Comments for Confessions of a Worship Leader http://j2nice78.wordpress.com Where honesty and ministry collide.... Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:48:50 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Fake Christians by LiberatedEagle http://j2nice78.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/fake-christians/#comment-428 LiberatedEagle Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:48:50 +0000 http://j2nice78.wordpress.com/?p=28#comment-428 I say Amen to this. I no longer attend a "church" building. I'm tired of the hypocrisy. Also, you can volunteer until your face falls off, but when you need any help, there is noone who cares. You dont even get a phone call or hospital visit to make sure you are still alive after surgury. But they sure want you when they need money, that is all they seem to really care about. And the cliques, let's not get started on that. I say Amen to this. I no longer attend a “church” building. I’m tired of the hypocrisy. Also, you can volunteer until your face falls off, but when you need any help, there is noone who cares. You dont even get a phone call or hospital visit to make sure you are still alive after surgury. But they sure want you when they need money, that is all they seem to really care about. And the cliques, let’s not get started on that.

]]> Comment on Fake Christians by tashalilly http://j2nice78.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/fake-christians/#comment-427 tashalilly Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:08:03 +0000 http://j2nice78.wordpress.com/?p=28#comment-427 Hey I have a confession i don't know what I'm about to say is just to have a clear conscious of all my wrong doing or to just justify my actions.I have been raised in a christian home all my life and seen what a real christian lifestyle suppose to be but yet I just did not consider how important of living a holy lifestyle truly is. I thought i have been getting closer to God but the closer i get the more i realize that the quicker i fall. Just a couple of weeks ago my church had a revival and yea i was one of those christian singing alone, crying, carrying the bible in one hands while waving the other.I honestly believed that I was on my way to a pure and holy life when one day i get a call from a boy and he ask me if he can see me and like any hopeless girl i said yes although we may never keep our half of the bargain Jesus still does. I wanted this guy for the longest and now he asking me to hang out i was trilled but when he started to touch me and climb on me this is not what i wanted to happen suddenly a knock from a door just stop everything and there i was in the bathroom looking at the mirror like you weak little girl only if God wasn't here you would have been so far in the sin.But God always have a way of showing you out of a sin, its up to us to actually take advantage of it. SO i Repent of my sins and was like this is the last time i will ever do anything to hurt God. The following week my friend ask me to go to a birthday weekend trip and yea neither of my friends are what you would say are "Christians" so i told my self i will go but i will try to act like a christian at all time to try to be the light for my friends yea yea yea that didn't work out i was probably the worst one at that party yep i think i was...AND now Im just thinking to myself that I am not as strong as I thought I was I am WEAK, CONFUSED,AND YEA A FAKE CHRISTIAN! The moral of the story is that i will Probably never be the Perfect Christian but as i grow up and see what my flaws are and how many imperfection i really have i don't want to just say "O well everyone makes mistakes" I want to say lord minimize my mistakes and make me whole and holy so i can live CHRIST LIKE life lord i may never be you or what i think you want me to be but i do want to be what you have me destine to be and if thats someone greeting people by the door of an church let it be to glorify you Jesus pleas forgive me and let me just get away from all this let me say your name and just worship you in and out of church near and away from my friends Lord I may never have the right intentions but let me please have the right heart and change my motive cause I have been trying to live this christian like the way i design it when I was suppose to make you take control I am officially through trying to be a christian Lord take control i can't fake any longer.... Hey I have a confession i don’t know what I’m about to say is just to have a clear conscious of all my wrong doing or to just justify my actions.I have been raised in a christian home all my life and seen what a real christian lifestyle suppose to be but yet I just did not consider how important of living a holy lifestyle truly is. I thought i have been getting closer to God but the closer i get the more i realize that the quicker i fall. Just a couple of weeks ago my church had a revival and yea i was one of those christian singing alone, crying, carrying the bible in one hands while waving the other.I honestly believed that I was on my way to a pure and holy life when one day i get a call from a boy and he ask me if he can see me and like any hopeless girl i said yes although we may never keep our half of the bargain Jesus still does. I wanted this guy for the longest and now he asking me to hang out i was trilled but when he started to touch me and climb on me this is not what i wanted to happen suddenly a knock from a door just stop everything and there i was in the bathroom looking at the mirror like you weak little girl only if God wasn’t here you would have been so far in the sin.But God always have a way of showing you out of a sin, its up to us to actually take advantage of it. SO i Repent of my sins and was like this is the last time i will ever do anything to hurt God. The following week my friend ask me to go to a birthday weekend trip and yea neither of my friends are what you would say are “Christians” so i told my self i will go but i will try to act like a christian at all time to try to be the light for my friends yea yea yea that didn’t work out i was probably the worst one at that party yep i think i was…AND now Im just thinking to myself that I am not as strong as I thought I was I am WEAK, CONFUSED,AND YEA A FAKE CHRISTIAN!

The moral of the story is that i will Probably never be the Perfect Christian but as i grow up and see what my flaws are and how many imperfection i really have i don’t want to just say “O well everyone makes mistakes” I want to say lord minimize my mistakes and make me whole and holy so i can live CHRIST LIKE life lord i may never be you or what i think you want me to be but i do want to be what you have me destine to be and if thats someone greeting people by the door of an church let it be to glorify you Jesus pleas forgive me and let me just get away from all this let me say your name and just worship you in and out of church near and away from my friends Lord I may never have the right intentions but let me please have the right heart and change my motive cause I have been trying to live this christian like the way i design it when I was suppose to make you take control I am officially through trying to be a christian Lord take control i can’t fake any longer….

]]> Comment on Fake Christians by Noni http://j2nice78.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/fake-christians/#comment-426 Noni Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:34:40 +0000 http://j2nice78.wordpress.com/?p=28#comment-426 Fake Christians, irritate me and I knew alot in christian boarding school, which kept me from wanting to be one, until God himself showed me who He truly is. I looked back over the years and realized that He had been with me through all the turmoil in my young life, even though I rejected Him after going down to the altar. No one bothered to disciple me or helped to unravel my grave clothes as we are told to do by Jesus himself. I went YEARS BEFORE I RECIEVED THE HOLY SPIRIT and that didnt happen until I dealt with all the unforgiveness left in my heart. All I got was judgement because I enjoyed wearing jeans, and playing music on my guitar, so church was not something I enjoyed at all. Once born again I had a huge desire for discipleship and joined Evangelism Explosion to learn to share the faith God had given me. I realized he loved me regardless of what I wore or where I'd been. The church never did. Seems it's all about image, but the image fakes display is what keeps people from coming to the real Jesus. We should be ashamed to claim we know Him when we refuse to love others. But, instead we just go about our little games like God's not even watching. I met Him in my bed room, with no one else around after two very unexplainable near death experiences that made me realize He never left me or forsook me. Once I started going to church I found that nothing was different from before. It was very dissapointing to find that very few of the "Christians" there actually knew Him. They hated my joy that for the first time in my life I'd found. But that just catapulted me into standing stronger with passion for Him. Regardless of the cynicism..why do people go to church if they dont even believe what God says? The boarding school left the Holy Spirit out of the equation and even went as far as to take Acts out of the Bible! But boy could they judge! It's taken years to learn that God really does love me! He loves you too, in case you were wondering. Lets not fake it till we make it, lets love Jesus and one another just as we are, and do take the time to unravel, in truth, with love, the grave clothes on a newly born again child of God who wants to grow. Cant set free someone who claims to have no imperfection, but oh what love and time can do for an honest heart. Uh-oh....Im preachin' again. Fake Christians, irritate me and I knew alot in christian boarding school, which kept me from wanting to be one, until God himself showed me who He truly is. I looked back over the years and realized that He had been with me through all the turmoil in my young life, even though I rejected Him after going down to the altar. No one bothered to disciple me or helped to unravel my grave clothes as we are told to do by Jesus himself. I went YEARS BEFORE I RECIEVED THE HOLY SPIRIT and that didnt happen until I dealt with all the unforgiveness left in my heart. All I got was judgement because I enjoyed wearing jeans, and playing music on my guitar, so church was not something I enjoyed at all. Once born again I had a huge desire for discipleship and joined Evangelism Explosion to learn to share the faith God had given me. I realized he loved me regardless of what I wore or where I’d been. The church never did. Seems it’s all about image, but the image fakes display is what keeps people from coming to the real Jesus. We should be ashamed to claim we know Him when we refuse to love others. But, instead we just go about our little games like God’s not even watching. I met Him in my bed room, with no one else around after two very unexplainable near death experiences that made me realize He never left me or forsook me. Once I started going to church I found that nothing was different from before. It was very dissapointing to find that very few of the “Christians” there actually knew Him. They hated my joy that for the first time in my life I’d found. But that just catapulted me into standing stronger with passion for Him. Regardless of the cynicism..why do people go to church if they dont even believe what God says? The boarding school left the Holy Spirit out of the equation and even went as far as to take Acts out of the Bible! But boy could they judge! It’s taken years to learn that God really does love me! He loves you too, in case you were wondering. Lets not fake it till we make it, lets love Jesus and one another just as we are, and do take the time to unravel, in truth, with love, the grave clothes on a newly born again child of God who wants to grow. Cant set free someone who claims to have no imperfection, but oh what love and time can do for an honest heart. Uh-oh….Im preachin’ again.

]]> Comment on Fake Christians by Raymond http://j2nice78.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/fake-christians/#comment-425 Raymond Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:33:31 +0000 http://j2nice78.wordpress.com/?p=28#comment-425 I too have found lots of problems within churches. I have been to many. I have learned that you will never find a perfect church, Christian, or human being here on Earth. Only God is perfect. We must remember to keep our focus on God and not the imperfections of the brothers, sisters, pastors etc. We must keep in mind that Christians are merely "sinners saved by grace", they are not perfect. Of course, they should strive to be, but only the Holy Spirit can change us from within. Remember that it takes time for a conversion of heart and a renewing of the mind. These are things we strive for, but do not judge one another. Just make sure that your walk is right before God and pray for those within the church who need conversion. I happen to go to a very spirit filled church where the music is jumping and the pastor gets the congregation all fired-up. I don't agree with his persuasion tithing message: Micah 3:8-10 every Wednesday and Sunday, but I like the fact that they reach out to many lost souls--something that alot of churches don't do. They go out into the worst neighborhoods and witness to the lost, homeless, prostitutes, drug dealers, addicts. I mean, these people are radical, but even so, there are many who have not yet had a conversion. You find that everywhere. When it comes down to it, the only thing we can worry about or control is our OWN walk, not everybody elses. I too have found lots of problems within churches. I have been to many. I have learned that you will never find a perfect church, Christian, or human being here on Earth. Only God is perfect. We must remember to keep our focus on God and not the imperfections of the brothers, sisters, pastors etc. We must keep in mind that Christians are merely “sinners saved by grace”, they are not perfect. Of course, they should strive to be, but only the Holy Spirit can change us from within. Remember that it takes time for a conversion of heart and a renewing of the mind. These are things we strive for, but do not judge one another. Just make sure that your walk is right before God and pray for those within the church who need conversion. I happen to go to a very spirit filled church where the music is jumping and the pastor gets the congregation all fired-up. I don’t agree with his persuasion tithing message: Micah 3:8-10 every Wednesday and Sunday, but I like the fact that they reach out to many lost souls–something that alot of churches don’t do. They go out into the worst neighborhoods and witness to the lost, homeless, prostitutes, drug dealers, addicts. I mean, these people are radical, but even so, there are many who have not yet had a conversion. You find that everywhere. When it comes down to it, the only thing we can worry about or control is our OWN walk, not everybody elses.

]]> Comment on Fake Christians by Josh http://j2nice78.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/fake-christians/#comment-424 Josh Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:59:30 +0000 http://j2nice78.wordpress.com/?p=28#comment-424 I have a question ! Why in my life - events happen days weeks or hours , happen after I think it ? Im a christian but can't understand why . God trying to say I have a gift ? Or is God trying to show me evidence of his power ? I have a question ! Why in my life – events happen days weeks or hours , happen after I think it ? Im a christian but can’t understand why . God trying to say I have a gift ? Or is God trying to show me evidence of his power ?

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