I love this answer..........peeps would always ask others if they are a christian when they heard others playing a christian song...................playing a christian song then regularly doesn't make one then........
Unfortunately, what happens to a lot of people, they go where it is happening, drawn by secular things in and of this world. I am not saying these things are necessarily bad, but need distinction.
I was deaf, and walked into an assembly to check it out, I saw a man to the right, tapping his legs, moviing his head and mouth. So as I watched not being able to hear, I started imitiating him, until I got it down. Now later I realized not to imitate any one else, not even Christ.
You say WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, I say yep, Christ's walk Christ's Babtism is not mine, I am not Babtized by God thorugh Christ to go to a cross, I am babtized to love as God showed through the cross of Christ mainly the resurrection.
So instead of imitating Christ, which I can't do a perfect Job at that, but I can look awfully good at trying and get many patson the back for it, and did one time in my past as I did quite well at imitating Christ.
Then one day I asked after going through some ordeal, in feeling guilty and asking for forgiveness, over and over, this was over getting angry.
I was asked which Jesus Christ did you accept into your heart?
I said what, there is onlyone Jesus Christ, looking at this man in absurdity, appauled at this question
Then he said NO, I am asking you if you asked the one that you are trying to imitate that you are having so much trouble with imitating and are stressed out over it?
Or the one that not only wants to live in you, but more importantly through you, by your choice, God does not interfer in ones free choice, so which one?
What a life change ever since, what a differance, hope you see it too!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for your response, and maybe now if not already you will respond to God first and foremost by what God has, past tense already done for you via the cross of Christ. And one does not have to go to Church to know God. Just the want to know God, is enough for God to reveal god to you if God has not done so already for you. I suggest to go to God with the below in mind. But go wiht what you want and be honest to God, I think God can take it, even if it is anger, God is MERCY
"Comfort God by letting God know that you would see God just to dwell in God's Presence. Not for teaching, not for material gain, not even for a message, but for God. The longing of the human heart to be loved for itself is something caught from the Great Divine Heart."
I see three things that God requires, out of the first testament of God, and today after the cross I see this not as a requirementm rather a response to the Mercy of God, anyway hope to have helped in your walk
Micah 6:8He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to
love mercy and to
walk humbly with your God.