I was just thinking about a church service attended a few weeks ago. I'm not a regular goer by any means,
but this place I'll return to.
Folks talk a lot about true faith and the "real" path to God. These folks seem to truly be trying to get there.
It's a very small church. Maybe 30 folks or so in total.
In mid service one younger christian stated that we got to the path to God through work. It's that sort of congregation that impresses me. The congregation can and does ask questions, the the preachers/ priests/ whatever you choose to call them. Answer them. Pretty much a Q and A session each time.
I love that!
If you can't ask others questions about God in church or ask God in church then what use it is? Why bother? Taking someone else s view of God and just accepting it is rather silly to my mind. Need to find out for ourselves.
At any rate. This fellow had stated that we get to God via work. He was stopped immediately and advised that God comes to us through Grace and not work. So very true.
There is not one thing in the world we can do to bribe God with our works or our money or our promises to do this or that.
He gives, we receive and that's all there is to it. We tend not to like this one wee bit. We have that desire to give and get. Even the people in the lowest positions in life believe that all is give and take.
Yet...we are not God. The rules and different when dealing with God than with man.
We are not God, we are the children of God that are still in training to join him back home.
All that comes to us is a blessing of God. If we know it or not.
We live in grace and we end this world in grace. It's all his giving and none of what we do.
What we do have a need to learn is how to accept that grace. Blessings come and we tend to ignore them or discount them. Thus we place ourselves in our own mind further from God. We talk about coincidences, or things that "just happen". They don't. We create within God. And by his grace we create all that is in our lives.
It is never our work that brings us blessings. But God's love that does so constantly.
I don't need to work for God. He is water to me. My environment. My life. No need to seek him out, just accept that he is here with me always.
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In our church too with our ex-Pastors and elders, there was Q&A bu8t not now. I like this style too.
ReplyDeleteThat 's correct, its thru grace not by works that get are saved.Eph. 2 says that very clearly.
Our church is also very n small, aboutnnthat many. I like small churches.