The story is told of a family who constantly complained about the manner in which church services were conducted. The father complained about the long sermon; the daughter complained about how dull the announcements were; the mother griped about the song leader who sang the songs too slow or not fast enough, and about selecting songs she wasn’t familiar with.<\/p>\n
However, their young son correctly observed: “I thought it was a pretty good service, considering that all we put in was a dollar!”<\/p>\n
Brethren, when we leave the church building complaining about the less-than-perfect service, maybe it’s time to examine the motives and intent of our heart<\/strong> (1 Corinthians 11:28; 2 Corinthians 13:5; cf. 1 John 3:20-21). Yes, we understand that any church service will have its weak points simply because we, as human beings, are weak and do make mistakes. But consider the following observation:<\/p>\n Leaving a worship service without being blessed is similar to going into Walmart where hundreds of thousands of dollars of merchandise are displayed, and then coming out with a dollar item. Folks, we come out with exactly what we went in to get<\/strong> no more no less.<\/p>\n When we go into a worship service with a humble and submissive attitude we’ll likely receive an overflow of blessings from God (Malachi 3:10). But we’re bound to leave empty if we entered the service with a critical attitude with the idea of merely being a spectator rather than being an active participant<\/strong>.<\/p>\n In our worship to God, we will always receive abundant [full] blessings from Him if we’ll have the attitude of the Psalmist:<\/p>\n “I was glad when they said to me, Let us go into the house of the Lord<\/strong>” (Psalm 122:1).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Let us observe the contrast of attitudes recorded in Acts 13:44-52), resulting in the Jews going away empty<\/strong> and the Gentiles going away full<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Brethren, we can go away from a worship service either full or empty it’s all up to us!<\/strong><\/p>\n Related Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n The story is told of a family who constantly complained about the manner in which church services were conducted. The father complained about the long sermon; the daughter complained about how dull the announcements were; the mother griped about the song leader who sang the songs too slow or not fast enough, and about selecting … Continue reading “Going Away Full Or Empty \u2014 It's All Up To Us – Bible study”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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