"Not beyond what is written," 1 Corinthians 4:6.
This line still talks about wisdom and foolishness, pride and humility. It says we must learn this: Follow only what is written. This is what the Lord's earliest missionaries lived by, so that we'd do the same. Because when we humans base our faith on our unique experiences (and not in the writings of Scripture) then we get puffed up in the pride of our wonderful experience against others' lesser experiences. (Now, each of us may well have had experiences ...) But in fact, we received our faith just like everyone else does. We received it by hearing what has been written. It did not originate in our better-than-others' experiences. We received it. So we claim nothing beyond what is written.
We visit with a brother or sister today humbly recognizing our common faith in Christ, the Word. And together we give thanks to God our only source for the faith.
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