Separating religion from the worship of God
Greetings in the name of Jesus:
The Holy Spirit is guiding me to deal with the subject of the body of Christ in a different way from the way the religious community does. Gas it is time for me to begin to step on the toes of those who have believed in the traditional approaches to worship. We have discussed in various ways the need for mankind to separate himself from the world around him in order to concentrate on a complete relationship with God in this life. We have not touched on some of the pitfalls that have come about in our unwillingness to step away from the roles of tradition to find out what our particular relationship with God should be. What I mean is our individual relationship with God, and not our collective relationship.
It has been just another trick of Satan that has led us to believe that we do not have the right to a personal relationship with the father. Many of the churches have gone to a kind of mass worship that involves group prayer and group participation in a kind of worship that ends up deep personalizing what we eat in the with in our hearts. Remember that it is Satan's main goal to keep us as far away from finding out who we were created to be as is possible because he fears the power that we can have one we are fully aware of our inheritance.
One of the main tools used in Satan's fight against the Christian of today is the desire to be a part of something that makes us feel good. The idea that we are not alone in our efforts to serve God makes us all feel comfortable. That is done by putting us all into the same place. All the enemy has to do from that point is to control the input and the output of one source of information instead of the individual communication between ourselves and the Holy Spirit. The enemy knows that it would be impossible to control that kind of a communication and so we have created the church of today. What better way to control children of God than to have them in different camps of thought with regard to worship were they refuse to fellowship with one another because their particular church affiliations disagree. The original church that was established by the power of the Spirit of God had no disagreement in worship because it was individual each one. There may have been preferences just like there are today yet the concepts of what they worshiped who they worshiped and why they worshiped were intact. The first Christians knew that their beliefs were based upon the salvation that Christ brought by his death burial and resurrection for sin. All of the other things that came about were of a less important role in their lives. Today we are separated by the thought that we cannot worship together based upon what we think we know about another's beliefs or style of worship, but what do we really know? What do we know about others' forms of worship of God? What have we dared to learn about even those who are closest to our own forms of worship? Who is right and who is wrong?
No matter if we realize it or not we drank this world to services with this when we worship and that is the reason that we have so much trouble in finding peace with our worship. The fact remains that we must concentrate on finding a first-place in the kingdom according to this world there is a story called the third place runner; it is found in the book" chicken soup for the unsinkable soul" the young man in this story was with the special Olympics and there were only three runners in the race. The concept of the story was that as each runner ran across the finish line they were each one greeted with the same amount of cheers and hugs and kisses. The encouragement and the enthusiasm for each runner no matter where they placed in the race was the same. Our success is not dependent on being in first place, but rather it is found in the attitude of celebration we have in finishing the course that is set before us. The world has infiltrated our worship in the established churches to the point that we can no longer be satisfied with our role in service to the father. It is the same discontentment that Satan instilled in those who served God as angels in heaven. It is the same division that has caused us as children of God to separate ourselves from all others in our worship and fellowship in God. It is the same separation that causes us today to be so weak in our ability to combat evil in this world.
When we take our eyes off of God and put them on our own successes we fail just like Peter failed in his attempt to walk on the waters with Christ. In order for us to become leaders of men it is said that we must first concentrate on becoming servants of mankind. It becomes how we view our life and what it is worth to the inner man we are that governs how will we deal with the things of everyday life around us. I want for you to remember that the original established church as God had intended it to be was based upon several areas: SHARING: what is it we are supposed to share? How far should we be willing to go with Sherry? And who is it that we share with? TEACHING: what should we be teaching that is not taught today? What is our purpose in teaching? What is our purpose and learn? Is there a difference in what is being taught today compared to the church that was established by Christ? SERVING: what purpose do we serve? Who is it we served today in church compared to what the first churches did? WORSHIP: we have so many different standards of worship in our society, but what is separating us from one another as children of God? How important is the type of worship and serving God today? COMMISSION: what is it we have been told to do by God as a church? Are we doing it? And why is it we are thinking what we are thinking? These are just a few of the many questions we need to get answers for. May you richly bless God through your life in him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
The Holy Spirit is guiding me to deal with the subject of the body of Christ in a different way from the way the religious community does. Gas it is time for me to begin to step on the toes of those who have believed in the traditional approaches to worship. We have discussed in various ways the need for mankind to separate himself from the world around him in order to concentrate on a complete relationship with God in this life. We have not touched on some of the pitfalls that have come about in our unwillingness to step away from the roles of tradition to find out what our particular relationship with God should be. What I mean is our individual relationship with God, and not our collective relationship.
It has been just another trick of Satan that has led us to believe that we do not have the right to a personal relationship with the father. Many of the churches have gone to a kind of mass worship that involves group prayer and group participation in a kind of worship that ends up deep personalizing what we eat in the with in our hearts. Remember that it is Satan's main goal to keep us as far away from finding out who we were created to be as is possible because he fears the power that we can have one we are fully aware of our inheritance.
One of the main tools used in Satan's fight against the Christian of today is the desire to be a part of something that makes us feel good. The idea that we are not alone in our efforts to serve God makes us all feel comfortable. That is done by putting us all into the same place. All the enemy has to do from that point is to control the input and the output of one source of information instead of the individual communication between ourselves and the Holy Spirit. The enemy knows that it would be impossible to control that kind of a communication and so we have created the church of today. What better way to control children of God than to have them in different camps of thought with regard to worship were they refuse to fellowship with one another because their particular church affiliations disagree. The original church that was established by the power of the Spirit of God had no disagreement in worship because it was individual each one. There may have been preferences just like there are today yet the concepts of what they worshiped who they worshiped and why they worshiped were intact. The first Christians knew that their beliefs were based upon the salvation that Christ brought by his death burial and resurrection for sin. All of the other things that came about were of a less important role in their lives. Today we are separated by the thought that we cannot worship together based upon what we think we know about another's beliefs or style of worship, but what do we really know? What do we know about others' forms of worship of God? What have we dared to learn about even those who are closest to our own forms of worship? Who is right and who is wrong?
No matter if we realize it or not we drank this world to services with this when we worship and that is the reason that we have so much trouble in finding peace with our worship. The fact remains that we must concentrate on finding a first-place in the kingdom according to this world there is a story called the third place runner; it is found in the book" chicken soup for the unsinkable soul" the young man in this story was with the special Olympics and there were only three runners in the race. The concept of the story was that as each runner ran across the finish line they were each one greeted with the same amount of cheers and hugs and kisses. The encouragement and the enthusiasm for each runner no matter where they placed in the race was the same. Our success is not dependent on being in first place, but rather it is found in the attitude of celebration we have in finishing the course that is set before us. The world has infiltrated our worship in the established churches to the point that we can no longer be satisfied with our role in service to the father. It is the same discontentment that Satan instilled in those who served God as angels in heaven. It is the same division that has caused us as children of God to separate ourselves from all others in our worship and fellowship in God. It is the same separation that causes us today to be so weak in our ability to combat evil in this world.
When we take our eyes off of God and put them on our own successes we fail just like Peter failed in his attempt to walk on the waters with Christ. In order for us to become leaders of men it is said that we must first concentrate on becoming servants of mankind. It becomes how we view our life and what it is worth to the inner man we are that governs how will we deal with the things of everyday life around us. I want for you to remember that the original established church as God had intended it to be was based upon several areas: SHARING: what is it we are supposed to share? How far should we be willing to go with Sherry? And who is it that we share with? TEACHING: what should we be teaching that is not taught today? What is our purpose in teaching? What is our purpose and learn? Is there a difference in what is being taught today compared to the church that was established by Christ? SERVING: what purpose do we serve? Who is it we served today in church compared to what the first churches did? WORSHIP: we have so many different standards of worship in our society, but what is separating us from one another as children of God? How important is the type of worship and serving God today? COMMISSION: what is it we have been told to do by God as a church? Are we doing it? And why is it we are thinking what we are thinking? These are just a few of the many questions we need to get answers for. May you richly bless God through your life in him.
THE UNWORTHY SERVANT
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