Thursday, November 25, 2010
Listen and understand.....Message by Paul Washer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuabITeO4l8&feature=player_embedded#!
Preaching rooted on the Word.....such as we rarely hear anymore. Get your Bible out, listen to this man, search the Scriptures, and let the Holy Spirit convict and minister to you.
Preaching rooted on the Word.....such as we rarely hear anymore. Get your Bible out, listen to this man, search the Scriptures, and let the Holy Spirit convict and minister to you.
Sunday, November 7, 2010
So, we've now made the switch. After nearly a year of disquiet in our spirits and earnestly seeking God to know what to do, we have left the church we were attending for over 2 years and started visiting another one, on the recommendation of some dear friends in Christ. We've been going the last 3 weeks and what a breath of fresh air it's been!
But I really wanted to say something about church this morning. This morning, while singing together, we saw that the music team included an old ammachi who stood and sang holding herself up with a crutch, we had a group of appachens and ammachis who stood and sang a wonderful hymn, we were deeply moved to see so many appachens and ammachis worship God from the heart - the Word warns us about giving honour to the elderly - this was truly biblical when so many churches today are unbiblically skewed towards 'youth' - possibly a result of the results-driven, business-inspired church growth model. Those who live in Asia or Africa, and read this may rightly have a puzzled expression on your faces, and wonder why this is such a big deal. Well, in the West it is. Western society treats the elderly with contempt and appears to tolerate them as necessary evils but otherwise treat their old fathers and mothers as non-entities whose time has passed and who should remain quiet while they wait to die. As weird as it seems, this attitude appears to prevail in the church as well. So, it was truly refreshing to see a church where there are so many elderly people, along with lots of young families.
We saw a body of believers that exalted Christ, gave primacy to God's Word and its teaching and to rightly dividing the Word and we liked it. We rejoiced to see it.
But I really wanted to say something about church this morning. This morning, while singing together, we saw that the music team included an old ammachi who stood and sang holding herself up with a crutch, we had a group of appachens and ammachis who stood and sang a wonderful hymn, we were deeply moved to see so many appachens and ammachis worship God from the heart - the Word warns us about giving honour to the elderly - this was truly biblical when so many churches today are unbiblically skewed towards 'youth' - possibly a result of the results-driven, business-inspired church growth model. Those who live in Asia or Africa, and read this may rightly have a puzzled expression on your faces, and wonder why this is such a big deal. Well, in the West it is. Western society treats the elderly with contempt and appears to tolerate them as necessary evils but otherwise treat their old fathers and mothers as non-entities whose time has passed and who should remain quiet while they wait to die. As weird as it seems, this attitude appears to prevail in the church as well. So, it was truly refreshing to see a church where there are so many elderly people, along with lots of young families.
We saw a body of believers that exalted Christ, gave primacy to God's Word and its teaching and to rightly dividing the Word and we liked it. We rejoiced to see it.
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