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A warm room… + do Christians really sing lies?
Hey there…
Well, today has been an interesting one so far… I woke up, got out of bed, went to take a shower and found out we had no hot water, then walked around our freezing house, and figured I may as well finish that book that I’m orating for someone. It was then that I walked into the studio room and was relieved to find out that it is very warm in here. I wondered why, because it’s cold outside, and the rest of the house is cold.. we don’t have our furnace running because it hasn’t gotten this cold yet, but this room is so warm that some people would be quite uncomfortable in here. I soon figured out what the cause was, one of the walls of this room is mostly a big sliding window that faces where the sun rises. It’s sort of a greenhouse effect on the room, and it is very nice… I just want to sit up here, so I am.
We have these young men’s Bible Study/get together and talk and hangout things on Saturday nights(by the way, anyone is welcome to come out.) We talk about lots of things, different topics that relate to the Bible, things we struggle with like depression, pride, lust, feeling like we always mess up, our favorite type of pizza… etc 
. Well, this most recent Saturday Mike was talking about how he feels like that thing people say, “Christians don’t tell lies, they only sing them” is always true about him. Manny said the he felt the same way along with one of the other guys. If you have never heard the phrase before, allow me to elaborate… allot of the popular worship songs out there today, “all I want is you” are being sung by many Christians… and many times a young man will be singing one of these songs “You’re all I want” “Take me into the Holy of Holies…” etc. and at the same time checking out some girl down the isle. That’s not worship… your heart is not truly fixed on God. Now this is the problem, how do we know if our heart is truly fixed on God or not? Many times during worship some of us spend the whole time trying to figure out if we are truly worshiping or not, when we sing a line from a song we stop and diagnose our entire life to see if every word lines up with it… guys, that’s not worship either. Read more