100 Pianos: Are You In Tune With God or The Church's Fellowship?

...that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You, that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. --John 17:21

     Someone may fear that we are magnifying private religion out of all proportion, that the "us" of the New Testament is being displaced by a selfish "I."
     Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow.

     So one hundred worshippers meeting together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be were they to become "unity" conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship.

     Social religion is perfected when private religion is purified. The body becomes stronger as its members become healthier. The whole church of God gains when the members that compose it begin to seek a better and a higher life. The Pursuit of God, pp 90, by A.W. Tozer.

“Revival does not begin when thousands of people gather together in large stadiums, motivated by charismatic preachers to pray and collectively worship; it begins when each one of us surrenders to God’s will in our own back yard.” Joe Ortiz, author, The End Times Passover, July 30, 2010