Skeleton Skins and Familiar Faces.
Tonight I walked among the dead, and saw faces of the familiar. One among a crowd of humans with attention all gazed at one thing, pride. Amazing the money and sacrifice the world will spend in order to have their moment of ease, amazing the names we will destroy in order to find comfort in ourselves.
Sitting in observation at such a "secular" affair, the thing that struck me is all of the atheistics where that of those I experience in the church. Pretty lights, someone center stage, dancers, video openers, the scheduled transitions and the predictable "hour and half long" production.
...and that is just the auditorium.
I walk out and look through out the halls filled with over-priced merchandise - that seems to make up of things we think we need to spend our money on. Bars and concessions filled with low value food destroying our bodies. All I could hear was the sounds of money and cash registers and temporary joy.
Sound familiar?
I never saw that a Katy Perry show and most church services can have so much in common until now. I thought we were suppose to be "set apart", I thought we were suppose to be "in the world, but not of the world"? In my humble opinion I feel like we point the finger all day at "the fancy lights are a sin", or the "celebrity-like worship leaders are a sin" or the "over-paid pastors are a sin" but in reality the problem is not the little nit picky things but in the complete and whole ideal that we are more and more becoming EXACTLY like the worlds productions...
I'm not saying to turn off the lights, throw out the "Christian" bookstores and cafe's, because those aren't sins as much as they are just distractions... What I'm unsettled about is that the two are becoming one.
We are slowing losing the power of true Godliness and have replaced it with visual vanity. When was the last time you saw the blind healed, and the crippled walk? When was the last time you saw someone get slain in the spirit? When was the last time you felt the Holy Spirit move so strong the service lasted 4 hours...?
The glory days of the move of God doesn't have to be behind us, they can be in the future but we must sacrifice that one ting we are all holding on to, pride.
