The Highway Forums General Discussion Open Forum Emmaus

Okay... remember now, you did ask what people thought of Emmaus! <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

1) Administering the Lord's Supper outside of the Church is definitely a <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/nono.gif" alt="" />! The Lord's Supper was given for the Church and to be administered by its ordained officers only to the people of God when they gather together.

2) Praise choruses, hugging, etc., is definitely something I find unacceptable. It's the typical contemporary, "schmoozy, touchy, feely, etc." pop-psychology fad that has infected the churches in its attempt to "appeal" to and "attract" the world, by returning to and becoming like the world. Sorry, but I reject all such pragmatic assimilations of worldliness. (1Jh 2:15-17)

3) Men cannot plan "revival" or "renewal", as that is the sovereign work of the Holy Spirit who brings to pass that which the Father has foreordained in eternity. However, we can and should pray that God would bring revival to the Church. What men must do is to be faithful in preaching the Word, in and out of season. It is in the preaching and teaching of sound biblical doctrine that will move men from their complacency, should the Lord will. (Rom 1:16; 1Tim 1:3; 4:16; 2Tim 3:16; 2Tim 4:2; et al) It isn't the "delivery" which will move men, but the Truth which will set them free (Jh 8:32); free from the sins of complacency, indolence, sloth, worldliness and all such hindrances. But, if one is only a Christian by profession and not by possession, then no amount of para-church programs is going to have any effect on one's soul. It will simply encourage and solidify their hollow "churchianity" which only leads to eternal death.

In His Grace,