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Why are we so annoyed when they don't get the truth ?
carol70:
Great thread!
--- Quote from: mrsnacks on June 18, 2007, 03:11:21 PM ---Good point. I recall the pastor saying to the congregation - how can anyone just sit there and not be excited about praising the Lord.Let us a give the Lord a huge hand clap. The whole church went bananas and I just sat there. He was obviously talking about me indirectly. Just because I don't dance and shout and say a bunch of amens I am not into it. I was worshipping the Lord in silence.
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I used to sit in church silently too. I always felt odd when everyone else around me was shouting. I mean, why were they shouting? I will admit, one day last week I was overcome by emotion while talking to God and sitting in my car, but honestly, I think I was having a mini-breakdown at the time. ;)
As for the youth group singing and feeling the presence of God in church, sometimes I have heard a voice so beautiful that I get shivers and hearing a voice like that, it feels like a gift from God. Maybe that's what they felt.
mrsnacks:
When Jesus taught and preached, can you really picture a bunch of believers jumping up and down and saying amen ? Dancing in the streets and hollering "Come on Teacher" and raising their hands . It is not that I am condemning that behavior or outburst but it just seems out of place. Like a sports rally. Why isn't there one Jesus film that shows that pentecostal emotional display ? This is Jesus talking and not some pastor out of Bible school. And then what gets me is you hear the speaking in tongues with no interpretation. Like the preacher will say a few phrases in tongues out of emotion and I am sitting here going - what the heck was that ? What did he mean by that ? :o
skydreamers:
--- Quote ---And then what gets me is you hear the speaking in tongues with no interpretation. Like the preacher will say a few phrases in tongues out of emotion and I am sitting here going - what the heck was that ? What did he mean by that ?
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Totally! I saw some videos a while back of Kenneth Copeland and some other "famous" preacher, and they were supposedly overcome with "holy laughter", it was the most hysterical creepy laughter I've ever heard. Then they were barking like dogs on the floor, and of course, blabbering in jibberish. It scared the heebie jeebies out of me! The whole audience was getting into it...and I thought, what would a non-believer think if he stumbled on a scene like that....he'd think these people were stark raving mad!!! How does this edify believers, or glorify God??
Absolutely bizarre displays of the flesh!
Peace,
Diana
Ward:
Here's a thought that automatically comes to my mind on this:
--- Quote ---Maybe the word " annoyed " is too strong of a word but I admit when explaining the truths to someone - I tend to get impatient and desire for them to see what I see because God has revealed it to me.
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Maybe you have been given to have love for your neighbor... You want very much for them to receive the gift that you have been given because you've experienced it yourself. The gift of eyes that see, ears that hear, and a heart to understand. You want very much to give that gift, too. That is Love...
The "annoyance" we feel is probably a mixture of the Love I mentioned with something else, too. But I believe its bases comes from Love. For many of us, it is also God reinforcing within each of us the lesson that only he can drag us to him and open our eyes, ears and heart.
It is Love...
Thoughts? Comments? ???
\/\/ard
dogcombat:
From 1 Corinthians 1 Paul writes
26 For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called:
27 But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
28 And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
29 That NO flesh should glory in his presence.
The annoyance probably springs from God's discerning spirit that the last verse here about NO flesh glorying in His presence. Much of what goes on is sadly the flesh of people expressing themselves or rather "showing out". Not always, but when you see such mannerisms and cringe. That, to me, is why we get annoyed because of the immaturity that is encouraged in Bablyon.
Ches
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