sufficiency

What one believes about the sufficiency of scripture for faith, life and ministry will directly influence their practice.

Will they add additional structures, plans and programs to what the Bible has laid out, or will they trust that through its complete words God will speak?

Will they conjur dreams, visions and emotion to hold onto, or deem God's laws as appropriate enough to take joy in?

Be it in Israel's day of conquest, the early church's founding, or in the life of the contemporary church today, this principle still remains true:

"You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you (Dt. 4:2 nkjv)."

Let us not be guilty of knowingly or unkowingly adding to God's commands.