Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.
Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
We were so fundamental that almost everything had been stripped away from the place of worship. Think of the role words can play, when all other enticements and sensual attractions are gone.
Every minister knows it's harder to get the guys to church than the women. We ought to be asking why this is.
It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.
Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.
To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.
In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.
I know that those who esteem these little organised associations to be the churches of God, see nothing but mere meetings of men in every other gathering of God's children.
What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave his perishable substance to save himself from the dark torments of purgatory.