tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7129800563763749945.post5891875885834191818..comments2024-03-12T13:36:04.032-04:00Comments on My Thoughts: PreferencesAKA Big Doghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03268933490107556551noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7129800563763749945.post-71464372788472441972008-02-26T09:01:00.000-05:002008-02-26T09:01:00.000-05:00If you would read the scriptures, focus on God's h...If you would read the scriptures, focus on God's holiness you would come to realize faith is not based on senuousness - as in things that make us feel good through our senses but true faith is based on God's word. You read God's word and truly seek him and you will come to the realization that the contemporary style of worship (that the world promotes when in fact the world isn't worshiping our God) is an offense to God's holiness and does nothing to build up the character or the standards of Christ. God's word will convict and lead the way. Let God be true and every man a liar.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7129800563763749945.post-1546262759007130102008-02-03T16:02:00.000-05:002008-02-03T16:02:00.000-05:00Anonymous,What?! I read your link and it makes abo...Anonymous,<BR/>What?! I read your link and it makes about as much sense as does your pointless ramblings about music and it's lack of importance in what the church is doing. <BR/><BR/>No I can't prove that "rock" music is justifiable biblically, but neither can you prove that about any music style. But to suggest that music has no value in church life or evangelism is indeed extra-biblical and ignores much of what the bible says about "singing" and "music" from both the Old and New Testaments. Yes, I do agree that to argue over music is a distraction to what the church has been called to do... but remember that it was you 'anonymous' that challenged this blog on the grounds of music and style and tried to ignorantly cite that such was unscriptural.<BR/><BR/>Remember, it wasn't the sinner that was the greatest hindrance to Jesus Christ, but the Scribes and Pharisees that was spouting the same garbage about Jesus' style and the fact it didn't fit the "traditions of man." <BR/><BR/>So go ahead with your line of thinking and rest in your "us four and no more" mode of thinking and feel very warm and pious about yourself and how you have no responsibility for winning others to Christ (since nobody can do that) and like the Pharisees of old with soon pass from the stage of history having made no real mark on their world.<BR/><BR/>Christianity has never been advanced by passive "lifestyle" evangelism or by those who are so bound to their traditions that they serve as nothing more than critics on the sidelines.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7129800563763749945.post-14743318827521169542008-02-01T15:32:00.000-05:002008-02-01T15:32:00.000-05:00May I challenge you to go to this site and read it...May I challenge you to go to this site and read it with an open mind and with the question always in the forefront ... is this true ... does the Bible really state these things. <BR/>http://www.av1611.org/question/cqtool.html God's word is anything BUT silent in this area. I Cor. 14:7-11 Christians need to be closer to Christ than they are to the world. If the church does not take a solid uncompromising stand on the word of God it will compromise in every area. God is quite clear to be separate from the world and the worldly desires ... God is a spirit and those that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth. If christians would walk closer to Christ, there wouldn't be nearly the divisiveness in churches we have today. This isn't about personal opinions - God doesn't care about our personal opinions - He doesn't change His standards because we think it would be much more fun to go to church if we could have dancing in the church or if it would be more fun if we could go out and have a beer from time to time - He is a Holy and Righteous and Pure God and He commands His children to be Holy, we are to "let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus" "come out from among them and be separate"... it is only His opinion that matters and He has been quite clear as to how christians are to live. Search the scriptures and you will find He has an awful lot to say about music. Music is not amoral at all. What you win people with is what you win them to. We need to be obedient to God's word and win them with the preaching of the word not with the rock sounding music of the world. Also, music is not a tool that God uses to bring people to Him, He uses the preaching of the word ... it is through the foolishness of preaching He says in His word. Sin is sin and churches have become way too tolerant and way to world friendly. People are dying and going to hell and chruches are arguing over musical preference!!! My how our focus has deteriorated over the years! It is GOD's preference that matters, it is God's word that stands through all eternity and God is the one and only way to heaven. God does not need music in the church -- take it out and listen to the preaching ... see if Christ is high and lifted up because His word clearly states "if I be lifted up I (not man, not music, not friends) will draw all men unto me." We think WE have something to do with people getting saved ... hogwash ... it is God and God alone. It is our job to let the light of Christ shine through us it is our job to lift Him up so others can see Jesus in our daily lives. CCM takes "Jesus" out of a lot of their lyrics because they don't want to seem too preachy or don't want to turn anyone off. Well friends, Christ is the only one that can save and if we think for one second that entertaining is helping God out, we need to get our focus and priorities right.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7129800563763749945.post-71047338961210987282008-01-25T13:41:00.000-05:002008-01-25T13:41:00.000-05:00I am a local Edgefield resident that wasn't raised...I am a local Edgefield resident that wasn't raised Baptist. I was raised in a Christian church that would consider the "Old Time Baptist" style to be compromising with the world. Why? Because it didn't fit their 'style' of worship. Many would be surprised to learn that many of the hymns that they consider so sacred had the melody that men like Martin Luther borrowed from songs sung in the local bars of their era. When will we Christians stop turning our methods into sacred cows? When we we stop "straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel" over things that God's Word says absolutely nothing about. We can keep our smug self-righteous spirits and condemn the efforts of people to make the gospel available to people without our specific religious backgrounds or we can be like the apostle Paul who said "I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some."<BR/><BR/>I applaud the wisdom of this pastor's blog and plan to attend the contemporary service there soon. Something, by the way, I don't think I would have ever been inclined to do had I not read his blog.<BR/><BR/>Keep up the good work, Edgefield needs this kind of evanglistic heart.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7129800563763749945.post-10405548619529084282008-01-15T10:58:00.000-05:002008-01-15T10:58:00.000-05:00it's a shame churches feel the need to compromise ...it's a shame churches feel the need to compromise God's word and become "seeker friendly" Music is a gift from God, the unsaved cannot worship in the same manner as the saved because it is foolishness unto them and they do not understand. We try to make them "feel" comfortable, Christ doesn't save by "feeling" Churches need to be separate from the world and stick to scripture and let Christ do the rest. Big does not equate with success. What are we as christians doing to disciple new christians? Are we teaching them to follow the word uncompromisingly? Obviously the church today would have to answer no. We're teaching them we'll have your music but put God's words to it, we'll become so much like you the only difference is we're going to heaven. The message does change with these kinds of methods. Get back to scripture and following God's word. This may be a narrow view but Christ said Narrow is the way and few there be that find it. We need to stop trying to make people feel good about coming to church and stop being so man centered and become Christ centered. If we're Christ centered everything else will follow.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com