Saturday, November 26, 2011

more emotion at a football game than at church

The reason so many churches are not much more than social lodges is their weak abstractions generate very little, if any, emotion. Many churches do not compete well with the world's attractions. Without emotion, our abstractions are stillborn. Some churches display little emotion and others are not much more than ritualized emotion. Abstractions should normally lead to emotions, this is the normal course of events. Those who reverse the order are thrown into an arbitrary and unpredictable thinking process that makes them vulnerable to manipulations of whim and circumstance. Then there are those who are wary of emotion as a loss of control, probably because they have not done, simply put, any homework. When talk of the spirit rises, which is after all what any church should be all about, then they retreat because things are getting ghosty. This is ironically the exact case of the matter. Churches without the presence of the Holy Spirit are a contradiction in terms. If abstracting has not taken place, then one should be wary. However, without emotion there is no power to translate the abstract into the concrete. While we are in the concrete it is more difficult to control the manifested world, one would think, because abstractions are more powerful from the unseen.  

Friday, November 25, 2011

when we see eye to eye

For those who follow the commandments of Christ, if they actually love someone they do not accuse them, they excuse them. We have one accuser, the father of all accusations, the source of doubt the devil. When a christian accuses his brother we can say he is giving tongue to the devil. Devil is a term for the personfication of destruction and the lover the many mirages of oblivion and there is no love in it. If I think someone is not in harmony with the commandments of Christ I may witness to them, but for my own benefit not theirs. It is up to the Holy Spirit to convict those that He will, no one else. It is not anyone's job to straighten any person out but themselves. We see this when Jesus speaks about the speck and the beam in the eye.  

Sunday, November 20, 2011

eating the spirit builds the body

The only way christians can please God is to have faith. The only way for the faithful to have or build faith is to feed their spirit faith verses in the Bible, and thereby hear the word daily. We all eat food three times a day every day for our bodies. We all feed our spirit something, christians should eat the words in the Bible at least once a day for their spirit. God has the power to heal them but if they just agree it is not good enough, we all must have enough force to believe. The spirit knows what it believes. Many christians are not too sure of what it is since they spend very little time searching their spirit out.