пастор Назаров Дмитрий Андреевич - 27 СЕНТЯБРЯ 2015 ТРАНСФОРМАЦИЯ ВОСПРИЯТИЯ - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

Today I want to talk about how our perception gradually changes, how it transforms on the example of how we relate to the building in which this worship takes place. At one time, at the very beginning of our church, when we did not even dream of having our own building in the city center, we proclaimed, quoting the scripture that the Almighty did not live in man -made temples, as the Prophet says: my heaven is the throne, and the earth is foot My legs. What house will you create, the Lord says, or what place for my rest? Acts. 7: 48-49. We argued (and quite fairly) that the biblical meaning of the word “church” - “eclesia” in the Greek original of the New Testament means “collection” and has nothing to do with architecture. But God began to show us something, we began to see that the people of the country, among which we are called to preach the Gospel, did not accept our interpretations and began to reflect on other words of the Scriptures: for the Jews I was like Jews to acquire Jews; For the by -laws, he was as an bygone to purchase by -laws; for alien law - as an alien law, - not being alien to the law before God, but is fumed in Christ - in order to acquire other people's law; For the weak ones, he was as weak to acquire the weak ones. For everyone, I became everyone to save at least some. 1 Cor. 9: 20-22. We agreed with what AP teaches here. Pavel began to pray that the Lord gave us their own building, while thinking that it was the presence of his own building that is a “key” moment of creating the Church. But when, after time, God gave us this place, we had the opportunity to make sure that the walls and the roof are not what attracts people to Christ! Today we need to look at the path traveled and start thinking and praying about how to make this place really filled! Yesterday, at a pastoral meeting, brother Dmitry Blagovo sadly joked that Christian churches are undoubtedly the richest organizations on earth because they could only afford to own a building at a price of several million, to use two hours a week. Friends, we need to do something, and do not act like the Jews that the Prophet exposed: do not hope for deceptive words: "Here is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord" Jer. 7: 4. This is an empty seduction to think that the building itself with the sign of the church will attract people here. I have been feeling for a long time, and I believe that it is in me from God, that we need to create in our church (or in the association, as inter -church service), the department of gospel, the task of which would be the training of people who make up the church and the work of gospel. For some reason, we believe that to testify to Christ is a matter that has nothing to learn, it is enough just to know the gospel truths and be ready to tell them to every person. I think many tried to testify many times or two times and when it did not work out, they were upset and no longer try. But the call of God for gospel still sounds and people in churches carry a certain feeling of guilt because they are not blessed. So we see that on the one hand there is a place that should be filled, and on the other hand there is a call of God, which must be executed. So we need to ask a question to ourselves: are we ready to admit the fact that our attempts to fill this building of the Church by people were insolvent? We have a good “base”: our own building, worship, preaching, communication, prayer and refraction of bread (Eucharist). But we do not know how to achieve people with the gospel, as evidenced by the very filling of this hall today. And here is my question: do we want to learn this? Do we believe that God is strong to send us the instruction in this through people, just as He gave us instruction in the gifts of spiritual, just as He sent us people with the organization of musical service in the Church? Are we ready to separate our time in order to study the gospel? For some reason, no one has the illusion regarding music that it is enough to pick up an instrument, as “in itself” beautiful sounds that glorify God are over. No, everyone understands that there is a time of training, there is a time of rehearsals and a prayer search for how to build a ministry of worship. And at the same time, we see that sometimes worship is better, we plunge into the grace of God deeper, and sometimes somehow superficially, something is missing, we do not reach the state of detachment from all the worldly, which is the goal of worship. In the same way, the sermon sometimes affects us to the depths of our souls, and sometimes we leave the meeting without receiving this, although the pastor was preparing for the service for many hours. So why do not we want to attach this to the gospel in order to force ourselves to study and train in it? Thinking about this, I come to the conclusion that we consider the gospel of “not our own” business. In fact, judging by our actions, we do not believe that it is I who are called by God to carry the gospel for those who live, common