Why?

Many such services are a moving of the flesh,and yet it is considered to be worship.
worldly conversation before and after service.
chronically late persons
children crying ,whining , talking during sermon

 

What is offensive to me is a dead church. A church where there is no energy, no life, no response of enthusiasm to the worship of God. I want to see people who sing with energy to God and a response from others to that song of worship to God that appreciates and takes great joy in what has happened. There are times we should be in quiet preparation and other times when we should be expressive of the emotions God has given us to use to worship Him.

I want to see preaching by someone who is passionate about God's word with all the emotion that is swirling around in him because of God, our salvation, freedom and victory in Christ. I also want to see an emotional response from those who are receiving that word of God. Emotions brought about because of the goodness, the greatness, the power and majesty of God.

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And there is nothing wrong with that. There is no difference between people being stirred up by singing God's praises done well or preaching God's word done well. Both should be done grounded in scripture or not at all.

 

Even the announcements? Look, there are things in the service that includes taking care of day to day things. Saying that those are somehow an imposition on true worship is just not provable. What may distract you may not be an issue for any number of other people. I think we need to be careful not to assign motives on people based on what we like or dislike personally.

Just because someone does not like they way people respond to some kinds of singing in the church does not prove that those people engaged in that type of singing that the one person does not like are not truly worshiping God nor can they. We need to be very careful of assigning motives in that fashion.

 

Sorry brother you are assigning motives that cannot be proven. Further, there are other possibilities as to their motives. Those actions do not prove only one kind of motive and can in fact be born out of a true desire to glorify God. I'm sorry but your accusations of those types of people are not reasonable but instead they are based on personal preference.

Psa_150:4 Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe!

 

1) Those fancy wrist watches that go off at noon and folks wearing them don't have the good sense to:

• Leave them at home in the first place or
• Turn off the alarm before church or
• Stop the alarm once it goes off

2) Same thing with cell phones. A lady's phone rang twice one Sunday morning, once during the choir special and once during the sermon. Afterwards I asked her if she couldn't hear it ringing. She said, "No I heard it. But, it was my sister and I told her I don't answer the phone during church."

3) Hearing aids that die and whistle through the service Biggrin

 

There are a number of reasons for the "outsourcing of leadership. It certainly was part of the early history of the American church when the many rural churches used circuit preachers. Often young men grow up and recognize the call of God but so often that call ends up going to another church. Maybe they are right, maybe they aren't.

 

Sometimes a prophet gets no honor from home.

 

wicked old me, I guess, I do NOT go to church to "worship". I go preaching services.

The singing, the praying, the preaching all proclaim Christ (or should.) Let me get one whiff some song leader decided last week what emotion he wanted me to feel and I am out of there.

Now, very often God does break in and I can get quite emotional.

But that is very different from some cheerleader amping it up.

 

Singing (acapella)... I'm the song leader, praying and preaching... We are a small congregation and this is our mode and practice of worship... It all about Jesus Christ as all worship should be... Brother Glen