The Fear Inspiring Yankee God

[rockytopva]

I was born in North Carolina on a Marine Corp base and traveled the US. As a pre-teen we moved to the North where I was brought up in a cold, dull, dry, Protestant church and considered myself an Agnostic Atheist, but went to church for fear of eternity. I would look out at the winter Michigan tundra and wonder what was more dead and lifeless... The winter scenery out the windows or the church I was in. The At seventeen I moved here to Virginia staying at my grandmother's, and attending the local Pentecostal Holiness church. My old Pentecostal Holiness pastor was an old evangelist turned pastor. He really knew how to get wonderful evangelist for revival. One summer day as a teenager I was reading Nikki Cruze's Run Baby Run after a wonderful revival and I heard a voice speaking to the heart..."Put the book down" Not realizing what was happening I continued to read. I was sleeping next to an open outside door and the kady-dids were singing their praises to God very loudly. The voice spoke again... "Put the book down!" I then put the book down and heard the voice speak yet again... "Where is all the strife, hatred, and bad feelings?" I examined the heart to find nothing there but pure beauty. I thought to myself, "Oh my! I got exactly what those people got!"

And an example of the Southern church service...

 

[Aunty Jane]

I can’t imagine Jesus or his apostles preaching like that....Jesus spoke quietly and calmly to his audience, teaching them with illustrations, not with interjections from himself or his audience.....not whipping up their emotions with shouting displays of religious fervour....it was the Pharisees who liked to display their “religiousness”, but the calm appeal of the Christ was meant to touch an obedient heart that would come to him in the same humble spirit....not based on pure emotion with equally emotive music playing in the background.....sorry, but to me this is a world away from original Christianity.

Emotions are transient and easily awakened.....Knowledge is the genuine basis for the love of God and the motivating force in one’s everyday life. Truly getting to “know the only true God” and “the one he sent, Jesus Christ” is the only way to salvation (John 17:3) We are to base our faith on what we know....not just what we feel.
These people need to keep getting whipped up every week, in order to maintain the emotion that led them there.

Not a “Christianity” that I recognise.....

 

[Jack]

Millions make an eternally mistake of going to church instead of staying home and reading the Bible. JW's may be the worst. SAD!!!

 

[Jack]

Not a “Christianity” that I recognise.....

Of course not, JW's don't even recognize Jesus / God of the Bible. They just ATTACK the Bible like Satan! Even their own JW bible!