The morning Manna will be provided at 6am.
Thanks. Studying In the Crucible with Christ in the SSnet.org series Lesson 6, may
the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart. The Topic today is: "Get away from
steering your life with feelings as navigation". The Opening Hymn will be 229 "Spirit
of the Living God" The Sabbath School Quarterly, downloadable
from SSnet.org in the Teacher's Edition is on page 74 and for the laymen
edition or Standard Edition, on page 48. The SSnet.org site allows anyone, anywhere
to read the lesson in their own language. Choose your own language to see God
speaking also to your heart. ---An amazing lesson today. Written with
such clarity, how can I add? ---The topic is the role of feeling in
worship and in religion. ---There is the will and there is feeling. ---Feeling has a simple choice: I like or
I do not like. ---What is a problem is when you say: I
like and that is right. I do not like and that is wrong! ---It is the ingredient for Life-accidents.
---It can drive you out of the church. ---I do not like Footwashing so I will pretend today that I have a cold. ---I do not like the pastor's sermon, or
the pastor, so I will finger-role through my Smartphone. ---On mount Carmel the dancing worshippers
and the swinging singing and celebration or festival style worshippers of Baal
was mocked by the man of God, Elijah. At mount Sinai it was Moses who was
shocked at the dancing worshippers with raised hands and swinging to the music
around a calf. Feeling good worship. ---Edward Heppenstall warns against this
kind of worship in his book Christ Our
High Priest. It is cheap gospel because the Spirit of God is not allowed to
speak softly to our minds, and we cannot hear Him in loud, noisy, acoustics
with synthesizers and drums and what not. ---The style of the Holy Spirit to the
individual is soft impressions and quiet understandings coming from the Word of
God, not our feelings. ---What about the role of the feelings
orientated on-becoming-teenager worship? ---If they do not have space for
generation differences in their worship, their worship is lobsided, as a start. ---If grandmother cannot find her God
comfortably in the worship, something is severely wrong. It is feelings and not
the Spirit of God leading. ---Teenager worship can derail true
Adventist worship. We need to see it and know it. It is based on borrowing
songs from Presbyterian churches and other churches and import that feeling
focused ballad fashion into our worship style. That is dangerous for our
present time.