Sunday, August 19, 2007

Visiting Churches

OK. So i visited a new church on Wed and decided i would visit on Sunday as well. The wed service, like HBC was a prayer meeting, with one big difference. They had a missionary come and give his presentation. And about 5 or so min was actually devoted to prayer. I am sorry to say, that while the message that the missionary gave was good, he seemed very unprepared. But, I decided to come on Sunday, to hear the pastor. Well Sunday was different. All the Sunday School classes (except the children's class) met upstairs in the main sanctuary. It was for their yearly anniversary service, celebrating their church's birthday. The pastor didn't bring the message, but had a friend he went to bible school with come and preach. The thing that stuck out first is that he gave us a passage to turn to, and we didn't even get to it for 15 (or at least what felt like) minutes. And it was like that when he delivered the main service as well. What really got to me is that instead of the service being one of edification and teaching us truths from God's Word, he kept going on and on about Islam. As a Christian, i know full well the threat we face from Islam. I know that it's the fastest growing religion out there. I know that they do not like Christianity. But please, i don't need two hours worth of someone going on about it, and not even having what you are talking about go along with the passage you read. The thing i did enjoy about the service was that they had a musical group come in, kinda like Simple Grace. Don't ask me their name, i have no idea. They were really good. But i have to say that i don't think i will be going back to that church again, they may be sound, but if they are letting people preach that aren't even doing their job, it's not a good place to be in.

2 comments:

AlreadyButNotYetResurrectedFallenMan said...

It does really stink that all churches don't preach the gospel straight... I wish it were't so...

Daddy's lil girl said...

Dude you need to update this man.... LOL... jk! Talk to ya later bro. =P