The services have been not four or five hours but virtually non-stop for the last 100+ hours. Some are decrying this as “emotionalism.” This sort of thing is not just breaking the mold but making a lot of people feel uncomfortable or convicted!
There seems to be an overwhelming fascination in evangelicalism with what is wrong. There is a lost world looking on as we quickly share articles that accuse brothers and sisters of things that are not provable facts in many cases.
It is altogether too easy to find ourselves filling life with times of Christian songs, Bible readings and even prayer, while missing true communion with Himself. God can be missed in these things when He is not sought for Himself, but only treated as a means to an end.
Many philosophers, christian theologians and prophetic men are speaking of Western civilization entering into a new dark age similar to the medieval dark ages. Human history has been short, fickle and full of uncertainty and the time of darkening upon the world should concern us as christian believers.
That Scripture has been a continual warning and encouragement to me, though we are greatly secure in Christ we are still warned not to fall. So how do we finish well?