Hello all,
I don't go to church at the moment and I wanted to share my reasons why. Maybe someone out there has some helpful feedback that they can give me on their perspective on things.
1. I often find Pastors yelling at the top of the voices trying to tell me a message. I dislike being yelled at.
2. People speaking in tongues! This one is bound to step on someones toes! I don't agree with any one who thinks that you can speak in a unknown tongue "without interpretation". If there is a interpretation it doesn't necessarily mean that it is coming from God so "you need some tools to test it"! I also don't believe that tongues is gibberish! It is a known human language like Russian, or German or anything like. God would not give someone a gift of speaking in gibberish. Bible Gateway passage: 1 Corinthians 14:33 - King James Version
3. Emotionalism! I have difficulty sitting in churches that seem to use emotionalism as a tool to bring me into submission. I will only submit to God and I don't submit to a Church or a person i.e Pastor! There will be some of you who say that we come under a covering from the Church! That is something I don't agree with either. All I need is the blood of Christ to cover me! i don't need no Pastor, or so called Prophets! Please don't read that statement out of context! Am talking about Pastors and Prophets that are not really following the teachings of Christ but using the word of god to make a profit. I also have problems with the church using commercialism and the idea of promoting 'beauty' in a way to attract people to a product. Just like advertisements do!
4. Music! This is a tough one for me! Music is either too ... Hillsong or too .. Traditional and has Hymns that I just can't get into. Most the time the best worship for me is what you might call scripture song. I like worship that concentrates on using scripture in a way to praise God. i.e stuff like this Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs - ALL FREE - Scripture Songs - Bible Songs - Christian MP3 Music
5. Pop Psychology! I don't like going to church to hear a motivational sermon, or to hear about some psychological wisdom. I go to church to hear Gods word. If I wanted to hear Pop Psychology I would listen to a motivational speaker. I think there is a place for everything. But I don't agree that Pop psychology is something that should be mixed with the word of God. I also felt that occasionally that the church was using psychology against me in order to control me in some fashion.
6. The Honey moon period. I have been to many churches and one thing that you notice after a while something I call the Honey mood period. Your new to the church so people are friendly they come over say hello, pretend to be your best friend! Say that they will invite you over for a BBQ or something like that. It never happens! After being in a Church for more than 3 months your just another piece of furniture! Yes people will say hello but that's it! No one seems interesting in friendship, in doing things outside of the church, and if you are invited out is usually for a coffee or something like that. I realize that people are just people even in your a Christian. We all have busy lives! Some have families so they need to make priorities about what needs to be done first. Your family or your personal problems are going to come first before any new christian to the church
7. Mental health is a demonic issue. Now first of all I would like to say that I do believe that demons can influence us however NOT EVERY THING IS DEMONIC! Just because you have been diagnosed with a mental health issue that does not mean that you have some kind of demon. I have many close family members who have mental health issues ranging from, schizophrenia, to bipolar. There are many, many reasons why you may have a mental health issue i.e. Environmental factors ,some have made claims that vaccines are linked to autism for example.
8. The power of prayer. This is one that many of you will disagree with me on! I don't believe in miracles. In the church! I believe that if God were to heal someone he would heal them in private , in their personal time with him. Not in a church! P.s my definition of a miracle is for someone to be cured from a health issue that could not be cured by the power of suggestion!
9. Sermons. I can't stand it when a pastor quotes one verse and talks, talks and talks. The more he talks the more he isn't talking about biblical theology. I think that sermons should be filled with more biblical references. The rule should be reading the bible IN CONTEXT! This means that you read the bible chapter and verse by verse. You don't skip from one book of the bible. I bugs me big time when a pastor reads one bible verse out of context and joins it with a other book of the bible to match his ideology!
I don't go to church at the moment and I wanted to share my reasons why. Maybe someone out there has some helpful feedback that they can give me on their perspective on things.
1. I often find Pastors yelling at the top of the voices trying to tell me a message. I dislike being yelled at.
2. People speaking in tongues! This one is bound to step on someones toes! I don't agree with any one who thinks that you can speak in a unknown tongue "without interpretation". If there is a interpretation it doesn't necessarily mean that it is coming from God so "you need some tools to test it"! I also don't believe that tongues is gibberish! It is a known human language like Russian, or German or anything like. God would not give someone a gift of speaking in gibberish. Bible Gateway passage: 1 Corinthians 14:33 - King James Version
3. Emotionalism! I have difficulty sitting in churches that seem to use emotionalism as a tool to bring me into submission. I will only submit to God and I don't submit to a Church or a person i.e Pastor! There will be some of you who say that we come under a covering from the Church! That is something I don't agree with either. All I need is the blood of Christ to cover me! i don't need no Pastor, or so called Prophets! Please don't read that statement out of context! Am talking about Pastors and Prophets that are not really following the teachings of Christ but using the word of god to make a profit. I also have problems with the church using commercialism and the idea of promoting 'beauty' in a way to attract people to a product. Just like advertisements do!
4. Music! This is a tough one for me! Music is either too ... Hillsong or too .. Traditional and has Hymns that I just can't get into. Most the time the best worship for me is what you might call scripture song. I like worship that concentrates on using scripture in a way to praise God. i.e stuff like this Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs - ALL FREE - Scripture Songs - Bible Songs - Christian MP3 Music
5. Pop Psychology! I don't like going to church to hear a motivational sermon, or to hear about some psychological wisdom. I go to church to hear Gods word. If I wanted to hear Pop Psychology I would listen to a motivational speaker. I think there is a place for everything. But I don't agree that Pop psychology is something that should be mixed with the word of God. I also felt that occasionally that the church was using psychology against me in order to control me in some fashion.
6. The Honey moon period. I have been to many churches and one thing that you notice after a while something I call the Honey mood period. Your new to the church so people are friendly they come over say hello, pretend to be your best friend! Say that they will invite you over for a BBQ or something like that. It never happens! After being in a Church for more than 3 months your just another piece of furniture! Yes people will say hello but that's it! No one seems interesting in friendship, in doing things outside of the church, and if you are invited out is usually for a coffee or something like that. I realize that people are just people even in your a Christian. We all have busy lives! Some have families so they need to make priorities about what needs to be done first. Your family or your personal problems are going to come first before any new christian to the church
7. Mental health is a demonic issue. Now first of all I would like to say that I do believe that demons can influence us however NOT EVERY THING IS DEMONIC! Just because you have been diagnosed with a mental health issue that does not mean that you have some kind of demon. I have many close family members who have mental health issues ranging from, schizophrenia, to bipolar. There are many, many reasons why you may have a mental health issue i.e. Environmental factors ,some have made claims that vaccines are linked to autism for example.
8. The power of prayer. This is one that many of you will disagree with me on! I don't believe in miracles. In the church! I believe that if God were to heal someone he would heal them in private , in their personal time with him. Not in a church! P.s my definition of a miracle is for someone to be cured from a health issue that could not be cured by the power of suggestion!
9. Sermons. I can't stand it when a pastor quotes one verse and talks, talks and talks. The more he talks the more he isn't talking about biblical theology. I think that sermons should be filled with more biblical references. The rule should be reading the bible IN CONTEXT! This means that you read the bible chapter and verse by verse. You don't skip from one book of the bible. I bugs me big time when a pastor reads one bible verse out of context and joins it with a other book of the bible to match his ideology!
