Comments on: Galatians in Your Church http://www.bearcherian.com/2009/09/galatians-in-your-church a new beginning Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:24:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: joyce http://www.bearcherian.com/2009/09/galatians-in-your-church#comment-128 joyce Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:58:01 +0000 http://www.bearcherian.com/?p=212#comment-128 I think you started a valid point, but went off on a personal tangent. Church isn't casual friday. There should be at least a desire to be in the presence of God appropriately dressed. It's not so much a rule, as a suggested dress code. You wear the best of what you have. You give to God, the best. It's one thing if you don't have the clothes to wear, but it's another to deliberately wear jeans just to prove a point. The former is humbling, the latter is childish. Going to church in your "Sunday best" maintains the idea of church being special and holy, not just a weekly tradition. That is not an idea that is unique to Malayalee Penti churches. Your verse and point were valid when you said that we shouldn't look down on people or shun other races away. Our Indian churches do need to work on cultivating relationships with other races and truly be a place of welcoming worship. It would be wonderful if we weren't known as being "Indian" church or "Malayalee" church. We should work on being a church- the way God intended for us to be. But, in the end if you go to a Penti church, you should know that there are deep rooted beliefs that Penti's have. It isn't culturally related, it is biblicaly interpreted. To be blatantly disrespectful of those traditions is insensitive. You may not agree with the Pentecostal church, but if you are going to worship at one, and lead worship in one, then you don't make for a strong witness when, the moment you leave the Pentecostal church, you leave the Pentecostal ways. I think you started a valid point, but went off on a personal tangent. Church isn’t casual friday. There should be at least a desire to be in the presence of God appropriately dressed. It’s not so much a rule, as a suggested dress code. You wear the best of what you have. You give to God, the best.

It’s one thing if you don’t have the clothes to wear, but it’s another to deliberately wear jeans just to prove a point. The former is humbling, the latter is childish.

Going to church in your “Sunday best” maintains the idea of church being special and holy, not just a weekly tradition. That is not an idea that is unique to Malayalee Penti churches.

Your verse and point were valid when you said that we shouldn’t look down on people or shun other races away. Our Indian churches do need to work on cultivating relationships with other races and truly be a place of welcoming worship. It would be wonderful if we weren’t known as being “Indian” church or “Malayalee” church. We should work on being a church- the way God intended for us to be.

But, in the end if you go to a Penti church, you should know that there are deep rooted beliefs that Penti’s have. It isn’t culturally related, it is biblicaly interpreted. To be blatantly disrespectful of those traditions is insensitive. You may not agree with the Pentecostal church, but if you are going to worship at one, and lead worship in one, then you don’t make for a strong witness when, the moment you leave the Pentecostal church, you leave the Pentecostal ways.

]]> By: Shibu, FL http://www.bearcherian.com/2009/09/galatians-in-your-church#comment-86 Shibu, FL Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:44:57 +0000 http://www.bearcherian.com/?p=212#comment-86 A truth to be spoken to this generation!!! Years of certain raddicle belief system based not on the word of God is what some APMs' follow. The word of God, the truth, shall set everyone free. Rather than believing and focusing on the tradition, if poeple read the word of God and focus on Christ Jesus, this generation can tramble down this enemy. Let this be a prayer for every man, woman, child- jew or gentile, God make me that person you want me to be so I can be a child who produces the fruit of the spirit: Love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Always know, Jesus looks at the heart of the worshiper! A truth to be spoken to this generation!!! Years of certain raddicle belief system based not on the word of God is what some APMs’ follow. The word of God, the truth, shall set everyone free. Rather than believing and focusing on the tradition, if poeple read the word of God and focus on Christ Jesus, this generation can tramble down this enemy. Let this be a prayer for every man, woman, child- jew or gentile, God make me that person you want me to be so I can be a child who produces the fruit of the spirit: Love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Always know, Jesus looks at the heart of the worshiper!

]]> By: aleyamma http://www.bearcherian.com/2009/09/galatians-in-your-church#comment-85 aleyamma Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:00:42 +0000 http://www.bearcherian.com/?p=212#comment-85 Amen. (longer response later, but had to say this now, and I'll say it again-- Amen.) Amen. (longer response later, but had to say this now, and I’ll say it again– Amen.)

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