I am convinced that 1 Cor 12-14 just cannot exist within the traditions of our fathers. One of the reasons the hippies, the “Jesus freaks,” of the late 60s and early 70s were so refreshing is that the Lord took their rebellion against organized religion and used it in a very simple but highly effective way.
It was like taking a complex arrangement of a song and breaking it down into one man and a guitar where the words and the simple melody could shine through. And then, tragically, that generation became what they had initially rejected. Mostly, I believe, because men wanted positions and titles just like” their fathers,” before them. The simplicity of the original movement got swallowed whole by the religious system it sought to replace.
The Church, I believe, is called to be a counter culture, called out and set apart, to be a beacon in the darkness. Yet, we always seem to underestimate the huge power of the religious mindset. And here we are again, the non denominational system almost entirely consumed by “rot and rut and routine,” as Tozer would put it.
A Call To The Remnant 