"Spiritual Defined and the Use of Faciltities"

I've been on a discussion list involving the definition of what "spiritual" means. The discussion has moved to how we can use the facilities that belong to the church. I copied the following post to Walker and his response follows.

Maybe we differ on what the work of the church is. I understand from the scriptures that the work of the church is the bringing it's members to full spiritual maturity. Among it's tools are encouragement, edification and admonishment. In addition, the church is a place where believers can exercise their spiritual responsibilities to God and to each other.

Spiritual responsibilities are spiritual imperatives and principles revealed in the scriptures by direct command, example and inference. The application of those spiritual responsibilities are also spiritual. The church and it's resources can be used to accomplish the work of the church in both the bringing of it's members to spiritual maturity and the exercise of their spiritual responsibilities to each other.

From Walker...

You repeat yourself, all of the underlined terms are synonymous. Possibly, I would have reworded it as follows:

The Elders and the resources at their disposal must accomplish the work of the Gospel in bringing the church to spiritual maturity.

Rather than considering the church itself to be an institution with resources and tasks, remember that the church is people acting collectively with a unified set of motives. These people have selected administrators in a manner consistent with their unified set of motives for the purpose of accomplishing the collective will of the people that desire to act in concert with God's will.

If the people are ignorant, than the appropriate course of action would be for the elders/adminstrators to educate--thus, Bible classes.

If the people are disconnected from one another then it is the appropriate course of action for the elders/administrators to make provision to draw them together--thus, social functions.

A multipurpose room open for communal use is merely the most basic and natural expedient to either of these ends, both of which are subject to the same set of unified motives

My response to Walker...

Using synonymous terms to define a concept is a well known teaching tool.