I don’t know about you, but I am fed up with the religious program of what we call church. No disrespect to those who are doing it the right way and Lord bless those who haven’t gotten there yet. However, I get very irritated going into a huge building and the greeters barely smile, you go into the sanctuary that I term at times the STANKuary, because I’m sure many times the production must stink in God’s nostrils. When will people drop the denominations, turn the music down if not off and gather to worship the Lord and not come to get “a Word”? I don’t want a quick spiritual high acted out through an hour of yelling, shouting, running, and jumping all around. No, I want to enter into His Gates with thanksgiving! I then want to enter into his courts with praise…..I want to know the end result of drenching God with my worship, with my heart of thankfulness, with my tears of joy and appreciation. I want to know what does God think about the same old “service as usual”, I know I get tired of the same old song, what about God?
If God is a God of giving us a new thing, I can only guess that sometimes He wants to hear something new and fresh. Not rehearsed but straight out of the grateful heart of His child. How about getting back to the basics of why we gather together. In Acts 2: 42-47, it tells us what the early practices were of the church. It tells us that they broke bread, sang hymns, prayed, and Praised God…..And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved (47). If we would focus on God and give Him the adoration due His name, He would take care of us. Matthew 6:33 says, But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness; and all those things shall be added unto you!
Where do we get off coming to hear what God is going to do for us, what God will give us, if I give money God will bless me by Monday. And don’t mention the spiritual auctioneer, looking for someone to stand with him for 30 dollars, then 25, then 15, then 10, then everyone else just give what you can! Oh my, why must we turn the House of the Lord into a den of thieves! If God never does anything else for us, God has already done enough! He is waiting on us!
Seriously people, the way we’ve always done it, has grown powerless, empty, and over worked. The church MUST be relevant and able to reach people using wisdom and love; not through condemnation and judgment! God is a spirit and He is seeking us to worship him in spirit and in truth. Why must all teaching and preaching be yelling and hollering. I don’t know what you are saying!!!! Teach me the Word, teach me how to study the Word, when I come to Bible study I don’t want to be preached to, I would love to be taught how to study the Word correctly. God does not want us ignorant! He wants us to be able to rightly divide the Word of truth, to understand his precepts, being able to follow the preacher and not sit waiting on the que to dance. We must take it back to what God originally instructed us to do…..Go ye therefore, and teach…..(Matthew 28:19). Some of us operate in the principles lacking the power and the other half are operating in the power lacking the principles…..Let’s move forward by taking it back! Back to the basics!
Church of the Almighty God ~ Wake UP!!