When we gather as a church, we sing songs that remind us and celebrate who God is and what He has done. I know that we often bring hardship into the gathering — hurt, difficulties. But are you allowing those things to overshadow your joy or are you fighting for your joy to overshadow those things?
From my perspective, there may be several reasons for being cautious. As a specialist in Catholic liturgy and ritual, the most important critique has to do with true intent of preaching – to offer insight and inspiration on the human experience of faith.
It’s not that we can’t find joy in other things. We should find joy in all the gifts of God. It is that if we are not satisfied in God first then we won’t have complete joy in anything.
When we grow and cultivate our understanding of the goodness of God, when we grow in humility, when we grow in thankfulness, when we run first to God for refuge, we will be kept and safeguarded and preserved. And joy abounds from this place.
We can’t simply demonstrate the gospel, we must proclaim it as well!
As the risen Christ, Jesus is believed to share God’s power to transform all life and also to share this same power with his followers. So the resurrection is believed to be something that happened not only to Jesus, but also an experience that happens to his followers.
If you are in Christ, then you yourself know the gospel. There is no way to be saved yourself if you don’t know the content of the gospel. It’s impossible.
Every song, to varying degrees, has a tainted source, because “all have sinned and fall short of God’s glory.” A local church and its leaders must determine, therefore, how much and what type of taint is tolerable in their context to not create a distraction and hinder their worship.
When we gather as a church, we sing songs that remind us and celebrate who God is and what He has done. I know that we often bring hardship into the gathering — hurt, difficulties. But are you allowing those things to overshadow your joy or are you fighting for your joy to overshadow those things?
From my perspective, there may be several reasons for being cautious. As a specialist in Catholic liturgy and ritual, the most important critique has to do with true intent of preaching – to offer insight and inspiration on the human experience of faith.
It’s not that we can’t find joy in other things. We should find joy in all the gifts of God. It is that if we are not satisfied in God first then we won’t have complete joy in anything.
When we grow and cultivate our understanding of the goodness of God, when we grow in humility, when we grow in thankfulness, when we run first to God for refuge, we will be kept and safeguarded and preserved. And joy abounds from this place.
We can’t simply demonstrate the gospel, we must proclaim it as well!
As the risen Christ, Jesus is believed to share God’s power to transform all life and also to share this same power with his followers. So the resurrection is believed to be something that happened not only to Jesus, but also an experience that happens to his followers.
If you are in Christ, then you yourself know the gospel. There is no way to be saved yourself if you don’t know the content of the gospel. It’s impossible.
Every song, to varying degrees, has a tainted source, because “all have sinned and fall short of God’s glory.” A local church and its leaders must determine, therefore, how much and what type of taint is tolerable in their context to not create a distraction and hinder their worship.
When we gather as a church, we sing songs that remind us and celebrate who God is and what He has done. I know that we often bring hardship into the gathering — hurt, difficulties. But are you allowing those things to overshadow your joy or are you fighting for your joy to overshadow those things?
From my perspective, there may be several reasons for being cautious. As a specialist in Catholic liturgy and ritual, the most important critique has to do with true intent of preaching – to offer insight and inspiration on the human experience of faith.
It’s not that we can’t find joy in other things. We should find joy in all the gifts of God. It is that if we are not satisfied in God first then we won’t have complete joy in anything.
When we grow and cultivate our understanding of the goodness of God, when we grow in humility, when we grow in thankfulness, when we run first to God for refuge, we will be kept and safeguarded and preserved. And joy abounds from this place.
We can’t simply demonstrate the gospel, we must proclaim it as well!
As the risen Christ, Jesus is believed to share God’s power to transform all life and also to share this same power with his followers. So the resurrection is believed to be something that happened not only to Jesus, but also an experience that happens to his followers.
If you are in Christ, then you yourself know the gospel. There is no way to be saved yourself if you don’t know the content of the gospel. It’s impossible.
Every song, to varying degrees, has a tainted source, because “all have sinned and fall short of God’s glory.” A local church and its leaders must determine, therefore, how much and what type of taint is tolerable in their context to not create a distraction and hinder their worship.
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