In the last couple of months my family and I have been discussing the try meaning of worship and how we are suppose to worship and give back to God for all that he has done for us.
Several months ago my husband was touched by God in a worship service that was going on at the church that we were attending at that time. God moved on him and he ran in the church. He ran to the back area and wasnt showing off or anything like that. The worship was great by something quenced that ignition that made my husband and I take a deeper look at worshiping God. Well what happened was the pastor of that church stopped him and told him that he was "freaking People out man" were the exact words. I was deeply sadden by this because there were so many people that thanked mike for stepping out to worship God. The one who created us and saved us from all our sin, who gave his ONLY son so that we could go to heaven. How can we hold everything back and just play church and sit and not praise the glorious one who made is all possible. we talked with that pastor at a later date and we were not impressed or felt that we should stay there. Pretty much we felt that is was a church made for a certain type of people and all werent as welcome as I thought. They didnt want to scare anyone away, but it seems that if someone wants to be scared away they really do want to be there. I am so tired of the new types of churches that come in and sit and dont ingage with Jesus. It seems that they are ashamed of what God has done. I dont want to please man and the only one we should please is God. We didnt leave that church with harsh words or anything but I did state that if they dont realize that the church belongs to God not them and that he created us all to be free to worship and free to run. and free to live for him, without worring about offending someone.
I guess that belief is that when you subdue your urge to praise that you are dying to slef and not giving to the flesh and that there are other ways to worhsip, the other ways to worship part is so ture. You give of your money, time and talents. You share with others the love of God.
All in all I have found that there is NO freedom when you have to worry about offending people. That so what if we do offend them, its not by our own selves that any one will accept Jesus, it is his calling and he pursuing that engages them not us. Sure we do the sowing and plant seeds and nurture, train, and counsel them but we dont save anyone, it is only him that can do that. So when it is true worship and when some runs, jumps, shouts or praises God however it is God who will judge if it is right or not.
So we left that church becuase we knew our hearts was to be in constant worshipful and pursuing after him with everything, I mean everypart of our lives. and to find a church that freedom reigns.
We are exicted to know that we have found that place and that Going to New Visions Ministry Center is awesome. You see people getting saved all the time, you see that God is doing it, and that his presence is here. He is doing something for the city of Louisville with this Church and he is bringing back the worship to him. Worship and have a relationship with him and EVERYTHING else will fall into place. Accept him as the LORD of your life with Jump Start everthing. It will be hard and it will be tough, but I always say GOd wont give you anything that he didnt think that you couldnt handle.
Go out there and worship him, share the love of God, be a friend, mentor, and person of his name.
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