the following is dedicated to tuna:

winterfest.

what to say about it.
it was totally not what i expected it to be.

i don't know if its a mental block, or if what i'm thinking is true, but for some reason, the past few big worship conferences i have gone to i have been disappointed by the fact i feel like it has been more of a putting on a show or plugging in different orginizations and things.

they would stop praise and worship to do random things like tell us to text jesus to a certain number and save and get free music on our phones and such.

just alot of stuff they did was unnecessary during a time of worship.

they really didn't let the Holy Spirit do his thing because they were more worried about production more than the encounter.

i read a quote once from a college bible teacher:
“Christianity started in Palestine as a fellowship; it moved to Greece and became a philosophy; it moved to Italy and became an institution; it moved to Europe and became a culture; it then came to America and became an enterprise."

when the church begins to make it's business more important than reaching out to communities and connecting with God, a huge problem occurs.

think of it this way.

the church is the body of Christ, and when the church becomes more focused on making profit than making belivers, it becomes a business. "selling church"

when a body is sold, it is called prostitution.

so when we as a body begin to focus on ourselves, making money even if it is for the church, more than reaching out to others we are basically, pardon my language, whoring out the body of Christ, and making it something that is completely and literally unholy in any way you look at it.

can we not worry about how much money we are making, or advertising, or if we have the largest production with the most people and coolest bands and instead worry about reaching out to God, and having a true, intimate worship experience?

please?