Doing Church.
Attending “church”, Sunday-go-programmed-meetings, sermon-listening, sermon preaching, song-singing, hand-clapping, shouting praises and all the other activities that "Christians" are expected to perform, is attributed as being spiritual yet, is so little like what Christ did Himself while on earth to show us what a spiritual relationship is about. Are we completely off base as to what a genuine spiritual relationship really is.
This is not a rejection of gathering in buildings or expressions of what is called worship, but an indictment as to how few relationships with God and with people are developed in the process of event-driven-meetings and the programmed worship time. The gathering is more under a denominational banner rather that in the simplicity of meeting in the name of Jesus. Some "church” people are some of loneliest, saddest, most depressed dysfunctional people in society.
What is it about the way we do church that produces those results in the lives of many believers, including pastors?
This is not a rejection of gathering in buildings or expressions of what is called worship, but an indictment as to how few relationships with God and with people are developed in the process of event-driven-meetings and the programmed worship time. The gathering is more under a denominational banner rather that in the simplicity of meeting in the name of Jesus. Some "church” people are some of loneliest, saddest, most depressed dysfunctional people in society.
What is it about the way we do church that produces those results in the lives of many believers, including pastors?
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