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Post by déjà vu on Oct 25, 2014 21:19:42 GMT -5
At gospel meeting did you feel uplifted or discouraged ?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2014 21:45:43 GMT -5
At gospel meeting did you feel uplifted or discouraged ? at Gospel meetings i always feel uplifted if one goes with the attitude i want to hear Gods word God will give it to them
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Post by bubbles on Oct 26, 2014 1:39:41 GMT -5
I did most of the time.
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Post by curlywurlysammagee on Oct 26, 2014 2:39:56 GMT -5
I certainly was not uplifted, nor discouraged. I think another option could be disillusioned. The gospel I was hearing did not match what I was reading. The lives did not match what I was reading.
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Post by Mary on Oct 26, 2014 2:44:44 GMT -5
I didn't realise what I was missing until I heard worldly preachers. Then there was no going back.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2014 2:56:25 GMT -5
I didn't realise what I was missing until I heard worldly preachers. Then there was no going back. Maybe you might like to share what was and is encouraging you have heard from your ministers
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Post by Mary on Oct 26, 2014 3:11:49 GMT -5
They applied scripture to our daily lives. And everything was pointed to Jesus. Purely focused on Jesus and that Jesus alone saves. I also noticed that the words they used were in the Bible, unlike words like professing, workers, meeting. The church was based on scripture, they had pastors, teachers, evangelists, missionaries (modern day word for apostles) prayer for the sick, all which were in the Bible. The people in churches had love, care, compassion for the hurting, poor and sick. Their lives spoke volumes. The singing was true worship. Eyes and hands lifted upwards. What they preached was meat, not milk which we had been used to. Like others have said before, couldn't get enough, was starved spiritually in meetings.
Thanks for asking....
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2014 4:17:11 GMT -5
They applied scripture to our daily lives. And everything was pointed to Jesus. Purely focused on Jesus and that Jesus alone saves. I also noticed that the words they used were in the Bible, unlike words like professing, workers, meeting. The church was based on scripture, they had pastors, teachers, evangelists, missionaries (modern day word for apostles) prayer for the sick, all which were in the Bible. The people in churches had love, care, compassion for the hurting, poor and sick. Their lives spoke volumes. The singing was true worship. Eyes and hands lifted upwards. What they preached was meat, not milk which we had been used to. Like others have said before, couldn't get enough, was starved spiritually in meetings. Thanks for asking.... looks like a mirror of what i heard about tonight
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2014 5:14:35 GMT -5
As I have always understood it, gospel meetings were not held to uplift or discourage people already professing, people already professing were there to give encouragement and support to the workers, sing hymns and bring along friends and acquaintances. Yes some gospel meetings were spiritually enlightening and uplifting, but to be honest, some were not. It all depended on the experiences of the workers and their abilities to preach convincingly to an audience, and hold their attention. I had invited friends in the past who had commented afterwards of the dullness of the meeting, the poor singing, not lively, no music to the ears as they had been accustomed to in other churches. They were mostly appreciative of the words of the hymns. Some took offence at some things that were said, like we are the only true way. A Pastor and his wife who attended the meeting , were most indignant about that and confronted me with it outside after the meeting, I tried to give my interpretation, but fortunately for me, a sister worker came out so I passed it over to her to deal with and she told them to pray hard about it and that God would reveal it to them. They never came back. As a kid I loved attending gospel meetings and very often we walked long distances to gospel meetings and I can still remember some of those older workers preachings and teachings: Willie Donaldson, Mr. Ricks, Mr. McNabb, Miss Flowers, and Miss Rowe, to mention a few..
If you were brought up in the F&W's culture you developed an appreciation for meetings including gospel meetings, if you were not brought up in the fellowship there would probably be a different feeling, which is understandable and has much to do with nurturing. I suppose the same goes for other churches as well.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2014 10:07:27 GMT -5
At gospel meeting did you feel uplifted or discouraged ? uplifted
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Post by snow on Oct 26, 2014 15:27:30 GMT -5
I found them painful at first. I usually left with a sore behind because I had a hard time sitting still.
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Post by curlywurlysammagee on Oct 26, 2014 20:21:58 GMT -5
How about some of the more weird stuff that was preached. One I recall when I was young was Don't vote for the Labour Party as we will end up a communist country.
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Post by snow on Oct 26, 2014 20:32:14 GMT -5
I found them painful at first. I usually left with a sore behind because I had a hard time sitting still. I try to bring seat cushions for conventions, just incase we have some of those mono tone workers, going nowhere with their message. I don't think a cushion would have helped me Nathan. I got spanked a lot. I would have been better off napping but I never was one to go to sleep easily.
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Post by Mary on Oct 26, 2014 20:37:47 GMT -5
Nathan, they preach Jesus not a ministry. If they did I would be out of there in a hurry. Like most churches we do have missionaries who give up all to go over seas to preach the Gospel. Missionaries is the word for modern day apostles. We also as a church have a team that goes overseas every year or two to offer support and encouragement to existing churches in Asia and the South Pacific. This is what I saw the apostles do in areas where they were established churches, support and encourage the church. We believe in equipping the people of the culture to minister to their people. These teams from church consist of about 8 people and go to China, India, The Pacific Islands, and other Asian countries for a few weeks then return like the 70 did. They are ordinary people like me and you, not missionaries.
Again it is about equipping and supporting the ministries in these countries.
We have pastors, teaches, evangelists, missionaries (apostles) and so on in the church like the Bible says. They are not all just called workers and all do the same function. They all have different functions. We preach what the Bible says, we preach The Gospel which is Jesus, not a ministry.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2014 21:32:29 GMT -5
How about some of the more weird stuff that was preached. One I recall when I was young was Don't vote for the Labour Party as we will end up a communist country. funnily enuf a good majority did
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2014 21:32:56 GMT -5
How about some of the more weird stuff that was preached. One I recall when I was young was Don't vote for the Labour Party as we will end up a communist country. seems unusual but it sounds like good advice
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Post by BobWilliston on Oct 26, 2014 23:20:11 GMT -5
At gospel meeting did you feel uplifted or discouraged ? Sometimes yes, sometimes no. I think I found them more enlightening than uplifting -- I guess it depends on what one is looking for. I don't recall looking for much uplifting.
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Post by BobWilliston on Oct 26, 2014 23:22:00 GMT -5
How about some of the more weird stuff that was preached. One I recall when I was young was Don't vote for the Labour Party as we will end up a communist country. seems unusual but it sounds like good advice Sounds pretty usual in my experience. Heard such stuff a few times.
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Post by Greg on Oct 27, 2014 0:46:36 GMT -5
At gospel meeting did you feel uplifted or discouraged ? How about you, W. Tell?
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Post by curlywurlysammagee on Oct 27, 2014 4:04:16 GMT -5
How about some of the more weird stuff that was preached. One I recall when I was young was Don't vote for the Labour Party as we will end up a communist country. funnily enuf a good majority did Virgo, are you saying a good majority of the friends voted labour? or a good majority of countries ended up communist? Just like to clarify that please.
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Post by gem2 on Oct 27, 2014 8:38:15 GMT -5
usually uplifted
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2014 8:56:42 GMT -5
How about some of the more weird stuff that was preached. One I recall when I was young was Don't vote for the Labour Party as we will end up a communist country. funnily enuf a good majority did Well did the warning come true? I wonder. In all my years in the fellowship, I personally have not heard any workers give advice on anything political, but that is not to say that they haven't. Anyway my understanding was that under a communist state there was little or no religious freedom to worship; at least that is how it was in the earlier days.
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Post by déjà vu on Oct 27, 2014 9:58:27 GMT -5
At gospel meeting did you feel uplifted or discouraged ? How about you, W. Tell? I iMO it has a lot to do with our state of mind even our attitude and this is true for every sermon we listen to . I hve been uplifted and at times cast down.
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Post by Tim Jones 'kyblue' on Oct 27, 2014 10:35:34 GMT -5
At gospel meeting did you feel uplifted or discouraged ? Usually discouraged, mainly at the futility of the situation. The folks would drag us kids to a meeting way out in the boonies where there were hardly any professing just to be more rears in seats - then the 'prospect' wouldn't show up for the entire mission. Then some workers would just have meetings for the sake of having meetings - no outside interest, no real reason to have them, just to get the 'faithful' together and take up more of our time at the same dirty city hall in a small burg. Depressing. Now, the message wasn't uplifting, but it didn't really do anything for me.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2014 23:25:12 GMT -5
funnily enuf a good majority did Virgo, are you saying a good majority of the friends voted labour? or a good majority of countries ended up communist? Just like to clarify that please. don't vote to me is to the individual not a country
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2014 23:26:27 GMT -5
funnily enuf a good majority did Well did the warning come true? I wonder. In all my years in the fellowship, I personally have not heard any workers give advice on anything political, but that is not to say that they haven't. Anyway my understanding was that under a communist state there was little or no religious freedom to worship; at least that is how it was in the earlier days. nah not here
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Post by Scott Ross on Oct 28, 2014 13:18:03 GMT -5
At gospel meeting did you feel uplifted or discouraged ? Neither. Gospel meetings for me were something that just happened a couple of times a week. As a kid, they were something that was endured and regular in my life. They were never something I looked forward to, and I really don't remember ever thinking of it as anything more than perhaps a weekly chore. The only gospel meetings I can say that I looked forward to attending were a few that I was invited to by Lyle Schober. I actually enjoyed them, and Lyle even picked a song that he knew was my favorite. I also enjoyed having dinner with Lyle and his companion after one of those gospel meetings, where the three of us enjoyed each other's company and talked about everything from the Viking football team (it was on the TV where we were eating), to CSA issues, to just any topic that came up in conversation. Somewhere here on the TMB is my account of that particular gospel meeting.
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Post by midwesterner on Dec 21, 2014 7:44:55 GMT -5
Seemed like the workers used alot of "fear tactics" in the gospel meetings back in the day.
Fear of being killed on the way home from gospel meeting after you had a chance to profess but didn't. Fear of a Communist take over, so read your Bible's and memorize as much as you can because the Bible is the second thing they will take from us after the guns. Fear of burning in your lusts if you didn't get married or go into the work at a young age. Fear of losing your salvation if you did not "tow the line". Fear of being kicked out of the Wednesday night Bible study if they found the "wrong" books in your home or a radio in your car. (1950's-1970's) Fear of the Lord coming back while you were sitting in a movie theater or in a bowling alley. Fear of never having meeting in your home if you didn't discipline your children and keep them on a short rope. Fear that you "rejected" Christ and hinder His work if you didn't take care of the workers. (open your home and wallets and give them the keys to your car when they ask.) Fear of using vain and repetitious words if your prayers are too long. Fear of open reprimand and being made to move to the front rows if you were caught sitting in the back row. Fear of having the workers in your home for extended periods of time for them to determine why you haven't been attending ALL the gospel meetings in your area. Fear of wondering if you put the T.V. in the closet when they come up to you after gospel meeting and say they are coming home with you since they don't have anywhere else to go that night. And so on......................... MW
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