From Rational to Experiential

While the world is transitioning from modern era into post-modernity – the church seems to be stuck in yesterday’s reality.
The church would rather choose to talk about heaven, to have a discussion class about God, than engage in the Kingdom of Heaven and experience God first hand.
Modernism was all about questioning, discussing, doubting and reasoning. Thinking about food does not make one stuffed. Talking about water does not make one drenched and satisfied. God is orchestrating a new turn in human history when hungry and thirsty people crave an experience with God.
It is shocking to read results of recent poll where church-goers admit that 32% have never experienced God’s presence in worship. 44% have not experienced God’s presence for the whole year.
Yet the Biblical counsel stands ever true: faithful overcome the evil by “the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony!” (Rev.12:11) It is our personal experience, our personal encounter with God, made possible through the Blood of Jesus that makes us victorious, that makes us significant and worthy in this life-and-death battle.
As we move forward into this Postmodern Turn our church has to meet the “WOW” standard! Our preachers must stop “writing” sermons and begin to create total experiences. And in doing so we are recovering our ancient traditions. Apostle Paul once described the real church as a place where any new visitors would experience God in worship through testimony of believers, where God’s presence would be beyond questioning, where a newcomer would fall on his face and cry out “Truly God is among you!” (1st Corinthians 14:24-25)
So, let’s get out from the modern freezer governed by gods of reason and observation and let’s be warmed up by God’s Revelation and the Holy Spirit. Instead of figuring out what life’s all about – let’s experience what life is.
Expect our church’s Worship Experience to be the Real Experience. For our hope is not a theory, our love is not an assumption, and our faith is not a guess. We have Real Hope that burns within our hearts, Real Love that transforms our lives, Real Faith that reveals the unseen.