The Gospel and the Gathering Part 5: A New and Living Way

What is the New and Living Way? How Should We worship the Lord in light of that. What should "Church" be like? Where the Old Testament (and the Old Way) is sometimes prescriptive (do this; don't do that), the New Testament (the New and Living Way) is focused entirely on an inward new birth transforming the outward life through the Law that is written in our Hearts. There are many examples in the Old Testament—especially in the Books of the Law—of the people being instructed to do specific things in a very specific way. God directed Moses to have the Tabernacle constructed in a very specific manner, by particular workmen. He was building a building which would be the physical place that God would "tabernacle" among the people. There are clear instructions about dimensions and materials and finishes and furnishings, and then the proper protocol to follow when there. It was similar with Solomon's Temple. And under the Old Way (which centered around Temple Worship), even the method is spelled out. How and when to make sacrifice, to give offerings, and to tithe. But under the new and living way, the external structure is not the focus. The Tabernacle and the Temple and the sacrifices and offerings were only a shadow of the Good thing to come. NOW we have seen his glory – Jesus walked among us—and he CHANGED EVERYTHING