Saturday, April 12, 2008

There are No Jews, No Greeks, etc. Part 6

No one will argue that worshipping Him is important. No one will deny that we must seek to go by His Word. Where the lines of communication come down is which part of His Word holds more weight to God. I’ll tell you again, I don’t know. Only God knows. Since I like a sure thing and don’t like taking too many risks, and my desire is to be sure that I treat Him as God and the One in charge, I think the safest and surest way is to adopt the principle of doing what the entirety of God’s Word says and what Jesus taught and if there is nothing, no word, no example of his pleasure or displeasure, nothing, then God really doesn’t give His seal of approval or stamp of condemnation and allows us to pursue our own free will. As long as it doesn’t preoccupy us away from Him. But what we as His people must realize that the style of worship of God in the first century was different from worship in 500 B.C. was different from worship in the 18th century and the 20th century. Simply because cultures change. People change. And whether we believe it is a bad word or not, evolution, or microevolution, within all cultural races has occurred. But one thing has remained the same: God never changes. His desires for us, His Word, His promises are still the same whether we are in the first century church or the 21st century church. Pleasing Him is not that hard if we keep in mind His principles are never changing. And neither is His love.

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