Jan 2009
Are You Playing?
22/01/09 17:34
There will be new articles and audio messages posted soon!!
Every week, people make the pilgrimage to the location where whatever organization they worship with on the Sabbath meet, and make their appearance. They faithfully occupy the same seats and sing the same songs. They pride themselves on their punctuality and attendance record. They sit and listen to a sermon that they may, or may not pay any attention to and take notes that they will never bother to read, or go over when they return home. In fact, their bibles see very little action other than the times that they are liberated at services on the Sabbath.
They make the same small talk with the same people. After services, they go out for a meal to enjoy their “blessings”. Later, their obligation met for the week, they return to their homes feeling very satisfied with themselves and occupy their time with whatever they do to fill out the rest of the Sabbath. As the sun sets on another Sabbath day, they quickly return to their normal routines and lives.
The description above sounds very cynical, yet that is exactly the scenario that is played out week after week by many who claim to be God’s people. They are uninspired, unmotivated and uninterested. They have lost the fire and the zeal and the first love that they once possessed for God’s word. They are in a routine and a rut and go through the same motions every week. They are playing church!
Being a Christian involves so much more than just the outward appearance and profession of faith in Christ. Our Christian lives require active, engaged participation. When people are gathered in God’s name for worship it should be a caring and sharing community of spirit filled and spirit led believers! Are we not told to have love for one another?
John 13:34-35
34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. 35 By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Are we not told to pray for one another?
James 5:16
16 Confess your trespasses to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.
God intended for us to be concerned and loving and to care for one another, to exhort and encourage one another and to comfort and grieve with one another. Being a Christian involves a lifestyle...an active and involved lifestyle. We are to be known by our fruits and God gives each one of us spiritual gifts that He expects us to use and exercise within the body of Christ. Are you playing Church?
Until next time...
Every week, people make the pilgrimage to the location where whatever organization they worship with on the Sabbath meet, and make their appearance. They faithfully occupy the same seats and sing the same songs. They pride themselves on their punctuality and attendance record. They sit and listen to a sermon that they may, or may not pay any attention to and take notes that they will never bother to read, or go over when they return home. In fact, their bibles see very little action other than the times that they are liberated at services on the Sabbath.
They make the same small talk with the same people. After services, they go out for a meal to enjoy their “blessings”. Later, their obligation met for the week, they return to their homes feeling very satisfied with themselves and occupy their time with whatever they do to fill out the rest of the Sabbath. As the sun sets on another Sabbath day, they quickly return to their normal routines and lives.
The description above sounds very cynical, yet that is exactly the scenario that is played out week after week by many who claim to be God’s people. They are uninspired, unmotivated and uninterested. They have lost the fire and the zeal and the first love that they once possessed for God’s word. They are in a routine and a rut and go through the same motions every week. They are playing church!
Being a Christian involves so much more than just the outward appearance and profession of faith in Christ. Our Christian lives require active, engaged participation. When people are gathered in God’s name for worship it should be a caring and sharing community of spirit filled and spirit led believers! Are we not told to have love for one another?
John 13:34-35
34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; as I have loved you, that you also love one another. 35 By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Are we not told to pray for one another?
James 5:16
16 Confess your trespasses to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.
God intended for us to be concerned and loving and to care for one another, to exhort and encourage one another and to comfort and grieve with one another. Being a Christian involves a lifestyle...an active and involved lifestyle. We are to be known by our fruits and God gives each one of us spiritual gifts that He expects us to use and exercise within the body of Christ. Are you playing Church?
Until next time...
Come Out Of Her My People...
05/01/09 11:37
New Article Posted!!! “Show Your Love”
Throughout the various groups, organizations and denominations that make up mainstream Christianity, there is an ever increasing trend towards a “spirit” of cooperation. By putting aside their differences and extending the hand of friendship, they hope to find common ground and learn from one another. In the process, without fully realizing it, they are also losing their identity.
They are becoming an amalgamation of all of their beliefs, instead of maintaining doctrinal purity. They hold communal worship services together and seek to exploit their commonality, instead of their difference in belief and doctrine. Amazingly, there are those from Sabbatarian organizations that are getting swept up in this same movement. Cooperation can be good and it can be beneficial, but not at the expense of your beliefs, or your eternal inheritance.
There are voices in the religious world that are and have been loudly calling for a world worship system. Rome has made no secret of the fact that they would like to see the scattered churches come “home” and back under the jurisdiction of “Mother Rome”. The stage is being set before our very eyes for the world religious system that will exist along with a world political system, shortly before the return of Jesus Christ.
This system will appear to be the solution to all of man’s problems and the way to finally obtain lasting peace for the whole world. In reality, it will end in the greatest cataclysm that this world has ever witnessed culminating in the return of Jesus Christ. Scripture tells us that in those days there will be tribulation on this earth such as has never been seen since creation and that if those days were not shortened, there would be no flesh saved alive (Mark 13:19-20).
That is a very dire warning and we had all better be taking it very seriously! God’s word is the final authority, He tells us how we are to worship Him and He sets the standards that we are to live by. We do not need a conglomeration and amalgamation of man’s beliefs to guide our spiritual lives. Scripture foretells that the majority of mankind will be caught up in this false system, but that the wise will understand. We only become wise through God’s Spirit and by letting God’s Spirit teach us and lead us. God’s Spirit leads us into all truth and there is no other way.
Luke 21:34-36
34 “But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly. 35 For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36 Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.
Until next time...
Throughout the various groups, organizations and denominations that make up mainstream Christianity, there is an ever increasing trend towards a “spirit” of cooperation. By putting aside their differences and extending the hand of friendship, they hope to find common ground and learn from one another. In the process, without fully realizing it, they are also losing their identity.
They are becoming an amalgamation of all of their beliefs, instead of maintaining doctrinal purity. They hold communal worship services together and seek to exploit their commonality, instead of their difference in belief and doctrine. Amazingly, there are those from Sabbatarian organizations that are getting swept up in this same movement. Cooperation can be good and it can be beneficial, but not at the expense of your beliefs, or your eternal inheritance.
There are voices in the religious world that are and have been loudly calling for a world worship system. Rome has made no secret of the fact that they would like to see the scattered churches come “home” and back under the jurisdiction of “Mother Rome”. The stage is being set before our very eyes for the world religious system that will exist along with a world political system, shortly before the return of Jesus Christ.
This system will appear to be the solution to all of man’s problems and the way to finally obtain lasting peace for the whole world. In reality, it will end in the greatest cataclysm that this world has ever witnessed culminating in the return of Jesus Christ. Scripture tells us that in those days there will be tribulation on this earth such as has never been seen since creation and that if those days were not shortened, there would be no flesh saved alive (Mark 13:19-20).
That is a very dire warning and we had all better be taking it very seriously! God’s word is the final authority, He tells us how we are to worship Him and He sets the standards that we are to live by. We do not need a conglomeration and amalgamation of man’s beliefs to guide our spiritual lives. Scripture foretells that the majority of mankind will be caught up in this false system, but that the wise will understand. We only become wise through God’s Spirit and by letting God’s Spirit teach us and lead us. God’s Spirit leads us into all truth and there is no other way.
Luke 21:34-36
34 “But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly. 35 For it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36 Watch therefore, and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.
Until next time...