What if the modern day church suddenly changed? What if there were no programs...no entertainment...no lights and sound effects... What if everything was stripped down to just seats to sit on? Would you still go to church? What if there was no Sunday morning worship lineup and the musicians came off the platform (and yes...I said platform... it's not a stage for the purpose of entertaining...it is a platform for getting out the word that God would give His people), and they sang and played their instruments sitting with the congregation so as to not be the focus. What if all entertainment was dropped, only the Word was preached, people sat and encouraged one another, and deeply studied the Word together. What if the church doors were open at all times, and people actually came together and prayed with such intensity as if preparing to go into battle? Would you still go to church?
Everyone has a grand idea of what the modern day church should look like...but what if that idea is so far from what God intended? What if that grand idea of church has caused the Spirit and the power of God to be quenched? Is the reason we are not seeing the full impact of the power of God upon lives because we have put the focus on all that is not Him...in an effort to present Him to a lost world just as the world?
When the disciples were in the upper room praying in unity and one accord...it was then that the Spirit came upon them...and it was then that they received the power to do all manner of miracles and it was then that the Lord added to the church daily it says, such that should be saved. (Acts 2) Oh Church...What if...we became what God had called us to be...would people begin to be healed, delivered, transformed, renewed, refreshed? Oh Church...what if...?
Everyone has a grand idea of what the modern day church should look like...but what if that idea is so far from what God intended? What if that grand idea of church has caused the Spirit and the power of God to be quenched? Is the reason we are not seeing the full impact of the power of God upon lives because we have put the focus on all that is not Him...in an effort to present Him to a lost world just as the world?
When the disciples were in the upper room praying in unity and one accord...it was then that the Spirit came upon them...and it was then that they received the power to do all manner of miracles and it was then that the Lord added to the church daily it says, such that should be saved. (Acts 2) Oh Church...What if...we became what God had called us to be...would people begin to be healed, delivered, transformed, renewed, refreshed? Oh Church...what if...?