The Danger of Crowd-Effect Safety

- Have you ever had your faith always rise high when in church or in the midst of believers and very low when you are alone?
- Is it harder enjoying personal worship more than corporate worship?
- Does your faith leap only when the preacher says something wonderful in contrast to anytime the word of God is laid before you?
- Do you seem to appreciate God's word more in church or when with other believers than when alone?
- Do you feel the spirit of prayer more when you are in a group more than when alone?
- Does your faith talk tougher when you are in a crowd and weak when faced with that situation in your room?

If the answer to any one of these questions is YES, you are not alone though it wasn't meant to be so. I call it the crowd-effect safety. I would prefer to talk about the solution than define it.

God intended every single believer to be as active individually as he would be when in fellowship with others. Each one of us is to be a living stone so that the entire house would be a living spiritual house (I Peter 2:5).

Psalms 104:4 say He (God) made his ministers flames of fire.

Let take a look at a perfect analogy with Samson in Judges 15:4-5. When he wanted to set an entire farm ablaze, he brought together 300 foxes by their tail, he set the tails ablaze, then let them all go alone.
What is the moral: Together we are a fire. Singularly, I am a fire. - This is God's desire.

Corporate fellowship has its place to keep the spiritual house alive but personal fellowship is excellent because each living stone must be living indeed.

Solution: Don't relegate the place of personal fellowship with God by the study of God's word and prayer, watching, worship, meditation and praise. Once you get started, corporate fellowship will begin to make so much sense and pleasure and your God will begin to feel closer.

No Matter how many people you have together, there will always be a time you will walk alone, face the mountain alone, hunger in the wilderness alone...so please strengthen those arms and knees so that we could stand in those times. And the strength you measure up within you will be all you have when the pastor, friend, mentor, parents, and help you thought you had are not to be found.