If the church you are attending or have attended in the past, were to have the pastor to get up this Sunday morning and read a romance novel, told feel good stories and sang country music songs, rather than reading the Bible, preaching against sin and singing worship and praise music, would there be a difference in the outcome of the service? Would there be any more repentence, any more salvations, or life changing experiences?
The reason many of you don't attend church service, don't want to attend church service and have no intention to ever attend church services, is because there is no power there. You have never experienced the moving of the Holy Spirit, you have never seen God work, all you have wiitnessed is a bunch of ordinary people, doing ordinary stuff that has shown you and the world that, "anybody" can do that.
Question, If you where never to mention God in your church services again, would the church still continue on? Would there be a change, a difference? Or would it be staus quo?
Does your place of worship, just tack the name of God on to the people's strategies? Is He just an add on, to make us feel like we are doing something positive and to make us feel safe?
What is strangly missing in churches is His power. He is just a tag to our programs, personalities and professionals. Churches are carrying on without the power of God, but for what reason.
That is why you unchurched don't like organizated religion, or coming to the house of prayer, or say to me, "I don't want nothing to do with that shit", because all you have ever seen is the workings of man!!! Man's strategies. Man's programs. Man's attempt at doing what they feel is correct. But where is His power?
I am praying right now for God to do something in your life that cannot be explained away as man's doing. I'm praying that eyes are opened that you will see the eternal, and get your eyes off of the temperal.
It is eveident that the Holy Spirit is missing in our church buildings, and as we read in Revelation 3:20 we see why, as Jesus Himself is standing on the OUTSIDE of the church in Laodicea, knocking on the door saying, "Here I am. Let me in."
Read the Book of Acts, in Chapter 1 there were 120 disciples, then Jesus ascended to the right hand of the Father, and the Holy Spirit came down to aide the believers with their mission of spreading the good news and seeing souls converted, saved, and in about 2 days after the power fell, the church grew by 3,000 people. WHERE IS THE POWER??? Those believers in that upper room were not plotting strategies, or mapping out programs they were praying for the Power to fall, and He did, and you can read the rest.
You can say your church (your place of worship is you), that you can worship anytime, AMEN, but remember Christ died for the church, and the Word says forsake not the assembling of yourselves together on the Lord's day to WORSHIP HIM. You say you don't need a bunch of people to help you worship God, right on, but how much more power we would have IF we got together and prayed as one to the One as they did in the upper room?
I'm praying and willing to give up the temporal for the eternal. I'm praying for you to experience the REAL power of an almighty God, I'm asking God RIGHT NOW to cause YOU to step right up in the middle of the power of the HOLY SPIRIT. God knock'em down, if it will cause them to look up.
Cochise
P.S. I'm not going to pass the plate today, as this one is on me.
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