We attend church every Sunday to listen to the good news from the bible. For me, I want such activity to be enticing and engaging. I like a sermon to be powerful that it makes you shout – the ones that our grandparents talked about. I thought at first that they no longer exist, but they still do and let me tell you where you can find great preachers just like that.
As old books are the best to read, old wines to drink…old style sermon is also the best to listen to. In the south where I live, great old style of preaching is still around. Only that you got to look hard to find a good church like that. What I did is that I looked for a church that has something that I like – a choir. A choir is important to me because I wanted to get involved in the choir. I don’t want to be just a mere spectator or listener. So if you are looking for some good old Baptist sermons, then you must keep looking and visiting churches that are Baptist for they stick to the KJV bible. You will have a very good chance to find that good old preaching if you go to independent baptist church.
The bible is the word of God and in the independent baptist church, God’s word is kept. It is not changed just because it is popular to some group of members. The church is the temple of God and it must not be like the world. The church must be different. It must be strong and stand firm on the word of God as how it is written in the bible. It should not easily sway towards wherever the wind is blowing.
Moreover, we shouldn’t listen to music from the world or put ourselves in places that would make God look bad. In the independent baptist church, the music you can hear is mostly southern gospel or bluegrass gospel music. Like I said, we prefer the old ways and once you listen to the good old baptist sermon, you will surely want to go back. God does not change and we should not change just because the young people don’t like it. The young folks need to learn it is about God. We don’t go to church to be entertained or hear a Christian rock concert.
For me listening to the word of God becomes a way of life to live for the Lord that is great. Keeping the word of God as how it is written in the bible gives me inner peace and I got engrossed in listening to what is truly written.
