Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Who Are We Worshipping?
As a church and a body of Christ, do we really worship Christ in our worship services. I think that pastors have good intentions of trying to motivate their congregation for worship, but that that trying has led to the superstitious worship of man. Pastors begin trusting their methods of ministry rather than in the Almighty God and who He shows Himself to be in Scripture. The congregation begins to worship the feelings and the band and the preacher and trusting what the authorities tell them rather than the Creator and their Savior and God's Word. So they go to church wanting to feel stimulated but their stimulation is entirely man centered and not based upon the Scriptures. The church is in love with itself instead of God. This problem will always be a struggle among churches but our goal should be to keep worship on God and not on man. By keeping the Scriptures at the basis for all of worship and as an active part of the worship service, the church can slowly bring itself out of the horrible pit of man-centered worship that it has fallen into.
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Mhmm. You said, "The church is in love with itself instead of God." The full truth of that statement hits home when it is realized that this is self-defeating. When things are not done as God commanded and intended, they fail.
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