Baptist Service

[rev_kevin]

I went to a Baptist service this past Sunday. Wow. I was shocked when I walked in; throughout all of it really. I couldn’t worship God there. It just seemed to; fake?
I still can’t find the word for it. It just doesn’t work. I was unable to take it seriously. I’m not trying to be offensive. I just can’t connect it and God.

I being a baptist find the services to be wounderful. I here a lot of negitave things here about the way we worship. I enjoy the openess and free feeling in my church. Our pastor has been there for over 25 years and is loved by all in and out of the church. He preaches from both the Old Testament and New Testament. We sing alot of praises to God. Our membership is around 2000-3000 strong. Our pastor knowes everyone by name yes all 3000 of them. If he meets you he remembers you name. To me it feels more like a family, like you are one with eachother. It not words repeated week after week or the same old routine. We must all remember that people worship in different ways, people feel comfortable in their chruch settings, Just like the baptist church isn’t for all, the Catholic church isn’t for all eather. But why put down the way some one worships God just because it is not the way you do. I don’t think God said you are to worship only the way the Catholics worship. The way you worship is your choice and who am I to say that your way is wrong just like who are you to say our way is wrong. There is no right or wrong way to worship Our God. Just as long as you believe in him, trust in him, love him, accept him, and try to live the way Jesus lived it shouldn’t matter to anyone you or me how someone worship him, we are all children of God. So lets act like it.

 

[Janet1983]

This is the kind of service I went to, and that is exactly what I was thinking. It was pretty bad. The sermon would have been what kept the service together, but it wasn’t much either. There’s an English Baptist church right across the street from the one I attended that is like the former you described.

There is no way for anybody to say that a Baptist service does not have true worship. First of all all Baptist churches are individual communities and secondly every church handles their worship different. The main part of the service is the sermon and in a small Baptist church you will find good and solid preaching as well as prayer and worship.
I was catholic for most of my life and I enjoyed the fact that there is no difference between a mass in Germany, the Netherlands or the United States… True worship however does not come by uniformity in style, but through the hearts of men and women. Many churches today house community members who want to get their ears tickled. They do not want to hear sound doctrine and because of that preachers like Joel Olsteen are a judgement upon them. They flock around motivational speakers by the thousands because they do not want to hear sound teachings. A service is not about the advances in media and it is not about the perfection of the choir. In most cases large masses of people indicate that there is something fundamentally wrong with the teaching and the worship…
The member list of the church I am a member of can be put onto less than one page. This is because not everybody wants to hear the truth. They’d rather hear that they are awesome and how God supposedly promises them health and wealth…