Should church be a big old celebration where everyone is singing, dancing, and playing contemporary christian music (maybe some types of evangelical churches) or should it be fire and brimstone where you have hard hard wooden pews and someone like the Puritan Jonathan Edwards preaching about eternal damnation and what an insanely torturous place hell is? You know- contemporary or puritan?
2006-08-26 08:42:29 · 7 answers · asked by cannonball 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Dear Aceboyle: Truly neither. How about a place of WORSHIP and some FELLOWSHIP.
Puritan preaching of hell-fire and damnation is far removed from a loving Father who Created WHAT HE Loved. That means He Knows exactly what He Created ; what it IS that He Created. We do not fool Him. He Knows us - as Himself. He trusts us to learn and to correct error.
Hell is not a destination for anyone - nor a location. It is a hellish-mind. There is correction for that. Fires do not exist.
Within Worship and Fellowship let the Majority of any given Church decide on what music lifts them upward - into the Father. That's a personal decision. For the congregation to sing along with the Choir is to lift your voices in unison - One-ness - in praise of the Father. It's a vital -izing experience.
Dancing, etc., is again a personal decision for each. Find the Church that contains the practices you like best. Do you feel Jesus would be interested in the formats of WORSHIP, or attentive to the Worship itself? Let's think as He thinks.
2006-08-26 09:44:45 · answer #1 · answered by Lana S (1) 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither.
On a continuum from Far Left (wooden pews) to Far Right (celebration), somewhat on the left of the median.
2006-08-26 15:53:36 · answer #2 · answered by flandargo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why such extreme choices? Why can't we fall somewhere in the middle? There is a time for everything. Why can't we party before the Lord at times, and humble ourselves to also hear the more difficult messages at other times? Every message has a valid time and place.
2006-08-26 15:49:24 · answer #3 · answered by lizardmama 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say whatever the Holy Spirit is moving a particular congregation to do, that is what they should do. Not everyone worships God exactly the same way and nowhere does it say we have to. I enjoy worship services that are somewhere inbetween the two extremes you described.
2006-08-26 15:48:47 · answer #4 · answered by cool_breeze_2444 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
im not christian...but church should attract people to come and pray especially for youth...if u put them in a boring church experience while theyre young...they may not b adult churchgoers later in life
2006-08-26 15:51:08 · answer #5 · answered by xo_cuddly_kitten_xo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The party thing sounds less boring....
2006-08-26 15:47:58 · answer #6 · answered by Rika F 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It should be lead by God.
2006-08-26 15:44:52 · answer #7 · answered by Princess_SomethingOrOther 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋