I am frustrated.... I don't get how people can read the bible and the commands it gives and call my church oppression ... Narrow is the way and few there be that find it ..... If the bible is all easy and nice and just you don't have to do anything then how is it hard to find?
Very easy. We read the bible and see the liberty that Christ has set us free, your church reads and sees a list of commands that they hang around the necks of it's members like a yoke of bondage.
If you want to sit on your hands, not move your feet, not play an instrument, by all means, worship the Lord as you think He would have you.
I go to different churches, and they have different worship styles, and in one you'll see some people lifting their hands, singing full volume, sometimes with tears of joy, others may be more reserved, some may be quietly praying and tears may be of a different kind.
Usually though, everyone's worshipping from the heart in thanksgiving to Jesus for His gift, and it's free but not disorderly or confusing, as has been seen on TV with rolling in the aisles and barking like chickens. Or is it clucking like hounddogs.
Other churches are more 'structured' with a liturgical style, church organ and standard hymns, that's fine too.
But the problem arises when a church is dictating worship laws to believers, and instead of worshipping God in Spirit and Truth because they're saved and free, they're worshipping according to the rules of the church elders in fear of God's anger or being ousted from the community.
What's worse is when their members judge or condemn other Christians as being unchristian because they don't do it their way.
Again, go worship according to your conscience, or the dictates of your churches rules, but if you think you can come on this website and tell a bunch of us born-again, bible-loving, set-free believers in Jesus how not to celebrate His victory for us, you're barking up the wrong tree, and you're just going to cause debate and division, exactly NOT what our Savior commands!