It's like pulling teeth....!!

[nebula]

HisGirl -

I know how you feel. I've been killed spiritually by "churchianity." It's been hard for me to get back into church. I get the pressure from everyone about "not forsaking the fellowship", but it's not like I've ever gotten a whole lot of fellowship from my churches anyway....

I know this Board is a ministry and not a church, but I've learned more from this Board than I have from church sermons in a long time.

Worship has always been my stimulation, but even worship has been depressing lately. Worship has become too entertainment oriented in the Christian body as a whole ("worship" CD's and concerts), and it's those songs that are being sung. Before it wasn't a big deal, but nowdays the worship leaders are more often than not mimicking their favorite recording of the song rather than just singing and worshiping - you know? It's kind-of killed it for me, too.

So, yeah, I know how you feel.

[Guest HIS girl]

Well as I mentioned earlier , I went along to Church this morning - (my usual little home Church) and the Preacher spoke about the shepherds not feeding the sheep adequately and the sheep leaving in droves.

He read from Ezekiel and spoke about the foundations of the Word of God not being "fed" to the Body and therefore the Body falling apart for lack of sustainance and leaving the 'church' only to be individual wanderers and loners ....and that these lone sheep will not survive because the world will eventually consume them, because they (the wandering sheep) have lack of Spiritual food.

WOW!!

He said the spotlight is on the leaders of the Church to correctly feed the sheep.

Wow....

I am sooo glad I went to Church today.....

[2Joyful]

Well as I mentioned earlier , I went along to Church this morning - (my usual little home Church) and the Preacher spoke about the shepherds not feeding the sheep adequately and the sheep leaving in droves.

He read from Ezekiel and spoke about the foundations of the Word of God not being "fed" to the Body and therefore the Body falling apart for lack of sustainance and leaving the 'church' only to be individual wanderers and loners ....and that these lone sheep will not survive because the world will eventually consume them, because they (the wandering sheep) have lack of Spiritual food.

WOW!!

He said the spotlight is on the leaders of the Church to correctly feed the sheep.

Wow....

I am sooo glad I went to Church today.....

I'm doing a praise dance and a little shouting right now!!!....jot

[Guest HIS girl]

Another thing of interest he said was that our local police got in contact with the Church leaders of our community and asked them if they could participate in a "Church" program for the homeless/down and outs.....

The police officers have supplied the hall, morning tea, music (a police band with - drums, guitars, singers - old hymns) but want the local preachers to roster the sermons and preach....

This is part of the "problem" our preacher said. It's fantastic that the local police are doing this for the community but he said - should the police really HAVE to ask the Church to preach to the homeless??

He said there is something really amiss with the Body.

Anyway - this program is an exciting one nevertheless..

[Guest HIS girl]

'jotful'

I'm doing a praise dance and a little shouting right now!!!....jot

I'm doing it with you jot!!!!