Emotions seem to stir from time to time, and i think this may be the inevitable death of christs church. or atleast what appears to be his church. see it has become very evident that what the church does is we run off of emotions, we go from service to service feeling emotion towards the sermon, but never really connecting with christ.
and this is a huge problem because we lose focus. no. we dont have focus. we have emotions that keep us going just long enough to make life seem okay, to make us feel like we are doing good, everything is running smooth right? and so we continue living and accepting this system of life, and all the while we are sinking quickly. we are falling fast.
we are a brood bunch of people. always ripping eachohter apart. always back biting, and yelling, and gossiping, all the while the church seems to prosper because emotions overflow in the cup that christ has appointed us to carry. except when the cup overflows with emotion, it is actually empty. and this is going to prove to be a problem for the church. especially our church, our american safety net. we have our wealth, and our happiness, and our beloved desires, our star athlete children, our beautiful lawns, all of our beautiful possesions, our beautiful men, our beautiful women, our big houses, our fat bank accounts, our health, and our emotional connection to the Lord.
i really wonder when we will understand that un-understandable parable...the one about the camel going through the eye of needle, being so much surprisingly easier than rich people to enter the kingdom of heaven. my ideas aren't really shared, people often say i hate the american church. i do. ha. and all it stands for as well. because that isn't much. im not jaded, im not hurt, i am burdened for the people of God, who subsequently are actually people of their desires, and posessions. i guess you could say im jaded towards people who consistantly, and constantly choose creation over the creator.
heres to america. God bless our possesions.
lates
Young Leadership
13 years ago
1 comment:
Let me first start by saying that you are absolutely right, and also slightly wrong (bear with me, because you're mostly right). See, emotions don't need to be the end of Christ's church, when coupled with fundamental theology, emotion is an ally. When the body of Christ seeks an emotional high over Biblical Truth, we have a huge problem on our hands. I think, however that God created emotion as part of us, we are dynamic. We were created in God's image, thus God is, well, emotional. Controlled and Holy, yes, but still - emotional; He FEELS.
I agree that emotions can be the death of us, so many times (especially at LU) people base their Christianity solely on emotion and then when questioned about their beliefs, they stutter and say "I feel Him." That's not good enough.
I have lived on both ends of the spectrum: years of emotional Jesus time and years of logical and fundamental theology (in those years, emotion was that evil thing that kept me from knowing who God was). Let me just say that it's a balance. The spirit MOVES in us, and I believe that that can be emotion... we just can't run on solely emotion...
Wow that was insanely long - Sorry.
- Raph
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