Section 16
him a longer period of time, at least seven days, to be made clean. This indicates that in the eyes of God death is more serious than sin.
CARING FOR LIFE IN THE SPIRIT
It is better to make a mistake in functioning in the meetings than to be dead and not make any mistakes at all. To be wrong is not as serious as to be dead. If you do not function, you may be right, but you are right in a dead way. I would rather see you livingly wrong than dead right. I do not encourage you to make mistakes. But sometimes it is better to be more concerned about being living than about your being right. We need to recognize the symptoms of deadness to know whether we are dead or alive.
In the Gospel of John the Lord Jesus does not give yes-or-no answers to the questions addressed to Him. For example, the Samaritan woman said, ''Our fathers worshipped in this mountain, and you say that in Jerusalem is the place where men must worship" (John 4:20). She was asking the Lord Jesus concerning the proper place of worship. Was it in the mountain in Samaria or in Jerusalem? The Lord Jesus an swered, "But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the