UGLY AFTER WORSHIP Tale SUBSCRIBE
A TRUE STORY... may it teach as a parable:
Know
how old memories suddenly surface at odd times?
A number of years ago, someone started excitedly thanking God during the worship service's Prayer & Praise time-- he'd lost 10 pounds!
After the service was a fellowship dinner. I overheard a leader of the church laughingly whisper to some people toward the end, "He's going to gain it all back if he keeps eating like that!".... I happened to know that, with physical metabolic issues, he ate almost all of his daily calories at lunch to give his body time to burn them off before bedtime...
This was so many years ago-- Yet that ugliness right after the beauty of Worship got trapped in one of my brain wrinkles.
SO WHAT ??
My Facebook friend Morgan Trotter suggested that we might want to read
'Loving God When You Don't Love the Church:
Opening the Door to Healing' by Chris Jackson.
IS IT NOT HORRIFICALLY SAD that so many books like this are being written....
in the Truth of Ephesians 4:15 and First John 3:18?
If our words so horribly wound people within
our own church,
HOW can we draw people to see
the need for Jesus as Savior, to escape Hell forever?
What does LORD God say ??
....... We can say and sing all the words of love that we want in church service...
but God calls to us, DEMANDS of us, "love one another fervently with a pure heart."
First Peter 1:22.
See how great a forest a little fire kindles! 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity.
The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body,
and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell....
9 With it we bless our God and Father,
and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God.
10 Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing.
My brethren, these things ought not to be so!"
___________________________________________________________________A number of years ago, someone started excitedly thanking God during the worship service's Prayer & Praise time-- he'd lost 10 pounds!
After the service was a fellowship dinner. I overheard a leader of the church laughingly whisper to some people toward the end, "He's going to gain it all back if he keeps eating like that!".... I happened to know that, with physical metabolic issues, he ate almost all of his daily calories at lunch to give his body time to burn them off before bedtime...
This was so many years ago-- Yet that ugliness right after the beauty of Worship got trapped in one of my brain wrinkles.
SO WHAT ??
My Facebook friend Morgan Trotter suggested that we might want to read
'Loving God When You Don't Love the Church:
Opening the Door to Healing' by Chris Jackson.
IS IT NOT HORRIFICALLY SAD that so many books like this are being written....
in the Truth of Ephesians 4:15 and First John 3:18?
If our words so horribly wound people within
our own church,
HOW can we draw people to see
the need for Jesus as Savior, to escape Hell forever?
What does LORD God say ??
....... We can say and sing all the words of love that we want in church service...
but God calls to us, DEMANDS of us, "love one another fervently with a pure heart."
First Peter 1:22.
JAMES 3 -- remembering it is GOD who inspired this (see also 2nd Timothy 3:16) -
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See how great a forest a little fire kindles! 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity.
The tongue is so set among our members that it defiles the whole body,
and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell....
9 With it we bless our God and Father,
and with it we curse men, who have been made in the similitude of God.
10 Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing.
My brethren, these things ought not to be so!"
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