Instrumental music in worship?
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i play the violin. i can play the guitar. there have been times i'm playing the guitar, and God gives me words to sing.
i'm also a member of the music team at my local assembly. i have seen how Holy Spirit ministers to individuals during music time (as we sing and play instruments). it's a beautiful thing.
Jesus has set us free
i'm also a member of the music team at my local assembly. i have seen how Holy Spirit ministers to individuals during music time (as we sing and play instruments). it's a beautiful thing.
Jesus has set us free
I'm going to make an analogy ..... Life is a cooking competition, God has given us a cookie recipe (bible) and tells us to make chocolate chip cookies (as the recipe says) ...... The judging comes (judgement day) and Judger(God) looks around and says "why are thee so many different kinds of cookies? I see some with raisins(a denomination) I see an oatmeal cookie(a cult) and I even see some muffins(a different religion) ! How hard was it to make the right chocolate cookies? I told you not to add to the recipe or to take from it (revelations 22:18-19)! Why is there so many kinds? Why did you add oatmeal or take away butter?" Only the right chocolate chip cookies win the prize (heaven) and the wrong cookies get burned(hell)....... This is what the judgement will look like.... You call me legalistic I call it including all of the ingredients! You say instrumental music is fine"I'm sure God is pleased with these peanut butter chips"(instrumental music) ... God won't be pleased with the wrong kind of cookies(worship)!
Hmmm... interesting analogy. You have put yourself in a very small logical box. Because you assert that only what is explicitly specified in Scripture is acceptable, you may not utilize anything outside of Scripture. Again, by your own method of interpretation, you are in error. Good luck explaining your way out!
Let me give you an analogy right back... Jesus is the Baker. He makes the cookies however He chooses, and because He loves us, He invites us into the kitchen to enjoy them with Him. He is pleased with us not because of how we made the cookies, but because we accept His gracious gift and delight in it, and in Him.
Let me give you an analogy right back... Jesus is the Baker. He makes the cookies however He chooses, and because He loves us, He invites us into the kitchen to enjoy them with Him. He is pleased with us not because of how we made the cookies, but because we accept His gracious gift and delight in it, and in Him.
Sir Derp, sir,
Who are you or your denomination to decide what kind of cookies God the Father wants to give His children?
How do you know that He doesn't have a variety for all us different kids.
Maybe He makes kitchen sink cookies that has EVERYthing in them, and you're plucking out all the raisins?
For the last time, feel free to worship any way you want.
I really hope and pray you come to faith and salvation in Christ alone and get set free from the bondage of dictatorial church trappings and fear-laced performance.
Jesus loves you.
He paid it all for you.
He wants you to rejoice in the freedom He shed His blood to give you.
But if you don't want that, okay, but you trying to tell us how we should respond to His salvation is getting us all nowhere, so you might as well give it up.
Now, where's magenta and jesuslives, I need a cookie.
Who are you or your denomination to decide what kind of cookies God the Father wants to give His children?
How do you know that He doesn't have a variety for all us different kids.
Maybe He makes kitchen sink cookies that has EVERYthing in them, and you're plucking out all the raisins?
For the last time, feel free to worship any way you want.
I really hope and pray you come to faith and salvation in Christ alone and get set free from the bondage of dictatorial church trappings and fear-laced performance.
Jesus loves you.
He paid it all for you.
He wants you to rejoice in the freedom He shed His blood to give you.
But if you don't want that, okay, but you trying to tell us how we should respond to His salvation is getting us all nowhere, so you might as well give it up.
Now, where's magenta and jesuslives, I need a cookie.
He already gave his son and y'all want him to do the rest of the work to ........ Marathons are extremely taxing and hard ...... Battles are tuff and difficult...... The Christian life is compared to both ,..... Christianity isn't easy and it isn't God's work to get us there ..... He provided the path we have to walk on it!
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You have nailed the problem, exactly. And, frankly it is kind of surprising they do that, because The Churches of Christ are very possibly the most aggressive (though not all that accurate) group of Believers I have been a part of when it comes to Bible Study. I spent a couple of decades in Bible School there, and I have to credit the CoC with giving me the background I now enjoy. There is hardly a word of Scripture I hear that I do not almost instantly see in my mind's eye, thanks to them.
However, I have also had to spend almost as much time "unlearning" erroneous doctrine I was ingrained with there.
However, I have also had to spend almost as much time "unlearning" erroneous doctrine I was ingrained with there.
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Thank you, nice of you to say that, and I'm so glad the Lord led you out of that, and that you are taking those lessons and putting them to good use to help others like us here, and to God's glory.
It's good for God's kids to dwell in peace together.
Sorry for the few 'words' before, I'm still a work in progress.
And before anything else ever gets said,
let's let it always be, 'WHAT words'?
God bless you. Thank you, Jesus. Peace.
It's good for God's kids to dwell in peace together.
Sorry for the few 'words' before, I'm still a work in progress.
And before anything else ever gets said,
let's let it always be, 'WHAT words'?
God bless you. Thank you, Jesus. Peace.