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.

The God-existence question: a little exchange.

I stumbled on a youtube comment that was questioning the existence of God and I tried to comment on the contrary.

Just some hours after, the same guy sends me a youtube mail asking me to seek mental help. He also add more youtube link to buttress his points

Religion is a mental disorder
Part 1 in a series, which argues that religion is a mental disorder.

Part 2: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Qd0qFSMm7oo

Part 3: http://youtube.com/watch?v=z9zuPTng2bc

Here is an excerpt from my reply:

I will take what you have said as an advice but for a while let me let in on some of my records.

I am a software developer with over 6 years of professional experience. I won awards in Mathematics and Chemistry days back when I was in school. I put a lot of problem solving and logical skills in doing my jobs and except for privacy policy, I would have shown you some of my online work. I am very proud of them.

Although I don't ask God to do my job for me, I am wise enough to choose the CREATOR rather than some creations of his....

There has really been the question around me lately and I still wonder my many in this present day would hold tight this extreme falsehold and pretend as though they are really the elites of the society.

I hope to come up with a series of blog to prove my God is and why I believe the bible.

But it must be clear that no evidence could nullify the power of faith because like it is written - "Without faith is it is impossible to please God and he that must come to God must believe that He is and ......." Hebrew 11:6.

Have a great day