Why do we go to church? I believe this is one of the most taken for granted question. Some may be because have-to-tag-along with parents' reason, my-friends-are-there-so-I-go reason, there-are-many-'chio~bu'/'yan~dao' reason and I am sure the list can go on. And the top listed answer must be 'worship God lorh'. Please dun get me wrong. I am not doubting the people who give such answer. In fact this should be the reason why we go churh. However, I feel, even for myself, that we should really reflect upon what is the true meaning of worshipping God. Sometimes as we give this answer, we already have a perceived idea of how worshipping God should be and sadly, it is not really the true understanding of what worship is all about. I won't go into details of how worship should be but my intention is to really provoke us to really re-consider our pre-conceived way of worship. Look into the bible, look at how Abraham, David and the many others characters worship God. I am sure it will give a light and a few pointers to re-adjust our way of worship. And another thing is that you will never be able to fully comprehend worship and fully exercise worship. What I mean is our worship can never be worthy for God but it is because of His love and grace that He chooses to accept our worship. But that does not mean that we should never try to 'improve' or 'excel' in our worship for God. Whatever we have, we will want to give the best to God.
My philosophy is that the only reason to go to church is because to worship God. The meeting up of brothers and sisters in Christ is purely because in that individual, there is also a like-mindedness to want to worship God and thus drawing them together. So in a way it's like a 'fruit' produce from the Christians who come to worship God. However, if a person was to go church just to find friends, companionship, they will run themselves into the danger of not fitting in and very soon they will feel left out because in the first place, they never embrace the true reason for going church. Well then again it's not for me to judge people for their reason to go church. My intention is just to put up a warning sign to remind ourselves. Most importantly, I believe that for whatever reason these people come to church, I know God can turn it around.
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
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