I’m an Apostolic Christian. I love Jesus. I’m active in Church, playing the Piano, sing solos, and lead services in our local Church.
Doctrines in my Church make me still wonder if I’m saved.... I realize that some are man made... but the leaders of our Church makes it clear.... If you never spoke in tongues, you most likely never received the Holy Ghost, and therefore are not saved....
I have many times been at the altar, crying out to God... feeling the love... and here is the bigges problem... people in our Church believe I have the Holy Ghost... and I never soeak about it to anybody.... just praying that God will help me...
I’m kind of stuck.... I left another country, to help my father in law. He pastor a small country Church. He is burned out, and his spiritual fire is on low low... my wife will not leave his Church. She respect him to much...
I hunger for revival, shout worship and life. Our Church has only a few old people left..... If I leave, I might cause heartache in The family....
Hi geauz4it,
welcome to CC brother
God's the One that you need to follow, of course, but I'd say your assessment is a correct one. You moved where you did with the promise of helping your father-in-law out, and your wife doesn't want to leave, so staying seems the only thing to do (unless and until the Lord clearly leads you both elsewhere ..
Proverbs 3:5-6; Romans 12:2).
That said, one of my friends is a worship minister who left our mega-church for a few Sundays to help out a little church nearby (that actually sounds a lot like yours). He told me that the church was so dead that it was infectious, even for him, until he had them sing a song that was based on the 150th Psalm, that is, which begins, is filled, and ends with the phrases, "Praise Him" and "
Praise the Lord". (so it was an easy thing for the Lord to get through to him that Sunday by impressing this thought on his heart, "
YOU, Praise the Lord".
He told me that after that, EVERYTHING changed, for him and for everyone else in the congregation (just because he got his eyes off of the dead congregation he was trying to lead in worship & got them back onto the One he and they were supposed to be worshiping
).
God bless you!
~Deut
p.s. - if you have the gift of tongues, wonderful, and if you don't, also wonderful, according to St. Paul anyway .. cf
1 Corinthians 12:30
.........John 5
.........24 Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come
.........into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.
.