I just went to church again, and a third of the way through the service, I'm wondering what I'm doing.
The point where I wanted to run, was right after the singing. The pastor walked around the room, and put his hand on the forehead of those who were praying (especially those who were crying) and shouted again and again ¡Ahora! (Now!) until the person cried even more and collapsed onto their seat/ground.
When he made his way back on stage to pray, prayer consisted of music in the background, people praying out loud all around, and the pastor saying things like Ahora es tu tiempo Dios, (It is your time now Lord) Si Si Dios, (Yes Yes Lord). I think prayer should just be talking intelligibly to God. But all the noise made it really difficult for me to pray - I couldn't even hear myself think.
As to the sermon, I couldn't figure out if I agreed with what he said or not; since I guessed half of what he said.
I'll try and make it to their bible studies instead, which are on Friday nights. There really is no other (protestant) church that I know of here, and the main thing I really miss, is the teaching and the church fellowship with people. It would be easier to understand what they believe in a discussion context, and work something out from there.
I really really miss my church and the people now =(
woahhhhhh that sounds freaky....
ReplyDeleteokai maybe try and find another church?
i wonder if it's like cult... or like JCLS??
are there any societies at ya uni? maybe there's like small groups or soemthing? or go for a wander and see if ya can find another one?
be strong angie! trust in God and pray!
Whats JCLS??
ReplyDeleteI'm really not sure whats at uni - I've only looked on the noticeboard. This city is dominated by catholic churches, and the Opus Dei... It's a more radical "branch" off the catholic church. One of my friends here says you need links to the Opus Dei to do anything here. She could also just be saying that to scare me. However, it does run the private uni...
I'm not finding a lot of -protestant churches, maybe due to Spain's catholic background and my lack of knowledge.
But I guess this is mission ground for me >< I've been listening to online sermons to substitute for sermons at church. They've been pretty good so far ^^