Sunday, 15 June 2008

• Home Church v. My Church

  so, ive been home from college and going to my old home church on sundays with my parents. and when you go away from something for a while and come back, you tend to notice things and catch a different perspective. ive been used to very animated church services for a while and i love getting to see people enveloped in their worship every sunday. at home church, its a different scene. its just routine for most of the people there now. they have been long time members, i know most of them from work or around the neighborhood. and in church they just sing. not loud, not whispers. not smiling, not frowning. the first way to describe it that comes to my mind is asleep. they sleep through their singing, they sleep through the words they worship with, they sleep through the pastors message (sometimes literally). and the words go in and out. unfortunately...it happens to me too. we sang "The Happy Song" today, and theres a part that says "I want to SHOUT IT OUT" and my dad and i SHOUTED it out. cause thats how it escapes my heart. we turned some heads, no big deal. but the lack of shine from the congregation in the songs...EVEN THOUGH IT WAS CONTEMPORARY SERVICE TODAY, WITH THE WORSHIP BAND.... caught up with me, and put me to sleep. the pastor made a futile attempt to liven the people up, but all i thought about was how empty the words felt in the room. and in me. im preachin to the choir here, i know my faults and my fears about the opportunities God gives me, and i am more accountable for them because of how aware i am of them. but in others, i feel that they are just blind...they dont see themselves how i see them, how i see myself. oblivious. unwilling. unmotivated. those words cut deep. and then i go home and watch my church online and feel the fire under me light. it cuts me to the heart to hear myself described as unmotivated. i let my home church atmosphere bring me down to my old ways. so i watch my church to spark myself back to life on sundays.

  and this week they spoke about the DANGEROUS CHURCH. and how we need to become that. and its almost as if they were speaking directly to home church. they spoke about miracles and how God can still use them, and how our prayer for this week should be that God will chose to use his miracles. On tuesday, i agreed to fast and in place of food is prayer. prayer for miracles. so i think my prayer should be for a miracle for home church. the people and the pastor, that their eyes would be open, the pastor would keep speaking truth, and that a fire will be started under them again.

  if you want to know more about the message of my church, go to www.lifechurch.tv, and click watch messages online. its amazing what God can do with a church willing to do anything short of sin to reach others. and be dangerous.

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