The morning Manna will be provided at 6am.
Thanks. Studying In the Crucible with Christ in the SSnet.org series Lesson 11, may
the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart. The Topic today is: "When religion seeks feeling rather than faith in
Morning Manna of the Sabbath School Lesson In
the Crucible with Christ”. 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 143 and for the laymen
edition or Standard Edition, on page 94 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. Why do you not click on this now? https://absg.adventist.org/pdf.php?file=2022:3Q:SE:PDFs:EAQ322_11.pdf ---“We
think unless we have feeling that we are not in the right track, and we keep
looking within for some sign befitting the occasion; but the reckoning is not
of feeling but of faith.”—Ellen G. White, Selected Messages, book 2, p. 242. ---Adventist famous evangelist and GC
Secretary Charles Bradford in a speech at Oakwood to Ministers in 2015 said
that it is a problem when people want a “feel-good religion”. ---Adventist Systematic Theologian of the
1950’s and 1960’s said in his book Our High Priest that true religion is not
emotionalism. ---In a video, Baptist Musicians are
discussing the Music of Phillip Bliss and his life and they also discussed Contemporary Youth Music for Worship.
They complain that it is focused on rhythm, repetition, shallow theology and no
intellectual spiritual content. It is not biblically “deep” enough. They said. Besides
that, “it is noisy and loud”. ---On campus a group of young people last
night was practicing a kind of secular Korean young ballad singers physical
movement with music using a tablet. In front of the big White Building on
Sahmyook University Campus. ---I recognized the “Buddhist
ping-ping-ping” rhythm. I walked to them and asked them if the music is from a
Buddhist temple. ---I also asked if it is exercise, aerobics,
gymnastics or what is it? ---They told me that it is not a secular
dance but a kind of “celebration festival” for the upcoming University festival
day. They will perform. ---Even though I cannot speak Korean well,
they understood my question well for when I walked away the others were asking
whether I thought it was from Buddhist religion, I heard one asking. ---We too easily do things that make us
feel good without asking the mental consequences it can have. What influence
does this music and movements have on our ability to worship God? Will dancing
like Korean pop stars, help us to get closer to God or open our will to know
His will? That is the issue. ---The Heritage
Singers sang for many years to audiences in the Adventist church. Their
music came into the homes of many while they cook, drive, or work. Their music
was sung at college campuses for years. ---But the Heritage Singers’ style of singing, never became adopted into the
worship style of Adventism. The largest proportion of churches still follow the
music format the same as in 1960’s. I can witness to that. ---Experimenting with neo-Heritage Singing may also never be adopted in the worship
styles of true Adventism? We will see. ---But the reckoning is not of feeling but
of faith, Ellen White said in Selected
Messages Book 2 page 242.