Apostoic worship??

[Aquila]

Originally Posted by houston

Maybe Aquila was trying to become MTD’s friend.

I just felt Michael was taking too much heat over style of music he liked. So, I decided to step in and take some heat off of him. And it's actually entertaining. I've been called bad names, condemned, compared to New Agers, etc. Oh... but little do they know... they're just mice under glass. lol

[Aquila]

Originally Posted by Esaias

I did a short teaching once on worship, pointing out the word implies prostration. And how when people came before a king they not only knelt down, but laid out flat on their face with arms stretched out forward.

This did several things.

1. It showed they had no weapons in their hands, and meant no ill, they were not enemies.

2. It exposed their neck, putting them in a very vulnerable position to the king or his servants.

3. It kept one from really seeing what the king or his guards were doing thus demonstrating trust.

4. It placed you in a vulnerable position that prevented you from being able to defend yourself, again displaying trust.

Worship then is when we come to God without fighting Him or His will, with total trust in His goodness, completely vulnerable in that we are willing for HIM to hold all the cards and dispose of us as He sees fit, with no resistance on our part.

That's really good stuff.

[Aquila]

Originally Posted by houston

Like this?

Proverbs 18:13
He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.

[Aquila]

Father, help us see past our differences and bind us together in the bonds of love. Help us to see and understand what each and every one of us has found in you that the whole might be benefited. In Jesus name. Amen.

[n david]

Originally Posted by Aquila

paranoid heresy hunter.

Originally Posted by Aquila

Name calling. Really?

That made me laugh.

[n david]

Originally Posted by Aquila

Father, help us see past our differences and bind us together in the bonds of love. Help us to see and understand what each and every one of us has found in you that the whole might be benefited. In Jesus name. Amen.

Is there an added benefit to typing a prayer and posting it online? Besides others seeing it.

Do you often just start praying during a normal conversation with someone?

[n david]

Originally Posted by Aquila

So, relaxing, putting on some music (or even sitting or laying silently), and enjoying the presence of the Holy Spirit is condemned in Scripture?

Contemplating the depths of a spiritual truth or Bible verse is condemned in Scripture?

I think you're just being a paranoid heresy hunter. lol

No, but that isn't what contemplative or centering or soaking really is. If you believe it's just warm feelz, then you don't really know what contemplative, centering or soaking is. The origins are from the occult and catholic mysticism.

Do you also hold seances? Do you sit in a circle with a pentagram and burn sage?

[Aquila]

Originally Posted by n david

That made me laugh.

I noticed that you only quoted a small part of my entire statement. For the sake of the reader, I actually said:

Originally Posted by Aquila

So, relaxing, putting on some music (or even sitting or laying silently), and enjoying the presence of the Holy Spirit is condemned in Scripture?

Contemplating the depths of a spiritual truth or Bible verse is condemned in Scripture?

I think you're just being a paranoid heresy hunter. lol

I said that you were "being a paranoid heresy hunter" because you're overreacting towards everyone who doesn't do things your way or worship exactly as you do.

Ah, but you actually called me a "witch":

Originally Posted by Esaias

Nice try, witch. But that stuff doesn't work on me, sorry.

Being told that you're being a rather paranoid "heresy hunter" is nowhere close to being called a "witch".

[Aquila]

Originally Posted by n david

Is there an added benefit to typing a prayer and posting it online? Besides others seeing it.

Do you often just start praying during a normal conversation with someone?

If a prayer bothers you, perhaps you need to ask yourself deeper questions.

I pray when I feel the Spirit bid me to pray. And yes, I have interrupted conversations with prayer when I felt the Spirit bid me. Lately, it's been more like, "Father, help me understand my children and not want to ring their little necks!" lol

[Aquila]

Originally Posted by n david

No, but that isn't what contemplative or centering or soaking really is. If you believe it's just warm feelz, then you don't really know what contemplative, centering or soaking is. The origins are from the occult and catholic mysticism.

You're only judging it according to what others have said it is. I'm willing to wager that if you actually researched it more deeply, you'd realize that in many ways, even you have done it for years. You just didn't put a label on it.

Do you also hold seances? Do you sit in a circle with a pentagram and burn sage?

Nope.

Why would you even ask that???