What's Your Opinion?
Since I was a young child I have loved going to church. I was never forced to go and I never complained about going. Church was a fun place to worship God and learn more about Him. It was exciting and I enjoyed every minute of it.
I grew up in The Salvation Army church in my home community, an evangelical church. The church was very alive and still is today. People within my church fostered my spiritual growth and they were very encouraging when it came to the youth. The church allowed the Spirit to move, they were open to change, they spoke from the bottom of their heart expressing the joys of serving God within the services and they prayed not from a book but used their own words. There was nothing boring about going to church. God was very much alive in those services.
Yesterday I went to church like I always do on Sundays. I think if I was a child I would have complained about going yesterday. The church is definitely not what I am used to but I go because I know that as a Christian I should be in fellowship with others and secondly, if God needs to use me within the church how is He going to use me when I am not there.
Anyway, within the church they have liturgies. (Please note: I am not saying that there is anything wrong with liturgies). Yesterday, as they were doing the five page liturgy with prayers for the sick, prayers for forgiveness, and other prayers which I cannot recall at the moment, I had a hard time to sit there and participate. I kept thinking no wonder not a lot of people are here, they don't see the joy of serving God! I found myself having my own prayer time, praying my own prayers, and praying for the North Coast. The liturgy was monotone and it seemed that we were just reading it for the sake of reading it. It was like there was no joy in praying to Jesus and I consider praying to Jesus one of the most joyful things to do! With that being said, I am sure the people in the church know how important the words of the liturgy are.
So now I ask you your opinion. . . what is your opinion about reading prayers from a book?
I should also note that contrary to the liturgy... the sermon was really good yesterday. He talked about prayer and how we should be praying everyday not just on Sundays and prayer should be a continuous thing. We should be continuously conversing with God on our own. I hope God will use that sermon to speak to the hearts of many who were present.
Have a great day with many blessings!
Since I was a young child I have loved going to church. I was never forced to go and I never complained about going. Church was a fun place to worship God and learn more about Him. It was exciting and I enjoyed every minute of it.
I grew up in The Salvation Army church in my home community, an evangelical church. The church was very alive and still is today. People within my church fostered my spiritual growth and they were very encouraging when it came to the youth. The church allowed the Spirit to move, they were open to change, they spoke from the bottom of their heart expressing the joys of serving God within the services and they prayed not from a book but used their own words. There was nothing boring about going to church. God was very much alive in those services.
Yesterday I went to church like I always do on Sundays. I think if I was a child I would have complained about going yesterday. The church is definitely not what I am used to but I go because I know that as a Christian I should be in fellowship with others and secondly, if God needs to use me within the church how is He going to use me when I am not there.
Anyway, within the church they have liturgies. (Please note: I am not saying that there is anything wrong with liturgies). Yesterday, as they were doing the five page liturgy with prayers for the sick, prayers for forgiveness, and other prayers which I cannot recall at the moment, I had a hard time to sit there and participate. I kept thinking no wonder not a lot of people are here, they don't see the joy of serving God! I found myself having my own prayer time, praying my own prayers, and praying for the North Coast. The liturgy was monotone and it seemed that we were just reading it for the sake of reading it. It was like there was no joy in praying to Jesus and I consider praying to Jesus one of the most joyful things to do! With that being said, I am sure the people in the church know how important the words of the liturgy are.
So now I ask you your opinion. . . what is your opinion about reading prayers from a book?
I should also note that contrary to the liturgy... the sermon was really good yesterday. He talked about prayer and how we should be praying everyday not just on Sundays and prayer should be a continuous thing. We should be continuously conversing with God on our own. I hope God will use that sermon to speak to the hearts of many who were present.
Have a great day with many blessings!
posted by Rebecca @ 6:14 AM
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