That's the question the pastor asked in church yesterday. He then proceeded to tell about a group of believers that live in an Asian country that have to meet in secret. They all gather in a small room with nothing but the Word - no sound system, no PowerPoint, no worship team, no beautifully decorated worship center, nothing but their Bibles, if they even have one. It made me think about the things we argue about in our churches and the reasons people give for leaving one church to go to another. I think we're spoiled and have focused on the wrong things for too long. I hope we can experience revival and get back to the most important thing - our love and devotion to God and for each other. May God have mercy on us.
Monday, October 11, 2010
Is the Word of God enough?
That's the question the pastor asked in church yesterday. He then proceeded to tell about a group of believers that live in an Asian country that have to meet in secret. They all gather in a small room with nothing but the Word - no sound system, no PowerPoint, no worship team, no beautifully decorated worship center, nothing but their Bibles, if they even have one. It made me think about the things we argue about in our churches and the reasons people give for leaving one church to go to another. I think we're spoiled and have focused on the wrong things for too long. I hope we can experience revival and get back to the most important thing - our love and devotion to God and for each other. May God have mercy on us.
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Jeff Nevels suggested we read a book titled "Radical"--I think this goes with the theme you're writing about, and how the American church, or the western church, gets caught up in the comfortable lifestyle, and loses focus on how God wants us to live.
Anytime I hear anything like this, I think about all the "let's do a Bible study" conversations I've had where the people don't actually want to do a Bible study, but they want to study a book written by someone. Sure, it references things in the Bible, but it's not actually *studying the Bible*, per se.
*sigh*
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