I came across this quote today and it really messed with my head!
"Mystical experience without moral
commitment is false religion." John Stott
I think that so many times we come into church for the chillbumps or the good feeling that the holy spirit gives us we don't come to truely "Die to ourselves" as Paul instructs us to do!
Because it's much easier to come to church for the good fealing instead of the life changing experience of Raw and Real presence of a living God!
We don't want to Loose ourlives to find them we would rather loose our lives with a good feeling because if we to that we can still be popular because the feeling doesn't change you!
But a true Encounter with God will!
So many of our churches engage in this form of false religion every sunday morning! I think that this breaks the fathers heart because they would rather live in the moment because when there living in the moment and there at the bar they can get wasted just like when there at the altar they can "Feel" God's presence!
So many people don't truely pick up there crosses and follow christ because in doing this takes some work outside of coming to church on sundays and wensdays!
It takes hours of prayer and hours in the word and a willingness to let your life be led by someone else!
We are a generation that lacks commitment you can see this in many different aspects of our lives from our relationships to our after school programs!
So many times we back out of things when they require a serious investment of our time!
We do this same thing when it comes to our realtionship with our relationship with God!
We back down when God call's us into things like full time ministry!
We tuck tale and run when god tell's us to go and start a prayer meeting at school!
Now I wanna hear your thoughts on this so comment or message me about this blog I wanna hear what you think about this quote and the rest of my blog!
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