Is Modern Christianity Too Institutional?

[trialedbyfire]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

To be fair to GOD, I think it had more to do with Him than with the particular religion was at the time, which is sort of the point of the thread.

I'm sure. All I'm saying is I can't sit around and bash the organized and/or institutional church if it was in fact in the institutional church that I was delivered. I've seen to many people set free from bondage, seen God move to may times, to many miracles. People come against organized church all the time, I don't bother arguing, I know where God saved me, and I choose simply to stay here, in the church, with all it's problems and issues. I'll deal with them, I'm just grateful to be saved.

[Truthseeker]

Originally Posted by RandyWayne

Yes. This is why when you are in a large congregation such a conference or camp service, "moves of the spirit" moving like waves. The people react to those around them talking in tongues and getting jiggy with it. In fact, the dynamic is exactly LIKE the classic "wave" you see moving around a stadium at a football game.



Every true move of God I've seen (and Yes, I've seen many) effect the whole congregation -large or small, at the exact same time, and there was/is no doubt of its origin, even for a natural skeptic like me.

Amen!!!!

[Truthseeker]

Originally Posted by trialedbyfire

I'm sure. All I'm saying is I can't sit around and bash the organized and/or institutional church if it was in fact in the institutional church that I was delivered. I've seen to many people set free from bondage, seen God move to may times, to many miracles. People come against organized church all the time, I don't bother arguing, I know where God saved me, and I choose simply to stay here, in the church, with all it's problems and issues. I'll deal with them, I'm just grateful to be saved.

God is so gracious. He moves even when in messed up situations or systems.