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Do you have routine habits of faith? Are you made proficient in your faith by setting aside certain times each day to regularly read, pray, or just contemplate God, and Jesus? If not, and you are just depending on random thoughts, or going to church once or twice a week, then you are missing out on a wonderful growing relationship.
So often we think that there is but one way that men are called, and that God has a set process for leading us to Him. We somehow get in our minds that there is only one way to serve God, and that if we don’t fit into the biblical walk exhibited by one of the twelve apostles then we are not correct in our faith. In fact, we are all unique and so is our relationship with God through Jesus Christ.
Every Church employs liturgy, even if they don’t call it that. We go through our liturgical rites and rituals as we worship, and many of them remind us of the more important things of Christian faith, but in the end they are just empty actions without the Holy Spirit helping us to infuse them with the blood and life of Christ. What is communion if we can’t remember Jesus in it, ingesting His body and drinking His blood as we partake of the elements? What is baptism but a refreshing dip without the Holy Spirit opening our eyes to the truth of Jesus, and being born again? If our liturgical actions become performa, and don’t include Jesus then they are nothing but dead works.
Are we enamored with the pomp and circumstance within our church? Do we make the liturgy we follow more important than the Word of God, or the gospel of Jesus Christ? Sometimes we lose sight of who we really worship as the procession of priests enters the sanctuary, the elements of communion are doled out as if they were a reward, or in some churches, the choir and performers become the focal point of the service. Let’s step back from what we have “always done”, and refocus our praise and worship on God and Jesus alone.