Good Friday
Today is Good Friday. I am about to eat dinner and then the family is going to go to church. I look forward to the Good Friday service every year and this year is no exception, but I am really starting to tire of my church. Not the people, the pastors are amazing and cool, the kids are all really nice, and the adults are very cool (and all good cooks too). No, I am tiring of the politics of church. The power games that are played between different people over silly little things are disgusting. People should be asking how they can best serve God, not how they can control everything, especially in the church. For the most part, people don't realize that they are doing this, but their motivations are not the greatest. As a church we do not have a contemporary service, and almost everyone dislikes the hymns week after week. We use CIRRICULUMS in the sunday schools, and we don't have home Bible studies. This past year I have really been cutting back on the attending church. I have in no way been backing out of my faith, but I was becoming discoraged and depressed every time I went to church instead of being reinvigorated to fight for my faith. I stopped playing in the youth praise band (which I notice has since fallen apart completely), I stopped going to youth group, and I started going to the adult Bible study instead of the high school one. I now learn things in Sunday School, and can work Wednesday nights, and don't get depressed about my church as much.
Oh I cannot wait until next year, living in the dorms. My plan is to seek out some fellow Christians for a daily Bible Study, and become involved in a local church that is alive and vibrant. I want to have a Christian roommate so we could do a little devotion each night before bed, but I doubt that will happen. Eating breakfast every day with fellow believers while praying and studying is a definite possibility though. It would also keep me in a good schedule for school. I miss Bible studies. I don't care about a teacher reading me something out of a concordia publishing house book about what I should apply to my life because the Bible says so. I want to read a chapter with my fellow soldiers and attempt as a group to decipher it, and then tell eachother how WE think it can apply to our lives. Oh how I long for that.
God bless.
Derek
This is currently my away message:
God died to forgive you for your sins, so you can live eternally with him in heaven.
Good Friday is the remeberance of the immense suffering that our God went through to save me, you, and everyone. He cared so deeply about a single human soul that he sacrificed his divinity and allowed death to take him human body.
I cannot wait until Easter!
Oh I cannot wait until next year, living in the dorms. My plan is to seek out some fellow Christians for a daily Bible Study, and become involved in a local church that is alive and vibrant. I want to have a Christian roommate so we could do a little devotion each night before bed, but I doubt that will happen. Eating breakfast every day with fellow believers while praying and studying is a definite possibility though. It would also keep me in a good schedule for school. I miss Bible studies. I don't care about a teacher reading me something out of a concordia publishing house book about what I should apply to my life because the Bible says so. I want to read a chapter with my fellow soldiers and attempt as a group to decipher it, and then tell eachother how WE think it can apply to our lives. Oh how I long for that.
God bless.
Derek
This is currently my away message:
God died to forgive you for your sins, so you can live eternally with him in heaven.
Good Friday is the remeberance of the immense suffering that our God went through to save me, you, and everyone. He cared so deeply about a single human soul that he sacrificed his divinity and allowed death to take him human body.
I cannot wait until Easter!
posted by Duncan Ohio at 8:41 PM
1 Comments:
Hang in there. One of the Enemy's oldest tricks is to get our eyes of the Son on onto His followers and all their foibles. All churches, all societies of men, always suffer from the petty problems you describe. But you are right in your desire to gather with brothers and sisters at school (or anywhere) to seriously wrestle with the Scriptures to clarify our vision of God and His doings in our lives. I know it will be an exciting and fullfilling time for you.
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