Bring Back the Zeal!

Having come out of that RCC system myself I see more clearly the similarities to the "Protestant churches" than someone who has never been there.

The first century church gathered all day, they had their meals together as well as prayer and preaching. We are so far from the first century church model our gatherings do not resemble what the first believers did.

They were so on fire and without modern distractions that gathering together all day was a joy and met with anticipation each week.

We are so seriously distracted by worldly pursuits that our culture is anxious to get out of the building as soon as the clock strikes noon. As though something terrible would happen if we went one minute over the designated time. A sort of "obligation" mentality that we remembered from our Catholic days.

The Sunday mass was called "an holy day of obligation." Think about that, who wants a friend who visits out of obligation waiting impatiently for the time to come when they can leave. If I were God I would hate obligatory visits, and He does.

Matthew 15:7-9 "…7 You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you: 8 ‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. 9 They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’”…"

OBLIGATION really!!!!! If we are only worshiping to get it over with so God will not be mad at us, then I am here to tell you God is mad about that, He hates it. Just as we are hurt by a visist from someone who has no real interest in us. Those doing it need to repent and ask Christ in them to bring back the love for God they had when they were first born again.

Ignore your feelings of getting out of the building to do other things and pray for fervor once again.

"Fervor" = zeal and passion! For the Lord!!!!