body — me. In the same way, the assembly — both the invisible ecclesia and the visible church filled with both good and bad fish — must grow together into the image of Jesus.

 

 

How? By reading the full gospel — not just picking a few verses here and there to support our theological delusions. I’m not even talking about the “meaty” doctrines yet; I’m speaking of the milk — the basic truths. But we need the whole bottle, not just a drop. Whether you are born again or not, whether your salvation is certain or not, once you accept Jesus as Lord and Savior, your responsibility is to grow in the Spirit until the image of Jesus is seen in you personally and — more importantly — in the assembly of God.

 

You have faith? Good. Now add virtue to it. Be a good person. Why? Because the Bible commands it in 2 Peter. Once you become a virtuous person, add knowledge — knowledge of the Word of God and God. The problem is not with the Bible; the problem is when good-hearted people fail to read it deeply. With knowledge, you can grow into the image of God. But which attribute of God should take priority? Is it judgment, mercy, love, or holiness? Among them, love is supreme. You can only judge rightly, show true mercy, and live genuine holiness through love. Without love, your judgment is an abomination, your mercy is a license for sin, and your holiness is nothing but a façade.

 

All the laws and the prophets are summarized by the law of love. Without love, your faith is worthless — and so are you. But love runs deep. It demands your whole heart, mind, and soul for God. Look at how you love your children — how unconditional and selfless it is. Now compare that to how you love God. How much of your time, attention, energy, resources, and life are given to God compared to what you give your children? That is how much you love God — and it’s not much. There’s a long road ahead of us in growing that love.

 

Love for brothers and sisters is critical. Why do we go to the assembly of the Lord? To be blessed by our High Priest? To see spiritual fathers? No — we go to be united with the missing parts of the body. I am the ear; I need the eye. The eye needs the hand. The hand needs the heart. We come together to form one body — the body of Christ.

But what do we actually do? We follow routine. We attend, we pray, we sing, we listen to the Word, and then we run home. Yet we were meant to be one, just as the Heavenly Father and the Lord are one. Our faith wasn't always like this — it decayed into this. This is now our corporate culture, and we’ve made it difficult for people to feel connected to one another. What a shame.

 

The Spirit of God is the Spirit of love. If we are truly saved, we should prove it by producing the fruit of salvation — and the greatest of all fruits is love. Otherwise, all you’ve done is switch religions. You’ve adopted a new routine, but not a new life. You may claim to be alive, but I see no life in you. Life is active, and the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of life.

 

But this isn’t the end. We must love our enemies. We must bless those who curse us and feed those who persecute us. Why? Because that is the nature of God — and we are called to imitate Him. This process begins by loving brothers and sisters, expands to those we already care for, and gradually grows to include our enemies and persecutors.

 

Then what? We keep growing. We increase in faith, in virtue, in knowledge, and in love — until we become like Jesus. And that means this is an eternal process. If this process sounds unimaginable to you, it’s either because you have not been born again of the Spirit and are still flesh and blood, or because you are disobedient to the Holy Spirit and have chosen to remain a spiritual infant.

 

Reading the Bible is not easy — it takes work. But we read it by the help of the Spirit. The Holy Spirit opens our eyes to understand, but still, you must read. He stirs your love and hunger for the Word, but you must obey. If you resist God, He will stop pressing. And you will stay spiritually immature. The same principle applies to every area of spiritual change.

 

God does not ask for your agreement with a smile and a raised hand. He doesn’t run a democracy. He changes you — period. After that, you can either respond with obedience and grow, or resist and become spiritually stunted. This is not democracy; it is the holy tyranny of a good God.

 

Change is a step-by-step process. First, the dirt must be cleared to lay a firm foundation. God kills the old self to establish Jesus as your foundation. Then, on that solid ground, God brings back the “dirt”—your life experience, your personality, your story — to fill in the empty spaces. But if the foundation isn’t set, nothing else can be built. This is how God builds you: step by step, brick by brick, until the image of Jesus becomes visible in your life.

 

During this process, you will grow, but you will also struggle. When God is working on your foundation, your "dirt" won’t resemble a house, and that’s painful. But this is necessary for two reasons: first, it focuses your mind on the right goal. Second, it humbles your heart and makes you more understanding toward others.

 

If your mind is set on spiritual growth — not on superpowers, signs, or wonders, which many fools chase today — then you won’t miss your true destination. No new trend or theological garbage will sway you. But if you don’t know your destination, your path could lead to wealth, power, influence, respect, or whatever garbage the world and the devil offer. Let me tell you plainly: only the children of God will overcome the world. If you want the world, grow. But as you grow, you’ll eventually learn that heaven is far better than earth.

 

Intellectuals, politicians, journalists, and celebrities aren’t truly popular for long. Public approval is shallow and those popular people are often much shallower than the people. The world does love "good" people — but only by human standards, not by heaven’s standards. If you want the world, fine. Grow in the Spirit. But as you grow, you’ll learn to leave childish things behind. For you, and for us, what truly matters is your growth.

 

Besides, there is another problem: assemblies and people without spiritual growth are unstable — full of never-ending fights and a judgmental mindset. They create rigid rules for the assembly and declare saints out of anyone who meets those shallow standards. Unless they’re constantly busy saving souls — going from village to village to stay occupied — they end up creating conflict. Why? Because they are judgmental.

 

It’s said that nobody will notice you even if you walk naked through Times Square in New York. Why? Because people are too focused. When people work for the lord of money — and we know he is a cruel master — they have no time for worthless things, not even for humanistic virtues. Wasting time with you is wasting progress. But in places where progress is stagnant, where life is routine and time is abundant, fights and petty drama become the norm. People have time for all the wrong things.

 

When we work for our Lord Jesus Christ — who is kind and humble — if our minds are focused on spiritual growth, we won’t have time for worthless church politics, divisions, and drama. My salvation is not in the garbage of church bureaucracy, but in heaven. I don’t go to the assembly to sit in a chair, manage money, get paid, or play politics. I go to find the missing parts of my body. That’s why wasting time on church drama is truly wasting time. The reason we fight so much is because we are not growing.

 

And why are we so judgmental and cruel? Because we are not struggling. We’ve inherited ready-made theology, and that’s all we know. So, any different idea is instantly labeled as demonic. Why? Because the Word of God has not been mixed with our lives. We haven’t experienced how knowledge comes step by step. If we were struggling with Scripture, we would remember our own mistakes from yesterday. That would make us patient — not with false theology, but with those who are learning. We’d understand people can make mistakes, and that’s okay. They are not Jesus. We should fight heresy but try to save the heretic.

We have a joke for what’s considered the “norm” of faith. We’re hypocrites — one personality inside, another outside. And most importantly, we are not growing. That’s why we judge harshly. If a prophet makes a mistake, we call him false. But a prophet is still human — he may misuse his gift now and then, but judgment must be by fruit, not by flawless accuracy. A brother may have a wrong theology but still be swimming in a sea of goodness and truth. Yet, like flies, we see only the dirt. We call it crime instead of gospel. But dear, you are the crime. The good may not erase the evil, but it outweighs it. The evil is indeed evil — but the good is very good.

 

Why is this our mindset? Because we are not struggling to grow. When you struggle, you understand not only what growth is, but how many failures come before it. My child didn’t just start running — though it’s in his nature — it took months of trial and error before his running shook the whole house. When we judge, we must judge the good as good, the bad as bad, and the evil as evil — knowing people are not God. We are not standing as saints among angels, but as humans among fellow fallible humans. Such a mindset only comes from spiritual growth and the struggle it demands.

 

Some say spiritual growth is effortless — a simple flow. Then where is Jesus in you? Be like Jesus without struggle — go ahead and try. Why do we struggle? Because our defects are many and our problems are complex. It takes the skillful wisdom of God, over a long period, to transform us.

 

Suppose we are angry, so we speak harshly. People respond by attacking our dignity, and that generates pride in us as a reaction. Can God remove pride from the top without fixing the soil beneath it? No. He begins with the anger. As God removes our anger, we may still talk foolishly for a while. Slowly, peace of mind brings peace of mouth. But as people attack us, we may still react. God continues, changing how we interact, and eventually, pride is rooted out. It’s a process. There is always a struggle between who we are and who we want to be. God doesn’t change us all at once. Sometimes, it’s easier to teach a rat to live with a lion than to change the lion. It’s easier to teach the suffering to accept help than to teach the wealthy to give it. After each change, it must settle before God adds more. This creates solid structures — but again, it is a process.

 

If you resist the process, you will stagnate at some stage — unless God starts working on you in a new direction. People who never struggle are simply people who never try. Even when God says plainly, “Do this,” we still struggle to obey. That’s why our minds should be fixed on growth and service — not judgment. Dears, I have seen you shout for years, but the only thing changing is you — you are becoming more evil, more aggressive, and more judgmental. Whatever you do, let it be to build, not destroy. But before you build, you must be built.

 

First, remove the plank from your eye. Grow in the Spirit until your spiritual eye shines like seven suns. As you grow, don’t leave brothers and sisters behind. Pick them up and bring them along. In our Olympics — where Jesus is enthroned in heaven, not where abominations are paraded on the Olympic stage in France — the winner is not the fastest runner, but the one who picks up the fallen and makes them joint winners. The first will be last, but the last who raise the fallen will be first. Those who lead others from sin will shine like stars in the heavens. Not those who stone the sinner, but those who remove sin from sinners.

 

The message is simple: ensure your salvation by growing spiritually into the likeness of Jesus. If enough of us change, a new generation of born-again believers will grow in a different culture — where love is the norm, kindness overflows, holiness sparkles, and Jesus shines bright in our lives and assemblies. These believers will not struggle as much to grow, because they will be rooted in the right spiritual ecology. Let us build that ecology. And the foundation is spiritual growth — not by might, not by intelligence or power, but by the Spirit of God — the Holy Spirit — and our obedience to His will.