Corporate Repentance - Robert J. Wieland

Introduction
In the ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judah, the
Lord's almost constant problem was what to do
with human leadership. King after king led the
people into apostasy until the two nations were
devastated and had to go into captivity under pagan
rule.
But never has the Lord had a more difficult
problem to solve than the lukewarmness of "the
angel of the church of the Laodiceans," the human
leadership of His last-day remnant church. The
solution Christ proposes is to "repent." Our usual
"historic" understanding has been that such
repentance is only personal, or individual.
This sounds easy enough, but our history of
nearly a century and a half demonstrates that the
experience has thus far eluded us. Could it be that
He is addressing us as a corporate body, and
therefore He is calling for corporate repentance?
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