The primary purpose of a church should be the same as the primary theme of Jesus Christ's ministry. This would be the spirit specifically the giver of spirits and of existence, the Holy Spirit. It would not be, in my speculations, until Isaac Newton that anyone would mention unseen forces in the scientific arena.
However, scientific circles were not comfortable with his efforts despite the mathematics, because they were still of the mind sight was proof. Their fear was Newton in discovering gravity, they thought, was getting too close to psychic phenomena and the occult.
Many in churches, and even the pulpit itself, do not have any idea of spirit whatsoever, relying exclusively on their concrete senses. An example of this would be a pastor telling me that if God did not heal a person, then this that and the other was the reason.
His speculations were not only bannered under God's laws, but in closing off whether or not someone was healed, had abandoned the first rule of faith, Persistence. He was no longer believing, and in doing so had shouldered off the responsibility for healing onto God, rather than his abandoning his faith.
No comments:
Post a Comment