“There is something very worrying in
the church of our day. It is the near total absence of worshipers. Many
believers, even after five, ten or twenty years in the Lord may never have
truly worshiped Him even once. There are number of reasons for this. Since
deliverance from sin and being filled with the Holy Spirit are pre-requisites
to worship, and since many believers remain in the Kindergarten of God
struggling with sin all their lives, they never get to the place where they can
worship the Lord in the beauty of His holiness and their holiness. Secondly,
the practice of most churches is to ask people to rattle some words to God at
fixed moments in the service, regardless of whether or not they are in tune
with the Lord and they call this worship. Believers are therefore, deceived to
think that what is not worship is worship. They therefore never press on for
the real thing. Thirdly, the sad lack of true worshipers whose worshiping
lives can serve as an example for others to learn from and who can teach others
both the theory, the act and the practice of worship. May the Lord Jesus, the Head
of the church, act in might, and may He act rapidly to raise some worshipers
in His church, so that the present day of starving may end.”
-
Zacharias Tanee Fomum
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