Mechanical

I think this can be a danger in the church today that we become so mechanical minded and so emotionally stirred that we do things like robots.  We learn things from the time we were children if we were raised in a Christian home.  Let’s take praying for-instance, we grow up in the church hearing great sounding words from preachers or other people that we hear pray and we can easily start to mimic what they say and sometimes we even sound like them, depending on our personalities.  The same thing happens with preachers, instead of being themselves they mimic other preachers at times, because that is what they think they should sound like to really be effective speakers, but that doesn’t work.  

If people aren’t careful, worship and worship leaders, can fall into this same trap, instead of leading people into real heartfelt worship, if they are not careful they can fall into entertaining and the people may get so emotionally stirred up that it becomes an emotional experience instead of real worship.  I am not saying that emotions are not a part of worship, but if you have ever experienced true worship you know the difference between true worship and just an emotional experience.  I know that people will argue that there are different kinds of worship, and I agree, but I think only the people involved can answer whether what they were doing was real worship or whether they just got caught up in emotionalism.

We are tempted in so many ways and one temptation is not uncommon to any other temptation and we all have to fight, or flee, these temptations to be overcomers.  Read what 1 Corinthians 10:13 says, “There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.”

We live in a society that is full of all kinds of allurements and temptations, also peer-pressure and there is so much entertainment going on and, sad to say, it has spilled over into the church.  So many things are tried to attract the non-churched world that, in some cases, it seems we have lost the main ingredient that is so essential and that is the Holy Spirit and His power and anointing.  God’s Word says it is not by might or by power, but by my Spirit says the Lord!!  The Holy Spirit can do more in a second than man can do in years.  I am convinced that if a pastor and his team are dedicated to prayer and the study of God’s Word and filled with the Holy Spirit and power and seeking God’s guidance with the anointing of God on their lives, people will be drawn in and that church will be a vibrant church.  There will be no need to entertain people, they will know the truth and the Word will be enough to keep them going and many of the people who have left the church will be healed of their bitterness and un-forgiveness and return, repenting and getting right with the Lord.  The Word says, “Unless the Lord build the house ye labor in vain that build it.”  I take that to mean whatever we try to build, whether it is a congregation or a family or a business or witnessing or whatever a true believer tries to accomplish in life.

Let me say this before anyone thinks I don’t struggle with some of these things also, I do, so as I am typing this out I am not talking down to anyone, I need this as much as anyone else.  Something to think about and have a super day!!  May God bless you and yours with His perfect peace, love, joy, health and happiness!!  Don’t forget to thank and praise the Lord, for He is worthy!!