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  • Focus On Worship

    • Posted Jul 17, 2006 9:24 AM

      Chris,

      CHRISTIAN MATURITY

      Paul said, "Everything is lawful, but not everything is profitable" (Paraphrase mine). He also said not to do things if it causes problems for the less mature.

      Funny thing about maturity, some of the most mature in age are the least mature spiritually.

      But that's our jobs as christians! Paul writes to Timothy and tells him to stand up against wrong teaching and then turns around and tells him to treat the older man with the respect that you would give your dad and the younger man like he is your brother. While I disagree with many of the "laws" touted as correct here on this site, I agree with Mr. Cruz's assertion that things that cause division aught not be implemented.

      But off that soapbox....

      MY POINT

      You stated, "If it makes me uncomfortable and disturbs my worship, perhaps I need to FOCUS on my worship and not my fellow worshippers hand and arm position.." While I agree that I always should strive for deeper worship, what goes on around me affects my worship. God would not have called us to come together and worship if there were not a relationship between self, others, and God in the worship experience. We need God, but we also need one another.

      Example... The Lord's Supper

      We have tried to make the Lord's Supper such a personnal experience that we have often missed out on the comming togetherness that occurs. Yes, the Lord's Supper is a memorial to Christ's Death and Ressurection, but it is also a shared meal, a celebration where christians come together for this memorial.

      Don't get me wrong, the corporate worship is not some social club. That is what Paul gripes about when he says, "Don't you have home's to eat in?" That congregation had turned what was supposed to be worship into a social event.

      We draw closer to one another when we draw closer to God. Break any one of those lines and the whole equation falls apart.

      In Christ,

      Mark F.


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