Church Safety & Security Course Coming to Seattle‏!!!!

This is a natural outworking of the petty kingdoms of men in the context of people who do not understand the judgement of God. I was reading Isaiah 36-39 last night which tells of God rescuing Judah when the Assyrians attacked during Hezekiah's reign. He humbled himself and sought the Lord and the Lord saved the people. Later, when Hezekiah faced what he considered an early death, he pleaded with God to extend his life he might enjoy life with mankind and worshipping in the Temple. God did extend his life but because his heart was set on his own glory, he ended his life with the knowledge that his descendants would face Babylonian captivity and some would become eunuchs because he had grown proud in the glory of Jerusalem and shown all he possessed to the envoy from Babylon.

It is interesting how this correlates to these "church safety" courses. God has given these people much wealth but because they love it more than Christ Jesus they do all sorts of things to protect it. I have noticed that all churches I have seen in this area have security systems and the larger ones have guards. Why can't we be thankful with food and clothing?

I really don't know what to think except that I know I wouldn't attend this meeting.

Sounds like these haven't grown enough to fully surrendered their lives and know beyond a shadow of a doubt that what comes into their life has had to come through the hand of God first.

Pray for them!

God bless you,
Lisa

PS: (edit) I read Jeremy's post... what he said!!! Excellent point Jeremy!

Many Americans are obsessed with security. It's all some people know how to talk about anymore in the news. Job security, financial security, port security, data secuirty, network secuirty, personal security, emotional security, home security, national security, homeland security, even eternal security.

Interesting larger question to me is, why is it the more people have, the more insecure they feel? I believe it has something to do with how we can gear up emotionally and mentally for risk and challenges when we have to, but as we attain more security we want to be insulated from risk and challenges. For instance I've noticed in general that entrprenures, with no job security, tend to be more optimistic about their futures, then employees, who have at least some job security, but tend to be pessimistic about their futures.