jonathanbrickman0000
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Musica miseriblia, or how to identify a church whose leadership despises the Comforter, who is our God in this world today.
"Musica miseriblia" is a word invented to describe one major symptom. It is present to varying extents in many churches, and it takes many forms.
But always, it is the music desired and most acceptable to the leadership of a church. It is their favorite. It crosses off everything on their agenda. It is their demand, and anything else is blocked out. But it feeds the congregation little if at all, in that Comforter whom Christ the Lord sent as our God in this world today.
The Comforter desires us to learn, know, and experience compassion and empathy for those who suffer heavy burdens, the drive of motivation to seek Him for freedom from heavy burdens, and the joy of the life, the power, and the presence of God. This is directly opposite to the pride, self-satisfaction, and church-worship of musica miseriblia. That music exists to help extinguish the passion and excitement for, the life in, that which Christ the Lord has said, done, and discussed. He is not only the resurrection: He is the life. Life is always good; in our lifetimes we will encounter much which is not good, but life is always good, and death is a sad evil that God has not yet joined with His stated doom of this world. Death is no part of life, and we of the God who is Life do not accept it as part of Him.
Many who rail and ride against the contents of the above paragraph, try hard to buddy-buddy with forms of death, in one way or another. But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit of God, is not idle. There were and are many churches who curse everyone who sings with Him in energy and purpose, or who dances, or who shouts with joy. And then He motivates some in and related to those churches, to do the opposite, in His name. One day, He will destroy this world, and only those who do not have joy in forms of death, will remain, and He will see to it that we all live.
"Musica miseriblia" is a word invented to describe one major symptom. It is present to varying extents in many churches, and it takes many forms.
But always, it is the music desired and most acceptable to the leadership of a church. It is their favorite. It crosses off everything on their agenda. It is their demand, and anything else is blocked out. But it feeds the congregation little if at all, in that Comforter whom Christ the Lord sent as our God in this world today.
The Comforter desires us to learn, know, and experience compassion and empathy for those who suffer heavy burdens, the drive of motivation to seek Him for freedom from heavy burdens, and the joy of the life, the power, and the presence of God. This is directly opposite to the pride, self-satisfaction, and church-worship of musica miseriblia. That music exists to help extinguish the passion and excitement for, the life in, that which Christ the Lord has said, done, and discussed. He is not only the resurrection: He is the life. Life is always good; in our lifetimes we will encounter much which is not good, but life is always good, and death is a sad evil that God has not yet joined with His stated doom of this world. Death is no part of life, and we of the God who is Life do not accept it as part of Him.
Many who rail and ride against the contents of the above paragraph, try hard to buddy-buddy with forms of death, in one way or another. But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit of God, is not idle. There were and are many churches who curse everyone who sings with Him in energy and purpose, or who dances, or who shouts with joy. And then He motivates some in and related to those churches, to do the opposite, in His name. One day, He will destroy this world, and only those who do not have joy in forms of death, will remain, and He will see to it that we all live.
