tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9129556058615289740.post8047098761311236313..comments2024-03-15T12:58:50.777-06:00Comments on High Plains Drifter: We are Not Ignorant of his DevicesTim Sheyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07931913325290043598noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9129556058615289740.post-44163462121017682932010-12-01T10:38:53.886-07:002010-12-01T10:38:53.886-07:00Theresa: Your "problem" is that you hav...Theresa: Your "problem" is that you have a lot of spiritual depth for your age. I meet Christians all the time who have been saved for twenty, thirty or forty years and they still suck on the milk bottle--they are still shallow and unspiritual (carnal).<br /><br />A long time ago, someone told me that my problem was that I was honest and that I was a poet. Which probably meant that I wasn't going to do too well in the world system (I knew that when I was an atheist 17-year-old; I didn't believe in God, but I was desperately seeking truth. I began to read Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" at age 17. Eventually, my frustration with man's philosophy lead me to the Cross of Jesus Christ). Desperation and hunger for God got me saved; I have little or no time for pukewarm Christianity.<br /><br />I am not a naturally gifted poet like you, but I do like to read inspiring poetry. I probably have a heart of a poet, but I am not so good at expressing poetic thoughts like you and T.S. Eliot and Gerard Manley Hopkins.<br /><br />About going to church. Don't force the issue. If it is God's will, you will meet someone and they will invite you to their church and it will be perfect timing. <br /><br />About commercialized churches. Leonard Ravenhill once said that when the Presence of God is not in a congregation, that is when the theatrical stuff takes over. If the Presence of God is in a congregation, you don't need all the churchy church light shows and stage performances. Simplicity is beautiful and powerful.<br /><br />"The Kingdom of God is not in word, but in power."Tim Sheyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07931913325290043598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9129556058615289740.post-72314672358637601482010-11-30T21:40:57.192-07:002010-11-30T21:40:57.192-07:00I don't even know what to begin looking for wh...I don't even know what to begin looking for when I go to Church...<br /><br />When I went to Church last Easter for the first time, Christ definitely spoke to me. He said to my heart as I was looking at the congregation, "Perhaps they don't understand... but look how hard they try." It made me realize that not everyone was as lucky as me to have God so present in their lives, and that somehow I'd been holding it against them. I had a moment of forgiveness with Christ, and a tiny revelation. Just because his followers weren't perfect doesn't mean Christ wasn't who he said he was....<br /><br />The Church I was baptized in definitely had the Spirit... but it was very commercialized, and I got tired of it after a while. I want to go to a smaller congregation where there is more a sense of family, not all this theatrical stuff, light shows and stage performances and whatnot... I need something simpler that doesn't distract from what's really important: communion with God.poetsforpeanutshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13209171840636823473noreply@blogger.com