Are You Barren? - User Opinions
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Are you Barren
God's timeing. I truly was edified by your letter.
I am on staff at a "traditional" church but have such a passion for the arts to be developed in worship. After developing some drama's and liturgical candle movement my husband critized me. I was truly crushed. It is not his style of worship, and I pray God does not make him "barren". I love to dance in worhsip. I sing songs at home and fall on my face, and jump in the air. I feel connected with God when I not only worship in song but worship with every part of my body. I do struggle that this is a personnel thing, and I am not sure how others would be blessed.I pray for wisdom and direction. When people see the peson heart, and their face reflecting GOD"S Glory, I beleive hearts are touched by the presence of God.
Thanks for your article.
It's a keeper for my file
Submitted by: Cindy
Location: Orland Park, IL
Date Added: 2005-01-05
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Out-"Strategize" God?
Re: "Seekers" being scared off by true worhippers?
I was involved in a very charismatic church. Before long, a 'lost' friend came. Their life was falling apart around them.
Standing next to them during the worship service, I found myself being afraid to worship in my normal manner...lifting hands...singing joyfully...
Just then I sensed the Lord telling me that if I were ashamed of Him now...(you know the verse).
So I relaxed and worshipped the Lord as if my friend were not standing right there beside me watching and listening to everything that came out of my mouth.
Right after the service this friend went for prayer and was born again into the family of God.
Their greeting to me, as they came out of the prayer area, was, "All I knew was, when I heard you singing and worshipping, I wanted whatever it was you had!!".
This was a "Seeker".
It's God who does the drawing unto Himself.
Submitted by: Ann E
Location: Portland, Or.
Date Added: 2005-01-04
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Praise ye the Lord
I feel that God desires for us to use everything to worship him with. Man is caught up on what people think, but God desires to abide in the true praises of his people. We should praise God with songs, dance, shouts, waves of hands etc. As long as it is in honoring God it is appropriate. I want Christians to be able to distinguish between true praise and emotional dance because there is a difference. Music should not be indicative of the only time to praise. I feel that we should all praise God with everything that we are, and give him our TOTAL PRAISE.
Submitted by: Sharon Daniels
Location: Tifton GA
Date Added: 2004-12-31
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Charismatic is not the issue
Seeker services belong to Christendom and modernity. They assume that people come to faith primarily by considering the claims of Christianity in a non-threatening environment and making a rational decision about the truth of those claims.
In a post-modern, post-Christian age, how do people come to faith? I believe that the answer may lie in the past. In pre-Christian Rome seekers and believers worshiped side by side. It was in experiencing the living God as his people worshiped that seekers came to faith. I believe that we again live in a pre-Christian world. Modernity sought truth; post-modernity seeks experience. Seekers will be more impressed by worshipers who are obviously moved by the presence of God than by any new and exciting packaging of gospel truth. This is why Christianity in it's charismatic/pentecostal form is spreading so rapidly in the emerging world. People respond to the power and mystery of God as they experience God in worship.
Submitted by: John Pfeil
Location: Lancaster, PA
Date Added: 2002-11-19
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Seeker Service
I am going through the same struggles that this article speaks of. How should we worship? I am helping to start a new church and this has been discussed quite a bit. In this article there is one comment that I don't completely agree with: "...where I can worship Him how I want and not care about what others think." In starting a new church we have to be very aware of how others perceive us. Our Church's goal is not to convert Christians to our particular Church, we are trying to make non-believers comfortable so that they have time to learn about Jesus and eventually will accept him as Savior. In my opinion Charismatics make it more difficult to bring non-believers to Church. Some people are afaid to go to Church just because they are worried that the Church may be Charismatic. I know there is not anything scripturally wrong with worshiping in a "Charismatic" way, but this may be one case where I think we must stay aware of what non-christians think.
Submitted by: Ron Bronson
Location: Lees Summit, MO
Date Added: 2002-11-19
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