Last Sunday, my mother, sister, niece and nephew got together with some of their friends for fellowship. As they sat down, my nephew Jeshua, just started to sing a song unto the Lord, in a very carefree manner. But my mom stopped him and said, "wait! we need to start with prayer!" And after 'starting with prayer', they all sang some songs. Of course they sang Jeshua's song as well. Then, when asked if anyone needs prayer, Jeshua, while lying on the floor and coloring, prayed a beautiful prayer unto the Lord.
I took that as a cue to share that the Kingdom of God belongs to such as Jeshua. For Jesus said, "Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven." I said my piece as to why it is not important to have 'opening prayer' and 'benedictions'. How these are hangovers from the religion of Christianity, which we had once embraced. And that all we need to do is draw unto Him with the purity of heart of a child. A child who does not understand organizational structures or program orders.
As I was sharing this, my sister asked, "But, what about order? The Bible says that we should have order in everything that we do." How misused is this word? What was Paul saying when he said, "Let all things be done decently and in order"? When we read the passage of 1 Corinthians 14 in context, we will see that he does not speak about programmatic order. Instead he speaks about order, as in when a family gets together. When we get together with our family, do we talk when someone else is talking? Wouldn't that be considered rude? When a family comes together, we all take our turn in communicating our piece, lest chaos ensues, and the whole purpose of coming together is lost. This was exactly what paul was communicating. WAIT FOR YOUR TURN. How religion has twisted something as simple as this to suit its machinery of smooth operation is mind boggling.
Thoughts: Ravi Philemon
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