Confessions of a Proud Church

Excellent, powerful article.

I have printed off copies to give to people.

It would do us all well to go through each individual line, in prayer, and see where we each fall short.

That is unless, none of it applies to anyone. But I don't think that's true.

We want all of God with none of the pain.

Nothing for nothing.

God bless.

Timely brother, [i]this[/i] is the problem.
[i]This[/i] is prophecy if there ever was one.
[i]This[/i] is the Lord's controversy with His people.
[i]This[/i] is at the very [i]last[/i], 'they', 'them', 'those'.
This is me.
Read this as "I" ...

Some more paltry contributions;

We pontificate
We denounce easily and pronounce flippantly
We do not know [i]what manner of spirit[/i] we are
We have turned the sermon on the mount to mourning of the sermon
We refuse admittance, confession, heart ward repentance
We fake and camouflage transparency
We do not truly believe that;
We are evil, ultimately, continually, evidentially at the core
We have the tongue of poison
We are unruly
We are wretched, poor, naked, blind, miserable

We infer
We hate correction
We despise shame
We will not suffer
We fail in righteousness because it is pride
We prophecy lies and have no shame nor trembling
We believe we are above it all
We refuse to contemplate
We will not think and think again
We do not hate our lives in this world
We have the plank of an I in the eye
We have taken the [i]me[/i] out of we
We refuse to accept that the controversy is with [i]us[/i]

We will forever be learning without coming to the truth
We will not weep over our condition
We will miss the very help that contrition brings
We will read all these things and cast them aside
We will let this all slip right on by

We are building our own houses.

And Kingdom's I might add. Thanks for sharing Bro. Greg.

We prophecy lies and have no shame nor trembling

Brother this is one of the most fearful sentences I have ever read. Would to God it be far from all of us. God have mercy. Reminds me of the man who smote the prophet and asked him in effect where did the Spirit go out from him and in to him. In other words, the man boasted that his false prophecy was true and smote the man with the True word.

We will read all these things and cast them aside
We will let this all slip right on by

May it not be so. This whole list sounds almost like a confessional cry at a prayer meeting when folk have finally gotten serious.

It would do us all well to go through each individual line, in prayer, and see where we each fall short. That is unless, none of it applies to anyone. But I don't think that's true. We want all of God with none of the pain. Nothing for nothing.

This is a very good thought here, using this list as a prayer guide could prove to be very useful in spiritual preparation of the heart.

I have done this in the past using a prayer guide that I found that contains a list of questions to ask of yourself before God. It is most helpful, I posted it here on SI some time ago, here is the link...

[url=https://www.sermonindex.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=3390&forum=40#22543]Sweet Hour of Prayer - a guide for personal prayer and awakening[/url]

In Christ,

Ron

Thank you for that link, I immediately sent it on to 2 ladies that are seeking God to re-establish prayer in their church in a real way. It's a good resource. KDB

Excellent! I will also copy this and share it with others - after studying it more....

Did ya'll ever think about it how pride really is the root of all sin? It thinks more of "I", "ME" then anything, anybody else, especially God. My opinions is superior to God's plain truth...etc.

Thanks for sharing,
ginnyrose

Wow -- this is a great thread! I printed this out and placed it on my mirror. Thank you for sharing.

:-)

I don't recall the exact quote from Art Katz's message entitled "One Thing You Lack" but it was something like this "If you are not suffering persecution as a Christian it is ipso facto evidence that you are living beneath the kingdom level."

In other words, if you haven't entered into this, then you're not a Christian. His words very sobering to me.

So I want to hear your voice... what do you think of the post below? Is it false?