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Blogs > ICorinthians13 > GOD'S GALLERY


ICorinthians13 66F
726 posts
5/25/2008 4:08 pm
CHRISTIAN HEDONISM

The more I talk to the worship minister, the more I am convinced that being a worship minister is a hard row to hoe. He told me today of one church he was in, where, because he was so exuberant in his worship, the elders pulled him in and told him that he must be playing the music to show off, or just for the fun of it. They told him they didn't want him there any more because he was too into his music---of all things.
Scary.
I told him that was one of the reasons I had been holding back, I was afraid he would think I was just "staging", when really, I just love what I'm doing.
He said he heard me playing the piano before church, and thought to himself how much he could hear my love of God and music coming through. He told me never to worry. He believes in Christian hedonism.
WHAT?
Christian hedonism...
Christians totally enjoying being in God's presence.
Makes sense to me.
I guess....

ICorinthians13 66F
617 posts
5/26/2008 11:13 am
    Quoting aneleh:
    hi...i'm back.

    but if the definition is as you say here:
    Christian hedonism...
    Christians totally enjoying being in God's presence.
    Then I'm game...
Yeah, it kinda threw me, too, when I first heard it.
The worship minister I spoke to said he got it out of a book, so it doesn't surprise me that there'd be a website. Thanks for the info! I'll look into that!


aneleh 67F
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5/25/2008 8:08 pm

 hi...i'm back.

but if the definition is as you say here:
Christian hedonism...
Christians totally enjoying being in God's presence.
Then I'm game...


aneleh 67F
Ask me for a photo

5/25/2008 7:39 pm

 I thought that I'd heard that phrase before when I saw your title so I did a search. Do you know that there is a website called that? at the 'org'.

There is a quote there from C.S. Lewis which says: “If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.” ‒ C.S. Lewis

Since a hedonist is one who devoted to gaining maximum pleasure or happiness, I'm still not sure about that as a Christian. My focus, my devotion, should be to HIM...not what I get out of it. What I get out of it is icing but not the focus.

Dunno...thats just my thinking...




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