What are the strengths and weaknesses of the Church?  

The strengths of the Church are:

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  Obedience to God through the power of the Holy Spirit.  
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  And understanding of Scripture through the power of the Holy Spirit.  
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  The orders of the church as God has laid them out in Scripture.  
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  Hope in the promises of Scripture.  

The weakness of the Church are:

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  Disobedience, ungodliness, and sin because of depending on the human.  
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  Failure to understand Scripture; depending on human intellect instead of revelation.  
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  Disunity and denominationalism.  
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  Substitution of forms, rituals, intellectualism, and dogma for the Holy Spirit.  
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  Substitution of emotion and entertainment for the power of the Holy Spirit.  
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  Substitution of human orders for the Scriptural orders of the Church.  
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  Tendency to explain away Scriptures that are inconvenient.  
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  Tendency to add to Scripture through rationalism, speculation, and imagination.  
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  Failure to believe the promises of Scripture.