stevevw
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The early church may not have used musical instruments because they didn't want to attract attention but that was the early church. This is now and in most countries you can practice your religion without persecution. In fact in some ways you may want to attract attention now. I know and especially for the young they cant stand being preached to and dont get it. But if they hear a beautiful song and music and the words are speaking to them they can hear the message of God.
Its called communication and it comes in the form of words, written form and body language. Music has been proven to be a good form of communication. It maybe the word of God but a person has to hear it and take it in. Sometimes people switch off when someone is reciting something as they are just going through the motions. The holy spirit doesn't have a particular way we should preach or get the message of Christ to others. It will happen as long as there are people gathered in the name of Jesus together. As Christ has said where there are two or more gathered in my name i will be amongst them.
I can appreciate if the music is to loud that it can drown out the message and thats the same for anything. If you can't hear it or keep being distracted then its going to make it harder. But lets no start to be placing all this criteria on it as to what is the right and wrong way to go about fellowship in the name of God. There must be 100 versions of how we should come to god and all in their own way are saying whether verbally or just in their practice of certain things that they are doing it more correct than the others. To be honest if anyone has Jesus in his heart and allows the holy spirit to be guiding their lives then to me they are with Jesus and not against him. We cant start saying that this church is wrong and that one is doing it more to how it should be. If this was the case then many true believers from different churches will be condemned. There will be false prophets but you will tell by the message they preach according to the truth of God and the fruits they bear.
I Know of a catholic priest who is living as Jesus says and you can truly see that. I also know of Salvation army people who are helping people on the streets and putting into practice the words of Christ and not just talking about them. There are also so many churches where they just do the same thing every week and people go on Sunday and they do their little bit and thats really it. They are good people but have their lives where they pay their mortgage and bills and have their careers and go about their day to day lives. They may feel they are doing the right thing and maybe they are but sometimes it just seems they never go beyond that.
To me it is also about letting go of this world more and more and helping others as you would want to be helped yourself. This means that instead of getting the big expensive house and making this world your empire you are giving more to others. At the end of the day when its all said and done you cant take it with you. Sure if you are good at something you should develop that but nearly everything we do can be done to help others and place more importance on saving souls than saving money. We do need funds to help others and its good to create a situation where you can have the money to help and make a difference.
But you have to put God first and he says that he will take care of things and it will work out. It will work out better than any other way you can possible do it. Its when you start to place the importance of the commodity you have with the church and want to make it the most important thing. You begin to justify that this is OK and before you know it you are surrounding yourself with worldly things in the name of God. I look at the catholic church and all their wealth. I think if they truly want to get back to saving souls they would sell most of it off and trust in God and use it to start a revolution movement that would certainly be something that would change the world and show Christ in action.
Its called communication and it comes in the form of words, written form and body language. Music has been proven to be a good form of communication. It maybe the word of God but a person has to hear it and take it in. Sometimes people switch off when someone is reciting something as they are just going through the motions. The holy spirit doesn't have a particular way we should preach or get the message of Christ to others. It will happen as long as there are people gathered in the name of Jesus together. As Christ has said where there are two or more gathered in my name i will be amongst them.
I can appreciate if the music is to loud that it can drown out the message and thats the same for anything. If you can't hear it or keep being distracted then its going to make it harder. But lets no start to be placing all this criteria on it as to what is the right and wrong way to go about fellowship in the name of God. There must be 100 versions of how we should come to god and all in their own way are saying whether verbally or just in their practice of certain things that they are doing it more correct than the others. To be honest if anyone has Jesus in his heart and allows the holy spirit to be guiding their lives then to me they are with Jesus and not against him. We cant start saying that this church is wrong and that one is doing it more to how it should be. If this was the case then many true believers from different churches will be condemned. There will be false prophets but you will tell by the message they preach according to the truth of God and the fruits they bear.
I Know of a catholic priest who is living as Jesus says and you can truly see that. I also know of Salvation army people who are helping people on the streets and putting into practice the words of Christ and not just talking about them. There are also so many churches where they just do the same thing every week and people go on Sunday and they do their little bit and thats really it. They are good people but have their lives where they pay their mortgage and bills and have their careers and go about their day to day lives. They may feel they are doing the right thing and maybe they are but sometimes it just seems they never go beyond that.
To me it is also about letting go of this world more and more and helping others as you would want to be helped yourself. This means that instead of getting the big expensive house and making this world your empire you are giving more to others. At the end of the day when its all said and done you cant take it with you. Sure if you are good at something you should develop that but nearly everything we do can be done to help others and place more importance on saving souls than saving money. We do need funds to help others and its good to create a situation where you can have the money to help and make a difference.
But you have to put God first and he says that he will take care of things and it will work out. It will work out better than any other way you can possible do it. Its when you start to place the importance of the commodity you have with the church and want to make it the most important thing. You begin to justify that this is OK and before you know it you are surrounding yourself with worldly things in the name of God. I look at the catholic church and all their wealth. I think if they truly want to get back to saving souls they would sell most of it off and trust in God and use it to start a revolution movement that would certainly be something that would change the world and show Christ in action.
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