He taught us to be kind and not to judge, to treat our neighbors respectfully. He taught us to turn the other cheek and to have faith in God’s word. Jesus taught us not only to love ourselves but to love mankind as well. Jesus taught us how to walk the road to righteousness and to have faith in God our heavenly father. Jesus addressed many issues during his sermon on the mount.
I agree with Packer’s statement: “They are as intimate as they are grand, and they offer themselves for worship by ordinary people searching for a suitable object of devotion" (474). Unfortunately, this may be true, to suggest people want or need a tangible object or person to worship is profound. Humans are made in God’s image. We are naturally religious, and being so, we need to hold on to or trust some form of “idol”-- and celebrities are it. As a result, we have to ask ourselves: “Where are we going to place our devotion (trust)... in God or men?” Buggs 2 In reality, people don’t watch television or sports or go on social media to find God.
(Religious-Science.com 2008) The truths about the purpose of life and that our creator, God wants us to be happy and that he has a plan for each one of us. There are many references to truth in the Holy Bible. One of the best known verses “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6) explains that Jesus is the truth. In a search for the keyword “truth” online of the Official King James version of the Bible, 364 references of the word in bible verses can up.
Its hard to comprehend that the lord just forgives us of our sins so easily and its almost too good to be true. I feel that its one of those things that you just have to be patient and with time you can accept this great thing the lord does for us. A lot of Christians carry around guilt and don’t realize that once they are born again they are graciously forgiven. This guilt that these Christians carry around inhibits them from being at there full potential and that’s why they need to let go of there sin, just as the Lord as let it go as well. "'The assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.” (Hebrews 11:1) Faith is a powerful thing.
We are not allowed to choose what we like to worship and rejected what we do not like. We cannot just worship God for what he has done but also for what he will do. The ideal state of worship is to be close to Isaiah like he was in chapter six of that book of the Bible. When we are lost we need to seek (and hope to find) the holiness of God and become aware of our sin in order to truly worship. Instead of going through the motions at church, we need to truly focus on what we are worshiping.
I’m glad where able to come under banner one and man of God, because we have different demonstrations and teachings, but were serving one God. We live in a world where individualism is encouraged to the extinct, where we are sometimes forced to consider ourselves separate from one another. That’s why I’m glad I have Bishop James McNeal Jr. in my life. He knows how to bring the people of God together. N.C.F.C.
Christian love must be guided by the moral teachings of scripture and the church. Sierra Brocks November 5, 2009 Experience Relations I do not believe that Foreman Audience can relate to the experience he present. The experience that he presents to his audience is not a experience of his own. Therefore, he does not have the passion to include in order to give his readers a more vivid picture of the situation. In order to write about an experience, one has to feel strong and have passion to really get through to the audience.
They say that Bible teaches us to worship God by playing music the way it is written in the book of Psalms. Angelic beings and twenty-four elders are also using music to worship sovereign God, which is true. It is clear that the Holy Scripture says that music is primarily way for people to praise and worship God. So the godly spiritual music melody should sound peaceful, lift up people’s spirit and have positive influence on people’s hearts and minds. What about metal and hard rock music melody?
The Bible has such a source of authority, God. This is what is commonly known as divine inspiration. Divine inspiration is “the guidance or influence of the Holy Spirit on the human writers of Scripture so that God controlled them in such a way that what they wrote was exactly what God wanted them to write without error.” (Towns 2008) Support for this inspiration is revealed in scripture like II Timothy 3:16 “All scripture is God breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness.” The term “God breathed” translates to mean “divinely breathed”. Elmer Towns notes “since breath is life, when God put His Spirit into the words of Scripture, He was also putting His life in Scripture.” (Towns 2008) God placed his endorsement of authority on the Holy Scriptures with his own breath and at the same time gave divine life to the Bible. Hebrews 4:12 “For the word of God is alive and active…” The Bible is authoritative due to divine inspiration, but what good would this authority be if what was written in the Bible was unreliable?
"But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. And you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea, and Samaria and to the ends of the earth." (Acts 1:8) As a church we recognize that we serve the Triune God, and we stress the importance of developing our relationship with God and with Jesus, yet it seems to me that there is a lack of talk about our relationship with the Spirit. What is the Holy Spirit? I believe many of us regard the Spirit as something of an essence or wind-like force that surrounds us and leads us to be like God.