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1 | To obey or not to obey ! | Bible general Archive 1 | Taleb | 74198 | ||
EdB, please remember the promise concerning “when you fall – He WILL pick you up.” Hopefully, this will too. Are you a carpenter on the side? The reason I ask, you hit every nail square on the head. Not one bounced off, nor bent. They ALL were placed in their proper position. As I read your well thought out post, a song popped into my mind. When I was young in the Lord (eons ago), we put Scripture to music. (It really helps memorize huge portions, (sort of) and we easily remember songs and jingles.) Galatians 5’s song is what “played”. If I may, I want to stand fast on that soapbox of yours. I know it will hold me, because it is solid, firm and sturdy. “Stand fast therefore in the liberty, wherein Christ has made us free, and be not entangled again in bondage. Only use not liberty as an occasion to the flesh, but with love serve one another. For the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, goodness, temperance, meekness, faith, against such there is no law. Stand fast therefore in the liberty.” In tune, Taleb |
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2 | To obey or not to obey ! | Bible general Archive 1 | EdB | 74236 | ||
Taleb Scratch, groan!! That is me crawling back up on the soapbox. You touched on it let me expand. Hymns, they weren't invented for our entertainment, or to give us chill bumps, they were conceived as a way to help people memorize important doctrine and scripture. Today we have thrown the whole concept out of the church. Today we use choruses to get people in the "mood" to worship, to entertain, to give chill bumps. We will even do it as the expense of doctrine or right teaching. If you really listen to what many sing today it is horrifying. Some songs talk more about us and what we are going to do, instead of glorifying God we are glorifying ourselves. Other songs spend more time talking to Satan it makes one wonder are we here to praise and worship God or Satan? Others just have flat out bad theology. No one seems to care as long as the song has a nice beat, stirs emotions, and excites the physical. Many time you can ask someone do you believe what they just sang and they say yes then you tell them and their shocked. It is like they check their brain at the door when they walk into church. Walk into most churches and suggest a hymn and listen to the moans, and comments like that is old time. Hymns have been around through nearly all the transitions of music and have remained unique until the last 30-50 years, now they have become “old time.” Notice also the church has dumbed down during the same period. In and effort to avoid “religion” and get something “fresh” we have lost the fundamentals that may the faith so precious. Now every wind of doctrine prevails and people believes what seems right in their mind. What a tragedy people are being deceived because we want the new, the fresh, who cares if it right as long as it sounds good. Thud! That was me getting off my box. EdB |
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3 | To obey or not to obey ! | Bible general Archive 1 | Taleb | 74237 | ||
EdB, Amen and Amen. You're "singing my tune". While visiting a church awhile ago I approached a soloist, after the service, to compliment her on the powerful message of her song. She glared at me and said, "Look Bucko, it's only a song." She stormed away. I still don't know who or what a bucko is suppose to be. Another time, another church, the long "worship-time" (?) only consisted of songs like "I've got a mansion"; "When we all get to heaven". It causes one to make time to keep time with Him. No pun intended. :) Taleb |
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