Saturday, November 10, 2007

I've been doing a lot of thinking about my faith recently. I grew up going to different churches. The first church I went to is where I "experienced" God, where I could feel God changing my life and I knew he was there. We had that Holy Spirit felly type thing, and I can tell you it was authentic to the core. Then as I moved on to another church, there were those days at church when you could feel the Holy Spirit.

Somehow, someway, this is where things began to change and I saw reality for the first time. There would be people involved in ministry there that you knew where not living the life, sleeping around then singing that God is King on Sunday in front of people. There were many prophets who came in, robbing these people. Preachers with big pimp suits and in hindsight, they really never brought to closer to God except that you were praying how you were going to get back the money you just gave to the preacher that you needed to pay your bills.

I saw people manipulate others. I saw lazy people asking for prayer but would not work. And I learned that at a mostly Mexican church that worship can be led by the bass guitar.