Are We An "Entertainment" Focused Society?

[MrsMcD]

Originally Posted by Digging4Truth

I think revival attendance has less to do with an entertainment society and more to do with the fact that people are tired & worn out mentally, physically & emotionally.

You are just making too much sense now!

[Ron]

Originally Posted by Daniel Alicea

Since when has being the church just been about how many church functions you attend ... not saying they're not important ... but we're the church ... everywhere.

It doesn't.

But check attendance at prayer meetings or outreach and then check vieo rentals, nintendo sales, neilson ratings.

[Digging4Truth]

Originally Posted by Ron

That is a sad statement-but you are right.

It really bear some similarity to "coming down" from a drug.

It is an overwhelming experience to find themselves withdrawing from the constant mental stimulation.

I know I sound like an old geezer but who knows how to just sit on the porch these days and look at all God has done.

I will make this observation as well...

Those who are constantly up at the church 24/7 and griping about those who are doing the same...

They may be suffering from the same symptoms... they just get their "fix" doing stuff (and dreaming up stuff for others to do) at the church house.

[Digging4Truth]

Originally Posted by Ron

It doesn't.

But check attendance at prayer meetings or outreach and then check vieo rentals, nintendo sales, neilson ratings.

The last prayer meeting I attended the preacher was throwing chairs because he wasn't happy with the way people were praying.

Sometimes folks miss for a different reason too.

[Esther]

Originally Posted by Digging4Truth

It really bear some similarity to "coming down" from a drug.

It is an overwhelming experience to find themselves withdrawing from the constant mental stimulation.

I know I sound like an old geezer but who knows how to just sit on the porch these days and look at all God has done.
I will make this observation as well...

Those who are constantly up at the church 24/7 and griping about those who are doing the same...

They may be suffering from the same symptoms... they just get their "fix" doing stuff (and dreaming up stuff for others to do) at the church house.

I do, I do, pick me!!! I love to sit in the swing and watch the world go by........slowly.

[Ron]

Originally Posted by Digging4Truth

In our family... My wife and I get up around 6:30am. One of us starts supper immediately after work and the other gets in about the time supper is ready (6:30pm-7:00pm usually). By the time we finish eating supper with the family it is time for people to start getting baths, the kitchen has to be cleaned and by the time you get all of that done it is 9:30 or 10pm.

Now it is time to go to bed so you can start the whole process over at 6:30 again the next morning.

People are tired.

I can agree with you on that D4T.
Though I have heard it from old timers about growing up in the fifties and sixties that they went to school, had band/Piano practice, homework, revival meetings that lasted 7 days straight at times.
And yet they still got up to work the next day, and the kids went to school.

What has changed?

I ask that not to provoke you but to somehow find an answer.

[Digging4Truth]

Originally Posted by Esther

I do, I do, pick me!!! I love to sit in the swing and watch the world go by........slowly.

Me too... and I get my kids out there with me sometimes and introduce them to the beauty of it all.

[Ron]

Originally Posted by Digging4Truth

It really bear some similarity to "coming down" from a drug.

It is an overwhelming experience to find themselves withdrawing from the constant mental stimulation.

I know I sound like an old geezer but who knows how to just sit on the porch these days and look at all God has done.

I will make this observation as well...

Those who are constantly up at the church 24/7 and griping about those who are doing the same...

They may be suffering from the same symptoms... they just get their "fix" doing stuff (and dreaming up stuff for others to do) at the church house.

I am telling on my age too.
I enjoy sitting at the park with my wife watching our kids play and or playing with them.

[Ron]

Originally Posted by Digging4Truth

The last prayer meeting I attended the preacher was throwing chairs because he wasn't happy with the way people were praying.

Sometimes folks miss for a different reason too.

Oh my. That is a different story.

[Ron]

Originally Posted by Esther

I do, I do, pick me!!! I love to sit in the swing and watch the world go by........slowly.

I hear ya.