I don't get up on Sundays and attend a church service in a church building for many reasons.
NOWADAYS... You have fruo-frou music.... No deep soul searching going on with this stuff.
No songs about Heaven and longing to go there.
NOWADAYS... You have frou-frou preaching.... No deep, fiery messages about God, Heaven and how we should prepare to go. It's all about living our lives HERE on earth...
NOWADAYS... Nobody cares about going to Heaven.
I long for the days of old... when we sang about Heaven and how we couldn't wait to go.
I long for the fiery messages preached by a man of God who was a true shepherd or watchman for our soul.
I was involved in a conversation not too long ago... where I expressed the fact that I didn't like the "new" music or the sermon that was preached at a church I visited. I was immediately told... "all those old songs talk about is dying"..... and "all that ole time preachin is warning people to get ready, the rapture is coming"........... I chose not to comment, due to just creating an argument, but I have been so disturbed by this conversation and so very saddened.
Now, I am not interested in a man standing behind a pulpit telling me how I should dress, what I should eat, where I should or shouldn't go.... but I am interested in a man of God being my shepherd, my watchman for my soul. THAT is the duty of a Pastor.
NOWADAYS... we have none.
My husband would prefer I not be so hard... so maybe I will say we have few, if any! They all wanna be King of their domain. It's all about growing a big church and being "cool".... The don't visit their sheep like they used too, have dinner at church members homes, get to know them. They don't tarry in the altar with them... they have others come up and pray with or for them.
At this same church, there was a moment when a woman went to the altar ... NOBODY ... went over to pray with her. I expected the preacher to go and at least pray with her... when he didn't, I thought for sure somebody will go... But Nobody went. I was like, well, that would Never have happened in the older days when preachers knew it was their duty to be the shepherd of the sheep.
NOWADAYS... Music leaves me feeling empty. I can come home and put on my "old" music, or turn my keyboard on and sing the "old" music and I go straight into the Holy of Holies!
And NOWADAYS... Nobody, knows what the Holy Ghost is much less believes or preaches you have to have it! What is up with that?
I told my husband the other day... I was ready for a "Real Old Time Church" like we used to have. I'm not interested in pleasing the crowds. I want people to come and FEEL God. I want people to come and leave knowing they touched Heaven. Or as the song says... "They went to Heaven, though they never left the room!" -Hinsons
I want him to preach sermons that warn people about the rapture and to help guide them so they don't miss it. If we don't get shepherds and watchmen back so many people are gonna be lost. I want to sing the songs that talk about going to Heaven. Leaving this ole earthly world, earthly body, living in a new world and having a new body.
I don't understand people being content to live here on earth and live this life and then what?? I am ready for the rapture... ready to go get my life started in Heaven... ready to worship around the throne... ready to see my savior and praise him for just being REAL to me.
I don't want to be a NOWADAYS church... I want to be an ole time church! I wanna tarry in the altar, I wanna sing til I don't have a voice, worship til I am exhausted and come back and do it all over again. Let's go back to talking about Heaven, singing about Heaven, getting ready to go to Heaven!
I'm not talking about any one religion...... NOWADAYS, they are all alike. You can't tell them apart. Although there are some that do retain the "old time standards" so to speak. But even they have changed their music and preaching. But there again... We don't need preachers in pulpits telling us what "standards" we should live by. God "ripped the veil in two" so that WE our own self, could go before HIM and have HIM to tell us what is right and what is wrong. Preachers are there to preach about Heaven and to guide us... not tell us...... or mandate to us what sin is and what sin isn't.
NOWADAYS... they say those old songs aren't relevant to/for today. They were wrote long ago.. for another time and age. Well, if that's the case... Do you believe 'The Bible" is relevant to/for today?
NOWADAYS... that old time preaching isn't relevant to/for today. But do you not believe in Heaven and going? Do you not believe in the Rapture? And getting prepared to go?
Go ahead with your NOWADAYS churches and church services.... But I have a longing to feel the mighty power of God like it used to be manifest in a church service.
